Coroner IDs 40-year-old man stabbed to death in east Las Vegas field

The Clark County coroner’s bureau has identified a antheral who was fatally stabbed Friday successful an eastbound Las Vegas field.

He was 40-year-old Benjamin Orleans, the coroner’s bureau said. His decease was ruled a homicide owed to a stab coiled of the chest.

About 5 p.m. Friday, constabulary were called to the 2700 artifact of East Cedar Avenue, adjacent Bonanza Road and Eastern Avenue, aft receiving a study of the stabbing successful an unfastened field, the Metropolitan Police Department has said.

Police arrived and attempted “life-saving measures,” Metro said, but Orleans died astatine the scene.

Investigators judge the 40-year-old was successful an statement with different man, who past stabbed him. The suspected slayer fled the scene, constabulary said.

It was unclear Monday if constabulary person identified a fishy successful Orleans’ death.

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