Details emerge in fatal stabbing case
A man accused of stabbing a woman to death in a residential hotel room and stealing her car told police he committed the crime and felt terrible for her family, according to a Las Vegas police report.
Jason Garcia, 40, was charged with murder and grand larceny in the Monday slaying of 30-year-old Melissa Brink.
According to Garcia's statements to police, he and Brink, his girlfriend, were in his room at Budget Suites, 2219 N. Rancho Drive, at Lake Mead Boulevard, when he attempted to have sex with her.
She refused. He "felt she was seeing someone else and was leaving him," the report states Garcia told detectives. Brink had recently forced Garcia to move out of her home, he told police.
Garcia told police he took a box cutter from a table and put it to his own throat, but then suddenly stabbed Brink several times in the neck. He considered calling paramedics, but chose not to, he told police.
He told police he covered Brink's body with a blanket, took her Pontiac Grand Am and drove to Pahrump, where a friend took the car to be sold for parts.
On Tuesday, Garcia was found on the side of the road by a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper, who booked him at the Nye County Detention Center.
When the trooper asked Garcia why he was on the side of the road, Garcia said, "You know who I am, I'm the guy on TV that you are looking for," according to the report.
He then was interviewed by Las Vegas police detectives, arrested, and booked at the Clark County Detention Center on Wednesday, the report stated.
According to the report, Garcia told police he felt sorry for Madison, Brink's 6-year-old daughter, and Brink's parents.
Garcia told police he had ended Brink's life and his own in a fit of rage.
