- Colin Czech was seen by police eating his victim’s ear and eyeball.
A man has been charged with murder after getting into a fight and then biting parts of the victim’s face at a bus stop when police arrived at the scene.
Around 4:45 a.m. Sunday, Colin Czech, 31, was arrested on Las Vegas Boulevard after police received a report of two men fighting outside a business in the 1100 block.
When officers found the two men near the 300 block of Charleston Boulevard, one of them was unconscious and bleeding from the head.
Officers also found Czech kneeling on the ground next to the victim with “biological matter in his hair, mouth and clothing.” KLAS reported, citing documents.
He reportedly told officers that the victim had attacked him and that he was homeless, after officers saw him eating the other man’s ear and eyeball.
Colin Czech, 31, was arrested near the 300 block of Charleston Boulevard (pictured), Las Vegas, after getting into a fight with another man and eating part of his face. He has been arrested on charges of open murder.
Paramedics took the seriously injured victim, reportedly identified as Kenneth Brown, to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Brown had a large gash on part of his head and was missing an eye and an ear, according to documents obtained by 8 News Now investigators.
Czech had reportedly been “fading in and out of consciousness” while in police custody, as he told officers he had been awake for “five days straight” because “something was possessing him.”
The killer also told detectives he used his teeth to hurt the victim, adding that he “used his teeth to eat (the man’s) eyes and ears,” the documents revealed.
Czech was arrested on an open murder charge and booked in absentia into the Clark County Detention Center, they added.
He was scheduled to appear in court on Monday afternoon, but Justice of the Peace Rebecca Saxe said Czech was not brought to the hearing because he had been admitted to hospital.
Despite his absence, Saxe said he found probable cause for Czech’s arrest and ordered him held without bail following the gruesome crime.
Neither the prosecutor nor the defense attorney spoke during the brief hearing, the newspaper reported.
The judge has ordered Czech to appear in court on Wednesday.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office has not yet released the identity of the man who died before his body was mutilated.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office will likely conduct an autopsy to confirm the identification of the victim, as well as identify the cause and manner of death.
This is an ongoing investigation and anyone with information is urged to contact the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department by phone at 702-828-3521 or by email at homicide@lvmpd.com.
To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 702-385-5555.
