Police: NLV man unleashed vicious attack on roommates after being woken up

By Ricardo Torres-Cortez

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 | 8 p.m.

North Las Vegas Police arrived Friday morning at the two-story house near Ann Road and Decatur Boulevard to find four roommates.

Two of the men were punched, bound, handcuffed and their faces and mouths covered with duct tape, police said. One died and the other one was hospitalized.

The third roommate had hid in a closet after seeing that one of the two victims was "tied up, unconscious and bloody," police said.

The fourth roommate, 23-year-old Sean Thomas Szmborski, who is accused in the attacks of the first two men, told detectives that the victims "got what they (expletive) deserved," according to his arrest report.

Also according to the report:

First responders were called about 11:40 a.m. to the 4400 block of Nestos Valley Avenue, near Ann Road and Decatur Boulevard.

Arriving police found the 71-year-old homeowner in the living room. He had been punched, tied and handcuffed. His hands and face were covered with duct tape. The handcuffs were so tight around his hands that firefighters had to cut them.

He was taken to Centennial Hills Hospital where he was expected to survive.

The attacks started when Szymborski was woken up by "noises in the bathroom" coming from the 71 year old.

That's when Szymborkski "snapped," he told police.

In an upstairs room, police found the body of Peter Stebbins, 55. He died from asphyxia due to suffocation and manual strangulation, the Clark County coroner's office said.

Szymborski told police he kicked open the door of the bedroom where Stebbins was sleeping before punching the man into unconsciousness.

He then pepper sprayed him, handcuffed him, also put duct tape on his mouth, around his head and bound his legs with clothing and a towel. He topped his head with a trash can.

The men kept "messing with me and picking on me," Szymborski told police. "They got what they (expletive) deserved." He didn't expand on how the men bothered him.

Symborski, who was arrested on charges of first-degree murder, one count of domestic battery with substantial bodily harm and two counts of first-degree kidnapping, told police he planned the attack and the men did not fight back.

The mother of the roommate who hid in the closet called police on behalf of her son to tell police about the attack. Her son, who texted his mother, described Symborkski as "schizo" and was afraid he would hear his voice if he called police.