Las Vegas man says he killed over dislike of sex offenders, report says
A Las Vegas man told his neighbor he killed two homeless people behind a central-valley swap meet because one of them was a sex offender, court documents show.
“The neighbor explained he had been sexually assaulted as a child and took offense to sex offenders,” 32-year-old Michael Thompson’s arrest report said.
Prosecutors charged Thompson with two counts of murder Thursday in the Dec. 26 shooting deaths of Rhonda Ballow, 27, and Alfred Wilhelm, 53, court records show. Thompson remained in Clark County Detention Center on Friday evening.
Detectives learned that a woman’s neighbor told her he killed a man and a woman behind the swap meet on the 2900 block of West Washington Avenue, near Rancho Drive, according to the arrest report.
The neighbor told the woman he killed the man because he was a sex offender and killed the woman because she refused to leave, the report said.
Nevada sex offender registry information shows Wilhelm was convicted of first-degree rape in Hawaii in April 1984.
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In the past year I have heard of a lot of SO who were killed only because some one found them on the registry. One was just in the next county from me. And the guys who killed him admitted it was because they found out from the registry that he was a SO. This government hit list needs to end!!
I think it is a hate crime in florida. needs to be look at.
Every time a S.O is identified on the PUBLIC REGISTRY-is murdered a law suit should be filed against the state, case in point if I posted a picture on a telephone post of a guy who was gay- he was singled out by the public picture- murdered for it, I would be arrested-prosecuted!