Las Vegas police: Man said ‘devil’ told him to kill someone before murder attempt

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A man facing an attempted murder charge allegedly told the victim “the devil wanted him to kill someone” before he tried to stab her, according to police documents.

On Aug. 21, shortly before 8 a.m., officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department responded to the 11000 block of Wedgebrook Street, near Las Vegas Boulevard and St. Rose Parkway, after a report of battery with a deadly weapon.

The caller told dispatch that she took a knife away from her cousin, later identified as Dhrexter Encarnacion, 22, because he was “hallucinating about demons,” according to an arrest report…

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