Jesús Ayala of Las Vegas allegedly committed a brutal assault with a friend in August. He laughed maniacally on camera as he drove another vehicle off the road in a stolen car, then mowed down 64-year-old former police chief Andreas Probst.
A new criminal complaint filed on January 19 indicates that this gruesome bloodshed may not have been Ayala’s first. Another victim came forward and accused Ayala of crimes that occurred in June 2023.
“Recently, we realized that [Ayala] Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said in a statement, “He is suspected of having been involved in an attempted murder and stabbing incident, so we have charged him with related crimes.”
Said KSNV-TV.
Months before Ayala’s alleged assault in August, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department received a report on June 27 of a stabbing victim who had entered the University of Southern Nevada Medical Center with multiple cuts to the torso and ear.
report KVVU-TV.
Hospital records show the victim was taken to the hospital by his roommate with multiple stab wounds to his face and another stab wound to his back.
The victim told investigators at the time that two men ambushed her with brass knuckles, brutally assaulted her, and left her on the ground without robbing her. A bloody knife was later found near the scene of the attack.
The victim later revealed in an interview with police that the male suspect first accused him of stealing something and then five people came and started attacking him.
Witnesses admitted to police on June 28 that five people, ostensibly under the age of 18, took part in an “extremely violent” attack on the victim. The witness added that the victim would definitely have died if the attack continued.
Ayala was later identified by a witness as one of the “big buddies” involved in the brutal June attack.
Cellphone records cited by police show Ayala was at the scene of the attack at the time of the stabbing. report K.S.N.V.
A knife found at the crime scene was reportedly not returned with a “proper heraldic match” to Ayala, but future DNA testing could confirm who did the stabbing. .
The victim ultimately identified Ayala as her attacker from a photo lineup on September 19, 2023.
Ayala is scheduled to appear in Clark County Justice Court on February 28 for a preliminary hearing on the new attempted murder charge.
“Mr. Ayala has a right to court, a right to a good lawyer, a right to cross-examine witnesses, a right to present evidence on his behalf, but at the end of the day, we There is a jury system, and the jury in the courthouse will decide whether he is guilty or not guilty,” Wolfson told KSNV. “We are very confident in the strength of our case and very confident that justice will be served for these victims.”
“We charged him with something pretty serious, which means open murder, but you can’t get much more serious than that. And now we’re charging him with attempted murder,” Wolfson said. added.
Ayala’s other trial begins on November 12th.
Blaze News previously reported that Ayala was indicted by a grand jury in October on charges of murder with a deadly weapon. Attempted murder using a deadly weapon. Battery with a deadly weapon resulting in great bodily harm. There were also two charges of failing to stop at the scene of a fatal accident. The charges were enhanced because Probst, a former police chief in Bell, California, was an elderly man.
Ayala and co-defendant Jazamir Keyes also face felony charges of burglary, use of a deadly weapon, three counts of grand larceny of a motor vehicle, and three counts of possession of a stolen vehicle.
Duo seems to have
photographed ourselves On Aug. 14, he drove his white sedan off the road and then targeted Probst for murder. Ayala is believed to have been behind the wheel at the time.
In the video, one of the assailants can be heard asking the other, “Are you ready?”
The other one laughed and replied, “Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Hit him!”
The two continued to run over Probst, leaving his crumpled, bleeding body on the roadside.
The vehicle Ayala allegedly used to kill Probst was found less than 10 minutes from the accident scene with blood stains on the windshield.
After killing Probst, Ayala and his compatriots allegedly stole another vehicle and crashed the vehicles for fun near a shopping plaza.
Police found another video on Ayala’s cellphone that allegedly shows the two ramming a 72-year-old man with a bicycle and then laughing loudly. The other cyclist survived the attack.
Ayala is not eligible for the death penalty, but could face up to life in prison.
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