The knife-wielding suspect who stabbed a random victim to death on the streets just north of downtown Las Vegas has revealed that smoking phencyclidine (PCP) before the attack put him in a paranoid state.
According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) Kenwonn Montgomery admitted to smoking hallucination-inducing “sherms” and drinking alcohol before fatally stabbing Joseph Kirkling on December 18.
After the LVMPD arrested him, Montgomery told officers Kirkling had started swinging and that he “had to defend himself and continued stabbing the victim to keep a crowd of people back.”
thought the crowd “were there to jump him”
Montgomery said he thought the crowd “were there to jump him.” Newly obtained court documents after Montgomery appeared for an initial appearance Tuesday at Las Vegas Justice Court reveal the defendant’s charges of one count of open murder with a deadly weapon, and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
According to News3 Las Vegas, Montgomery’s drug-induced rampage began when he got into an argument with his mother and “began swinging the knife” at her.
The report further details that the argument escalated with the mother yelling, “please don’t kill me” and Montgomery’s brother getting involved and having the knife swung at him.
As Montgomery was “chasing his brother down the street, an individual untrusted to anything, just an innocent walking down the street, caught the suspect’s attention,” stated LVMPD Homicide Lt. Robert Price.
That individual, Kirkling, was taken to University Medical Center where he later died from multiple stab wounds.
