Police: Stalker made good on death threat

      The death threat was straight forward enough.
      After months of getting hang-up telephone calls, after his car tires had been slashed and threatening little notes had been left on his windshield, the letter stated simply that if Charles Redmond didn't leave his wife and 2-year-old daughter, then he would have to die, his family members say.
      On Monday, the threat was made good, and Redmond died from a .38 caliber slug in his back. Police say he died outside an apartment complex on West Reno Avenue. When police went to question the woman they believed had stalked Redmond, they found the young woman dead in her apartment with a gunshot wound to her head.
     

Charles Redmond: Had wife and 2-year-old daughter

"I think the thing that makes me hurt the most is that this happened by his car, and that he had crawled from his car to the gate and to know that he was crawling to get help, but nobody was there to help him, and I'm laying at home asleep and not knowing that my son is dying," said his mother, Jenai Redmond.
      A former kickboxing champion who stood more than 6 feet tall, the Las Vegas limousine driver didn't fear many people, according to his mother. She said her son's physical prowess was so impressive that movie star Sylvester Stallone flew him to California two years ago for a screen test.
      Yet Redmond feared a woman police describe as a diminutive 21-year-old stripper that her son met after she propositioned him at Caesars Palace in January. In the few months since, the woman apparently had turned his family's life upside down.
      Although police say they have the woman's work card, which lists Glitter Gulch as her employer, and though she listed Cheetah's, another exotic club, as her employer as recently as this month, she still has not been positively identified by the coroner's office.
      Redmond met the woman, his mother said, while driving his limousine. Though she propositioned her son, Jenai Redmond maintains that all he offered was his friendship.
      "And she claimed she fell in love with him," she added.
      She showed it in violent ways.
      In June, Redmond said the tires of her son's car were slashed and the word "bitch" was scratched into the paint. At various other times, "voodoo packages" that contained hair were left on his car. She said Redmond called police and filed a report.
      "At that time, he stated that he had the relationship with her from the first of the year to April," said Las Vegas homicide Lt. Wayne Petersen. "And since that time, he had been receiving threatening phone calls at home, at work, and he had received notes and letters on his car."
      According to Redmond's mother, the woman's stories became more outlandish. She claimed she was carrying Redmond's baby, then she said she had a miscarriage. She also said she had an abortion and wanted Redmond to pay her hospital bill.
      Three weeks ago, Redmond got the death threat.
      By that time, though, he and his wife had been looking for a new home, hoping to find a haven from the harassment. Redmond's mother said they planned to move in two weeks.
      He also had begun to consider legal help. Petersen said police found information in his car Monday about how to get protective orders through the court system.
      A protective order might have helped, said Abbi Silver, Clark County chief deputy district attorney.
      "You can do that and also do everything possible to avoid any kind of contact," said Silver, who has dealt with numerous stalking cases, mostly involving men who threaten women.
      Police believe Redmond finished work driving a limousine at the MGM Grand around 12:30 a.m. then drove to the woman's Reno Avenue apartment.
      Jenai Redmond thinks it was a final appeal to get this woman out of his life. She remembers how he was convinced that a similar appeal made a few weeks earlier had worked. So she thinks that maybe he thought he would try again.
      "I think he went to talk to her to tell her to quit, to please leave him and his family alone," she said.