UPDATE: Officials from the LVMPD Friday corrected their original release which connected Gonzalez to two homicides. One of the homicides they listed was the incorrect incident. This article has been corrected to reflect the right incident.
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A man faces two open murder charges following two January shootings in the Las Vegas valley, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
Jesus Gonzalez, 42, was identified as the suspect in two different downtown homicides. He was taken into custody on Feb. 7 and later re-booked with an additional charge on Feb. 16.
On Jan. 8, police responded to a home on the 200 block of North 17th Street where they say a woman had been shot. Investigators determined the woman, identified as Ashleigh Louise Sigearo, lived at the residence. Sigearo was pronounced dead at the scene.
The next day, on Jan. 9, police were alerted to a man laying in a street on the 1800 block of Franklin Avenue. First responders determined that the man had been shot and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Detectives said the man, identified as Jose Antonio Soto, 39, was chased down the street by a suspect, later determined by investigators to be Gonzalez, and shot.
Gonzalez faces two charges of open murder with a deadly weapon and one charge of burglary with a deadly weapon.
