Police probe death at motel near downtown Las Vegas

Published Tue, Jun 5, 2018 (7:03 p.m.)

Updated Tue, Jun 5, 2018 (9:24 p.m.)

Metro Police are probing the death of a person whose body on Tuesday afternoon was seen being dragged by a man from a motel room near downtown Las Vegas, Lt. Ray Spencer said.

As of Tuesday night, the death was not being investigated as a homicide, Spencer said. "We do not have anything as far as if there was a criminal act or if it was natural causes."

Spencer said an investigation by the Clark County Coroner's Office should shed light on the circumstances of the person's death. As far as calling the death suspicious earlier, it was due to a man seen dragging the person's body from a room, he said. "We're nowhere close to calling this a homicide."

Officers and medics responded shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday to the Desert Star motel, 1210 Las Vegas Blvd. South, south of Charleston Boulevard, Lt. Grant Rogers said.

That man who dragged the body was detained and detectives were interviewing him, Spencer said. The decedent, who was described as a woman, but whose gender had not been confirmed, had minor facial trauma, he added.

Further details were not immediately available.

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