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Las Vegas woman charged with gunning down 3 roommates
ABC ^ | 12/23/2017 | AP

Posted on 12/24/2017 8:41:37 AM PST by Signalman

A Las Vegas woman is facing multiple murder charges Saturday in the shooting deaths of her three roommates, who lived in what authorities described as a "problem house."

Christine Sanchez, 47, is currently being held in a county jail on three counts of open murder with a deadly weapon. According to Las Vegas police, she had been in an ongoing dispute with her roommates. When the victims returned to the home Friday afternoon, all four got into an altercation.

It was at that point Sanchez pulled out a handgun and shot the trio multiple times, police said.

Responding officers found two men in one bedroom and a woman in a second bedroom. All of them were pronounced dead at the scene.

Their names were not released.

Police Lt. Dan McGrath told the Las Vegas Sun that seven to eight people may have been inside the house, which he described as a "crash house" where people came and went.


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KEYWORDS: crack; lasvegas; roommates
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1 posted on 12/24/2017 8:41:37 AM PST by Signalman
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To: Signalman

This is the first time I have heard the term “open murder.”


2 posted on 12/24/2017 8:44:34 AM PST by Sawdring
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To: Sawdring

It’s exactly the opposite of a closed murder.


3 posted on 12/24/2017 8:45:23 AM PST by Ueriah
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To: Signalman

So uncivilized .


4 posted on 12/24/2017 8:45:33 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Signalman

Darwinian theory at work.


5 posted on 12/24/2017 8:45:44 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: Signalman
Holy moly!

That woman looks like she should be boiling the scalps of white-eyes around the fire of an Apache camp.

I would NOT mess with her.

6 posted on 12/24/2017 8:47:06 AM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: Signalman
crash house = crack house.
7 posted on 12/24/2017 8:48:11 AM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Signalman

“Crash house” equals Drug Den???


8 posted on 12/24/2017 8:49:07 AM PST by goodnesswins (There were 1.41 MILLION NON Profit orgs in 2013 with $1.73 TRILLION in REVENUE)
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To: Sawdring

In the comments below the story someone asks “Exactly what is “open murder”?”

and the answer he got is “She didn’t shut the front door completely?”

Yep. That about sums up the brilliance of the term.


9 posted on 12/24/2017 8:49:17 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Signalman

‘Crash house”==’Crack house” all over Nevada.


10 posted on 12/24/2017 8:50:33 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Sawdring

A Nevada term in their laws.


11 posted on 12/24/2017 8:51:09 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: bagster

She’s got Elizabeth Warren’s cheekbones.


12 posted on 12/24/2017 8:53:48 AM PST by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Signalman

That’s a crack cocaine face.


13 posted on 12/24/2017 8:55:23 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: gundog
She’s got Elizabeth Warren’s cheekbones.

Haha. She sure does.

14 posted on 12/24/2017 8:58:26 AM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: Sawdring; Beowulf9

In Nevada, the prosecutors usually charge the crime of open murder. Open murder includes the crime of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and the lesser-included crimes of voluntary and involuntary manslaughter.

www.renonvlaw.com/criminal-defense/murder/

15 posted on 12/24/2017 8:58:49 AM PST by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ~~Appeasing evil is cowardice~~Francis is temporary. Hell is forever.)
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To: Sawdring
The term open murder (as far as I can find out at any rate):

A prosecutor may charge "Open Murder", which is a combination of First and Second Degree Murder, and the jury may determine the appropriate degree based on the proofs.

16 posted on 12/24/2017 8:59:04 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Signalman

—she had a previous murder case “dismissed”—

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/suspect-arrested-in-connection-with-triple-homicide-in-east-las-vegas/


17 posted on 12/24/2017 9:00:42 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: BlessedBeGod

Wow.

She’s screwed.


18 posted on 12/24/2017 9:05:23 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: dainbramaged

Meth seems more likely, but yeah, in that general space.


19 posted on 12/24/2017 9:11:57 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Signalman

“Murder with a Deadly Weapon”? Is it possible to commit murder with a weapon that’s not deadly? Politicians.


20 posted on 12/24/2017 9:30:48 AM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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