LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A state trooper stopped and released the Las Vegas man suspected of working as a hit man and killing four people hours after what detectives believe was his last murder, according to documents and videos the 8 News Now Investigators obtained.
Prosecutors filed three new open murder charges against Michael Coleman, 40, last week, the 8 News Now Investigators first reported. Officers arrested Coleman in May 2023 for what detectives said was his fourth and final murder in the series.
Carl Chester, Jr., 41, who himself was murdered in May, ordered Coleman to commit the murders in retaliation for not receiving his cut of PPP fraud money, police said. The Paycheck Protection Program was intended to help companies pay and retain employees during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic.
From May 2021 until February 2023, Coleman allegedly killed three men and one woman. He was also accused of injuring a bystander in one of the shootings.
