April 2, 2009 — 2332 North Las Vegas Boulevard
On the morning of April 2, 2009, North Las Vegas Police Detectives responded to a homicide at the North Las Vegas Detention Center.
Police say during a routine cell count, corrections officers discovered that 31-year-old Sergio Morales-Paredes was missing. Officers began looking for Morales-Paredes and found him under a mattress in his cell bleeding from the face and not breathing. Officers called for medical attention, but Morales-Paredes had already died.
Detectives booked 25-year-old Armando Munoz-Ornelas for one count of murder. Munoz-Ornelas was sharing a cell with Morales-Paredes at the time of the incident.
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