In the early morning hours of December 2, a 36-year-old Las Vegas man walked into a 7-Eleven near Eastern Avenue and Tropicana Avenue and made a chilling confession to the store clerk: he had just killed his father. What followed was a disturbing homicide investigation that has raised troubling questions about mental health, domestic disputes, and the pattern of family violence in the Las Vegas valley.
Edwin Lora was arrested and charged with open murder with a deadly weapon after he allegedly shot his father, Edgar Dwight Davidson, multiple times in the head at their shared residence in the 2200 block of East Reno Avenue, according to Las Vegas Review-Journal. The case has drawn attention not only for its tragic outcome but for Lora’s bizarre statements to police, including his claim that he is “Jesus” and that his father had “killed him in a previous life.”
A Timeline of Violence
The sequence of events began around 1:05 a.m. on December 2, when Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department received reports of possible gunshots near Jeffreys Street and Reno Avenue. Officers responded but were unable to locate any evidence of a shooting or victims at that time, as reported by 8 News Now. About an hour later, the same caller contacted dispatch again to request a welfare check after witnessing an argument between a man and a woman in a nearby driveway.
It wasn’t until just after 5:00 a.m. that the full horror of the situation became clear. A 7-Eleven employee called police to report that a man had entered the store and stated he had killed his father, according to FOX5 Vegas. When officers arrived and spoke with Lora, he made the statement: “Jesus, Dad is God and shot him three times in the head.”…