1 dead, 1 injured in east Las Vegas stabbing

One person is dead and a second was critically injured after an apparent dispute between the two resulted in a stabbing Thursday morning in the east Las Vegas Valley, police said.

The attack was reported just after 6:40 a.m. in the 5100 block of East Tropicana Avenue, near South Nellis Boulevard, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Steve Riback said in a briefing to reporters near the scene Thursday.

Riback said 911 dispatchers received several calls about two people down in the area near the street.

Arriving patrol officers found one person unresponsive and the other suffering from a large laceration. Officers provided medical aid before paramedics arrived, but the unresponsive person was pronounced dead on the scene, Riback said. The other person was taken to a hospital.

Preliminary details from the investigation led police to believe the death and injury were the result of an altercation between the two, according to Riback. He said there were no other suspects.

Police didn’t release the name, gender or age of the person who died or the hospitalized person.

An investigation was continuing.

Contact Megan Howard at mhoward@reviewjournal.com. Follow her on X at @meganmhxward. Digital content producer Tony Garcia contributed to this report.