Published Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017 | 9:56 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017 | 4:25 p.m.
Brandon Coristine
A woman was fatally stabbed overnight in the east valley after an argument over a cellphone, according to Metro Police.
Brandon Coristine, 29, was arrested after a brief standoff with officers and was booked at the Clark County Detention Center on a count of murder, police said.
Officers were called at 12:02 a.m. today to the 5900 block of Whitney Avenue, near Boulder Highway, where they found a woman gravely wounded, police said. The woman, whose name has not been released, died at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.
Coristine, whom authorities allege stabbed the woman over an argument about a cellphone, fled to a nearby location where officers took him into custody after a standoff, police said.
Coristine was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday morning.
Further details were not immediately available.
