LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas man spoke with 8 News Now about the moment he witnessed a stabbing in the central valley that left one man dead.
Las Vegas police: Knife-wielding man kills passerby in street
“I just started recording,” Roberto Gutierrez said. “And the next thing I knew, we saw a knife.”
Gutierrez recounted the terrifying attack he caught on camera on Thursday, near Owens Avenue and H Street in the Historic Westside neighborhood.
Man accused in deadly Las Vegas stabbing of passerby has criminal history
“I saw the guy swinging the knife,” he told 8 News Now. “And then I just started looking around and saw people calling the police.”
The man captured on video with that knife was identified by police as 46-year-old Kenwon Montgomery.
Montgomery was convicted of robbery with the use of a deadly weapon after robbing some Mailboxes Etc. stores in 2001. According to the Nevada Department of Corrections, he was sentenced to 24 to 60 months for robbery, plus a consecutive 24 to 60 months for use of a deadly weapon. He was released on parole in October 2005.
Montgomery then served time again for an armed robbery at a grocery store in 2006, according to court records.
Montgomery was visiting his mother near Owens Avenue and Weaver Drive on Thursday afternoon and began threatening her with a knife, according to police…