Woman arrested in stabbing death outside Hawaiian Tropic Zone
A 20-year-old California woman is in custody this morning in the stabbing death of a man on Las Vegas Boulevard South on Sunday morning.
Las Vegas police were called about 12:02 a.m. to a fight in front of Hawaiian Tropic Zone. They found a Hispanic man bleeding from what appeared to be a stab wound.
The man, whose identity was not released, was taken to University Medical Center where he later died from his wounds.
Detectives arrested Desiray Ortiz, 20, of La Verne, Calif., on charges of murder with a deadly weapon.
Homicide detectives learned a group of people from California got into a fight with employees of the business before the stabbing occurred, police said.
Contact reporter Maggie Lillis at mlillis@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0279.
