Investigators said two men in their 70s died Thursday after a stabbing in the southwest valley and a later fall from a Strip parking garage.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — A fight between two roommates in southwest Las Vegas ended in a deadly stabbing and the suspect’s death on the Las Vegas Strip, police said Friday, after officers were called first to a home near Mountain’s Edge and then to a resort parking garage.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said the case began late Thursday afternoon inside a home in the 8200 block of Cupertino Heights Way and quickly spread across the valley. Investigators said the two men, both in their 70s, argued inside the residence before one of them grabbed a knife and stabbed the other multiple times. Minutes later, relatives told police the suspect had called and said he was headed to a resort property on Las Vegas Boulevard to take his own life, setting off a second police response on the Strip.
Police said dispatchers received the first report at about 5:28 p.m. on March 26. Patrol officers responded to the southwest valley home and found a man inside suffering from several apparent stab wounds. Medical personnel were called to the scene, but the victim was pronounced dead there. Lt. Robert Price said during a media briefing carried by local television outlets that the investigation began after a caller reported a neighbor had been stabbed. Officers entered the house, found the wounded man and tried to piece together what had happened inside the home. Investigators later determined the victim and suspect lived together and that the violence followed an argument.
A second call reached police at about 6:03 p.m., according to the department’s news release. A family member of the victim told dispatchers that the suspect had contacted them, said he had killed the victim and was on the way to a resort property on Las Vegas Boulevard to die by suicide. Police then sent patrol officers and a drone team to search the area. The department said the drone pilot located a man matching the suspect’s description on top of a parking garage in the 3700 block of South Las Vegas Boulevard. Local coverage placed that area near major Strip resorts. Officers moved in and began giving verbal commands, police said, but the man jumped from the structure before they could take him into custody.
Both deaths remained under investigation Friday morning as police worked to confirm the timeline and gather evidence from the home and the parking garage. The Clark County coroner is expected to release the identities of the two men and determine the official cause and manner of death. Police have not publicly said how long the men had lived together or what sparked the argument that turned violent. They also have not released details about whether anyone else was inside the home at the time of the stabbing, whether there had been prior calls to the residence or whether the suspect left in the victim’s vehicle after the attack. Those details may come later as detectives continue interviews and review physical evidence.
The case unfolded in two sharply different settings: a residential block in the southwest valley and one of the busiest tourist corridors in the region. In the first scene, patrol officers found a homicide victim inside a house near South Cimarron Road and West Mountains Edge Parkway. In the second, police tracked the suspect to a multi-level garage along Las Vegas Boulevard, where a drone helped narrow the search in a crowded area. The department said officers requested medical help immediately after the fall, but the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene. The use of the drone became a key part of the response, allowing officers to find the suspect quickly after the family member’s warning call.
Police said the homicide investigation remains active, and detectives are asking anyone with information to contact the department. The next public step is expected to be identification by the Clark County coroner, which will formally name both men and provide more detail about how they died. Until then, investigators say the case stands as a fatal argument between roommates that began at a home just before 5:30 p.m. Thursday and ended less than an hour later at a Strip parking garage.
Author note: Last updated March 27, 2026.