Published Wednesday, June 20, 2018 | 1:12 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, June 20, 2018 | 2:28 p.m.
Demetrick Roberson
Soon after discovering the victim’s body inside her apartment, detectives began piecing together a profile of a possible suspect, a man only known to them as “D,” an “ex-cop,” who drove nice cars, and who was having an affair with the woman.
On Monday, 11 days after Patricia Jones was found shot in the head, and left lying face up with her skirt pulled up, in the 5800 block of West Lake Mead Boulevard, police had “D” in handcuffs, according to an arrest report.
While denying involvement in the killing, Demetrick Roberson, 42, showed no emotion that the woman he’d been seeing had been slain, police said.
But by this time, police had gathered evidence that suggested the opposite. She told multiple people the night of the slaying that she was seeing “D,” and his phone pinged him near her apartment at the same time a witness reported arguing followed by a gunshot, according to the report.
Roberson refused to take a lie detector test, police said. He is being held without bond at the Clark County Detention Center on one count of murder with a deadly weapon, jail logs show.
After the crime scene was discovered June 7, detectives learned that Jones had recently started seeing Roberson, a married man, who’d been irate about a week earlier that she published a photo of them on Facebook, kissing, according to the report.
Jones told multiple people that she would be seeing Roberson the night of her death, which is as much as he admitted in an interview with detectives, police said.
“My boyfriend is almost here. I will catch up with you tomorrow,” Jones wrote in a text.
Police later learned that Roberson was an armed security guard who worked for a private company.
He also was an ex-military police officer who had been court-martialed and convicted on larceny of munitions, police said. His security job weapon, police believe, could be the gun used to kill Jones, according to the report.
Before refusing to take a polygraph exam, Roberson told detectives he “did not kill Patricia Jones, but he could not prove he did not kill her,” according to the report.
