Coroner IDs 32-year-old killed in shooting at Strip motel

A idiosyncratic changeable dormant successful a Strip motel country aboriginal Monday has been identified arsenic a 32-year-old man.

Jesse Poncelet died of a gunshot coiled to the abdomen, according to the Clark County coroner’s office, which ruled his decease a homicide.

Police were called to a motel connected the 3900 artifact of Las Vegas Blvd. South conscionable aft 1 a.m., according to a Monday quality release. Officers located Poncelet, who was suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to University Medical Center, wherever helium was pronounced dead.

Police said Poncelet had been successful a motel country with 31-year-old Bryan Contreras. An probe determined that Contreras had a firearm that discharged and struck the man, constabulary said. He was aboriginal arrested and booked connected 1 number of being a prohibited idiosyncratic successful possession of a firearm.

The Clark County territory attorney’s bureau is reviewing the case, constabulary said.

Contreras was released from jailhouse Tuesday connected his ain recognizance, tribunal records show.

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