A Las Vegas prostitute was killed during a $2,000 hotel sex session with an Army veteran client after he “lost his mind” and strangled her, police say.
Larissa Garcia, a 30-year-old mother, was killed at the Palms Resort on June 12, and suspect Jason Kendall, 35, turned himself in to police on June 28.
A police report seen by 8NewsNow detailed Kendall’s alleged motive for the horrific attack.
“Jason said Larissa asked him for additional payment and he ‘went into a rage,'” the documents say. “He punched her in the face and ‘choked’ her for ‘ten minutes’ and ‘then had sex with her.’ After having sex with Larissa, Jason said he ‘dragged her away from the door and left.’ After leaving the hotel, he called police to report an overdose.”
A man has turned himself in and allegedly confessed to fatally strangling a Las Vegas prostitute during a $2,000 session.
Jason Kendall (pictured), 35, turned himself in to police on June 28 and confessed to the murder of Larissa Garcia, 30, according to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police.
Kendall allegedly confessed to strangling Garcia on June 12. He is now being held without bail and faces charges of open murder, sexual assault and battery.
An anonymous person, who has not been identified as Kendall, called 911 and reported an overdose inside a hotel room.
Security responded to the call and found Garcia on the ground with a cut on his jaw.
First responders were under the impression Garcia was overdosing, so Metro Police were not initially called to the scene.
On June 12, Kendall called 911 to report an overdose inside a hotel room at the Palms Casino Resort (pictured), according to police documents.
Paramedics took Garcia to Spring Valley Hospital. Doctors detected no alcohol or drugs in his blood, immediately ruling out an overdose as a possible cause of death.
Instead, doctors suspected Garcia was the victim of an assault due to the injuries he sustained.
“Upon closer inspection … it appears she had been assaulted,” the nurse told the dispatcher about 15 minutes after Garcia arrived at the hospital. “We think it was an overdose, but she’s not responding to Narcan or any of those medications.”
“Do we have any suspicious information?” the operator asked the nurse.
“No, there was no one there and, as I said, it was an unknown person, an anonymous person,” the nurse said.
Garcia was declared brain dead and died in hospital a week after the incident at Palms.
Garcia’s mother, Kristie Pike (left), posted a photo of her and Garcia (right) when she was just a baby, as well as another photo of Garcia when she was a toddler. The comments were filled with words of love and support, and they called Garcia an angel.
Police discovered that Kendall had booked the room. They then met with the suspect at another hotel, where he refused to provide any information without a lawyer present.
Six days after the initial incident at Palms, a sexual assault trauma nurse reported that Garcia had been strangled and “possibly suffocated.”
Surveillance footage from the Palms shows Kendall meeting Garcia in the lobby around 4 p.m. An hour later, Kendall is seen leaving the hotel alone.
Detectives later located messages between Kendall and Garcia and a web history of Kendall viewing Garcia’s escort ad, according to the documents.
Garcia was a single mother of two children, her friends said. KTLAS. In a GoFundMe Organised by her friends, she is described as “a bright light in all of our lives, full of love and laughter”.
“We want to make sure Larissa has the beautiful and dignified send-off she deserves. A send-off that reflects the love and joy she brought into the world,” the caption reads.
Surveillance footage from the Palms shows Kendall meeting Garcia in the lobby around 4 p.m. An hour later, Kendall is seen leaving the hotel alone.
Six days after the initial incident at Palms, a sexual assault trauma nurse reported that Garcia had been strangled and “possibly suffocated.”
Kendall is an Army veteran, a source close to the pair told KTLA.
The suspect made his first court appearance on Saturday afternoon. He was ordered held without bail until his next court appearance, scheduled for Tuesday.
Garcia’s mother, Kristie Pike, posted a photo of her and Garcia when she was just a baby, as well as another photo of Garcia when he was a toddler. The comments were filled with words of love and support, and they called Garcia an angel.
