A Las Vegas man videotaped himself and fatally shot a homeless person and seriously injured a man who was walking his dog in separate “exciting murder” attacks, police said.
Suspect Noah Green, 21, was in custody Wednesday after being booked on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, records show at the Clark County Jail. His arraignment was scheduled for Wednesday morning.
He is suspected of killing Brent Michael Lloyd, 48, on a sidewalk about 5 kilometers west of the Strip, just before dawn on July 13, police said.
Surveillance video in the neighborhood captured the murder of the sleeping homeless man, which helped lead detectives to the suspect, who lived in a nearby apartment complex, Las Vegas police Lt. Ray Spencer said.
After investigators attacked Green for Lloyd’s murder, they also linked him to a July 15 shooting in a park just a few blocks away. In that attack, a man was walking his dog when he was shot in the chest without warning, authorities said.
The dog’s owner was seriously injured and has not been identified.
“My opinion is that it appears to be an exciting murder,” Spencer told reporters Monday. “This person is a homeless person who is sleeping. There is no incident contact before. And the same with the man who is walking his dog after work.”
Police found video of both shots on Green’s phone, according to Spencer.
“The fact that he recorded it … he definitely saves it for his own use, to see personally in the future,” Spencer said.
Police began monitoring Green’s apartment Thursday night before arresting him after a brief foot chase Friday night, authorities said.
Green’s 9mm Glock pistol, the same type of weapon used to kill Lloyd, and his cell phone were exposed, police said.
“What we learned is that, Mr. Green, the phone in your possession showed the homeless person being killed without provocation and also showed the unprovoked shooting of the man walking his dog,” Spencer said. “The videos are absolutely disturbing.”
The Associated Press contributed
