Crime · Downtown Las Vegas
Fatal Arts District bar stabbing in Las Vegas: suspect extradited from Texas
A 40-year-old man accused in a September fatal stabbing outside a Downtown Las Vegas bar was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Thursday.
November 13, 2026 at 7:04 AM · Vegas Support Center
A 40-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing a 48-year-old man outside a Downtown Las Vegas bar in September has been extradited from Texas to Nevada, according to Clark County Detention Center records. He was booked into the jail on Thursday on a warrant for open murder and battery with a deadly weapon, and he is being held without bail.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said the attack occurred in the early morning hours of Sept. 26 outside the Cork and Thorn at 70 W. Imperial Ave. in the Arts District. According to an arrest report, the two men had argued inside the bar, and a witness told police the dispute appeared to be over one man sitting in the other's reserved seating area.
Police said the 40-year-old suspect was removed from the bar and a security worker reported hearing him say he needed to beat the other man because he felt disrespected. Surveillance video showed the 48-year-old man leaving the bar at 2:49 a.m., when the suspect and another man approached him.
According to police, surveillance footage showed the 48-year-old man punching the suspect's acquaintance while the suspect pulled a folding knife from his back pocket. Police said the suspect then stepped forward and stabbed the victim once in the neck, causing him to fall immediately, before trying to stab him a second time.
While the victim was on the ground, the suspect's acquaintance kicked him in the head, police said. The attacker left before officers arrived, and medical personnel took the injured man to University Medical Center, where he later died.
Detectives identified the 40-year-old man as a suspect partly because he had scanned his identification before entering the bar. The FBI located him in the Dallas area last month and booked him into the Tarrant County Jail in Texas to await extradition. He is scheduled to make his first appearance in Las Vegas Justice Court on Saturday morning.
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Source: News 3, Review-Journal