Four young men bound, slain in Las Vegas home

Police say the victims had been tied up and that robbery may have been a motive.

The names of the victims had not been released as of this morning.

The men were believed to have been in their late teens or early 20s.

Police were called to the scene after a friend of the victims found the bodies when he went to the house about 6:30 p.m. Friday.

Homicide Sgt. Ken Hefner said officers believe robbery was the motive, but are not ruling anything out.

Three of the victims were found in the living room and a fourth was discovered elsewhere in the residence.

Hefner would not elaborate on how the men had been restrained or if they had any opportunity to fight back.

"All four of my friends live there," said a grief-stricken Jennifer Novak, who arrived for a visit but instead was greeted by a swarm of police officers and crime-scene tape preventing access to the house.

"It should blow people's minds to know something like this happened to these people," she said. "They were good people. They were not in a gang or anything like that."

Hefner said the interior of the home was "somewhat dilapidated," but he declined to say whether the residence was ransacked. He said there were no signs of a break-in.

Hefner said the person who found the bodies was at the home as late as midnight Thursday and there were no problems. The sergeant said it was too early in the investigation to tell when the young men were killed.

Neighbors said they often would see large buses sporting "hippie-style" paintings and California license plates parked in front of the home.

The last quadruple homicide in Las Vegas took place May 1, 1992, when rioting in the city following the first Rodney King trial verdicts was used to cover the slayings of Samantha Scotti, 24, Jermaine Woods, 19, Steven Walker, 19, and Lisa Boyer, 26.

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