LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The brother of a Las Vegas man whose murder was captured in a viral video is calling for the killer to rot in prison.
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Joseph Kirkling, 53, was captured on video last week, Thursday, trying to avoid a knife-wielding man near H Street and Owens Avenue. He was stabbed multiple times and later died at a hospital, according to Las Vegas Metro police.
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Kirkling’s family wants the public to remember him as someone who put his family first and took care of his sick father. Not by the viral video which captured his last breaths on this earth.
“This a tough one, you know. This was murder,” Johnny Kirkling, who is Joseph’s brother, told 8 News Now. “Innocent people, walking down the street, and just get murdered? Really, is that what we’re doing in Nevada?”
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Johnny said he refuses to watch the video of his younger brother’s murder. Joseph was in the area at the time doing a favor for a relative.
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Police arrested 46-year-old Kenwonn Montgomery and charged him with open murder and assault with the use of a deadly weapon.
While speaking with police in an ambulance, Montgomery told an officer he was under the influence of “sherms,” documents said. A “sherm” is a cigarette or marijuana joint dipped in PCP, a hallucinogenic drug, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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Montgomery also told police he consumed three beers and “a couple of small bottles of tequila” that day and that he had never met nor seen Joseph before, documents said.
However, Johnny said Montgomery made a choice on that day…