Clark County coroner IDs man killed in Monday stabbing

By KIMBER LAUX LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

June 10, 2014 - 11:16 am

The man killed in a Monday morning stabbing was identified Tuesday by the Clark County Coroner’s office.

Devone Blair, 37 of Las Vegas, was found with apparent stab wounds just after 3:20 a.m. at a home behind a business in the 800 block of East Sahara Avenue, near Maryland Parkway.

Las Vegas police arrested 55-year-old James Robert Pete in connection with the stabbing.

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