Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Delay granted in 2009 murder case

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A new trial date will be set next month for a man charged in a 2009 shooting in the east Las Vegas Valley that left one man dead and two others injured.

During a status check hearing Tuesday for Angel Santana in Clark County District Court, his attorney informed Judge James Bixler that both sides needed time to evaluate a psychological report completed recently on Santana.

Another hearing was set for Feb. 2, when a new trial date will be scheduled.

Santana’s trial has already been delayed three times while attorneys continued to gather evidence and testimony. The district attorney’s office indicated it would seek the death penalty in the case.

Santana faces multiple felony charges, including murder with a deadly weapon and two counts of attempted murder with a deadly weapon, following a shooting near Twain Avenue and Swenson Street on Feb. 1, 2009.

Emergency crews responding to the scene found three people in the road, suffering from gunshot wounds, police said. The three were taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, where 28-year-old Atsku Tse Tekle, of Las Vegas, died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Santana was arrested by Border Patrol agents in San Diego in June 2009, and has been incarcerated at the Clark County Detention Center since.

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