A woman passes by the Twin Lakes Laundromat on North Rancho Drive Thursday Aug. 29, 2019. Metro Police say a woman was bludgeoned to death at the laundromat after calling police to report a man carrying a sledgehammer outside the business.
Published Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019 | 8:35 a.m.
Updated Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019 | 2:08 p.m.
Clinton Taylor
A woman was bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer today at a central valley laundromat, and a suspect was in custody in what appeared to be a random attack, according to Metro Police.
The woman called 911 about 5 a.m. to report a suspicious man toting the weapon outside the business in the 1000 block of Rancho Drive, near Washington Avenue, Lt. Ray Spencer said.
That's as much as she was able to say before the dispatcher heard screaming followed by a dead telephone line, Spencer said.
Police traced the cell phone to the business, where they found the victim and a man nearby carrying a bloody sledgehammer, Spencer said.
The suspect, Clinton Taylor, 36, was taken to the Clark County Detention Center and booked on a count of open murder, police said.
The victim was a customer at the laundromat and was the only person there about 30 minutes after the business opened, Spencer said. Her name has not yet been released.
