Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

Metro releases video in hopes of identifying killer

Stabbing

Metro Police released this surveillance video that shows a stabbing that occurred June 21, 2012.

The image is anything but crystal clear and the action is lightning quick.

Still, Metro Police spokesman Bill Cassell says authorities hope something from the surveillance video released Monday by Metro will lead police to the person who last month walked up to Louis James Kim on a sidewalk near the Stratosphere and fatally stabbed him.

Video surveillance shows Kim, 54, walking the evening of June 21 on the sidewalk adjacent to the Stupack Community Center at 251 W. Baltimore Ave. As Kim approaches an alleyway, a suspect dressed in a dark-colored sweatshirt and black shorts is seen passing a few feet in front of Kim. The suspect then turns and attacks Kim before walking back to the alleyway.

Kim was transported to University Medical Center Trauma, where he was pronounced dead from a sharp force trauma wound.

Nothing was taken during the incident, and the attack may have been random, according to Metro Police. Surveillance video shows the suspect last seen walking in the alleyway across from the 7-Eleven at 200 E. Boston Ave.

Cassell didn’t discount the value of the video and the public’s ability to help in such instances; after all, it’s happened in the past for Metro.

A lot of people, he said, are recognizable to those who know them, even if there is not a clear image present. For example, a viewer might recognize certain body language or other mannerisms and help identify a person, even in a video of lesser quality, he said.

“That’s what we believe could happen here,” Cassell said.

Metro is urging anyone with information about the crime to call the LVMPD Homicide Section at (702) 828-3521 or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers at (702) 385-5555.

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