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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I’d like to see an upsurge of unlawful death suits filed by family members of SO victimized like this. That might get legislators to look into the wisdom of the registry.
someone in NV should find a personal injury lawyer for this guy’s family.
This is the reason to no longer need the Reg it killing pp how many more pp got to die before they stop this Reg in for all Florida wont do it that for sure i love for someone to show up at my door i got guns and lots of them i blow there head off if they come around my house.
This is another way for the govt to get rid of the “useless eaters” as they call us. Pit them against each other based on labels the govt gives you. Reminds me of hunger games.
Those who put out the registry information and encourage this bias need to also be held responsible
When states put out these lists of sor they know there are thousands of mentally unstable people who can’t wait to take out there anger on what they see is the sorse of there anger.so they are no worse than someone who sells a gun to someone knowing there unstable and will commit a crime with it. They are liable
Too bad this isn’t a Hate Crime.
Last time I checked, if I kill someone because they are of a certain class and/or group, they call it a hate crime.