Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Police: Video shows fatal stabbing outside Las Vegas pharmacy

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Leonard Ray Woods

Police say security video shows a 46-year-old man hiding between cars before fatally stabbing his estranged girlfriend outside a Las Vegas pharmacy hours before turning himself in.

Josie Jones was killed and her 15-year-old daughter witnessed the bloody attack about 8:20 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of a Walgreens in a shopping center southwest of the Las Vegas Strip.

A police report says the girl ran back into the pharmacy screaming for help.

Police say Leonard Ray Woods fled before surrendering to patrol officers downtown just after midnight.

Officer Larry Hadfield says the video is evidence and won't immediately be made public.

The daughter told police that Woods and Jones spent nine years together, but broke up last month after he was arrested on a lewdness charge.

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