LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Prison authorities are investigating a suspected murder at High Desert State Prison. Inmate Fawaz Al-Zaid, 33, died Sunday, according to the Clark County coroner’s office.
While a spokesperson for the coroner said Al-Zaid’s cause and manner of death were pending Wednesday, multiple sources reached out to the 8 News Now Investigators about what they described as a suspected murder.
Al-Zaid began serving a three-to-nine-year prison sentence in Aug. 2024 for attempted murder with use of a deadly weapon and assault with a deadly weapon, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections…