A man has been charged with the murder of a single mother who was found unresponsive in a Las Vegas hotel room after anonymously calling police to report that she had overdosed, authorities said.
On June 28, Jason Kendall, 35, turned himself in to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, where he allegedly confessed to strangling and sexually assaulting Larissa Garcia, 30, police said in an arrest report cited by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
According to a press release, officers responded to Spring Valley Hospital on June 12 on a report of a woman who was the victim of a possible battery and taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Police said she had been found unresponsive in a hotel room along West Flamingo Road. On June 21, she was pronounced dead.
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