The Clark County coroner has determined a woman, whose death had been used to fuel a viral internet rumor about a serial killer targeting women in Las Vegas, died by suicide.
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Serial killer Samuel Little said he was driving through Las Vegas in 1993 when he met a woman in the Historic Westside, took her to a motel and strangled her.
Steve Garcia, 28, is facing felony counts of assault and misdemeanor counts of discharging a weapon in a public place in connection with the rock-throwing.
The woman says she was beaten, forced to eat lye, choked to the point of unconsciousness and bound at the wrists and ankles with a combination of zip ties and duct tape.
The pair was hospitalized after being pulled from a home in western Las Vegas Tuesday morning but later died of their injuries, the fire department said.