'Something bad happened': Man strangled wife to death during argument about where to raise their daughter, police say

A Nevada antheral is down bars aft strangling his woman during an statement astir wherever to rise their toddler, Silver State constabulary say.

Roelmer Sanchez-Garrido, 38, stands accused of 1 number of unfastened murder successful transportation with the decease of Vanesa Rodrigues-Valdes, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

The underlying incidental occurred during the aboriginal greeting hours connected Tuesday, astatine a residence connected Esmeralda Avenue successful cardinal Las Vegas.

The suspect himself is believed to person made the 911 telephone astir 3 a.m. connected the nighttime successful question, according to an apprehension study obtained by Las Vegas-based NBC affiliate KSNV.

The suspect called asking exigency services for aesculapian assistance due to the fact that his woman was injured, according to instrumentality enforcement.

The antheral aboriginal clarified that the pistillate was not breathing, constabulary said. Paramedics arrived to find the suspect pacing backmost and distant successful the beforehand gait with his 2-year-old girl successful tow.

Inside the house, archetypal responders recovered Rodrigues-Valdes, whose property was not instantly available, lying connected the level with a broad implicit her look and body, according to the charging document.

Upon removing the blanket, paramedics saw aboriginal signs of rigor mortis on with bruising connected the woman's look and neck, constabulary said.

The woman's decease appeared unnatural, truthful paramedics called for police, authorities said. The archetypal serviceman soon arrived and agreed the decease looked suspicious owed to the marks connected the woman's neck, according to the constabulary report.

The serviceman past spoke with Sanchez-Garrido who said helium and his woman had been arguing astir taking their girl backmost to Cuba, constabulary said. The antheral allegedly said that during the statement "something atrocious happened."

"Sometime during that argument, it turned physical, resulting successful the decease of his wife," a constabulary spokesperson previously told KSNV.

Investigators besides spoke with a neighbour who said the mates worked together. Earlier that aforesaid day, the neighbour said the pistillate asked for assistance hiding the family's passports truthful that the antheral could not summation entree to them, according to instrumentality enforcement.

The neighbour went connected to elaborate astir the travel-related dispute, telling investigators the pistillate wanted to rise the couple's girl successful Cuba portion the antheral wanted to enactment successful the United States and enactment to marque much wealth for the family, constabulary said.

Another neighbour told investigators helium awoke astir 2 a.m. that nighttime to the dependable of idiosyncratic banging connected his window, according to the apprehension report. The neighbour past went to inspect the root of the sound and saw Sanchez-Garrido connected the different broadside of his information gate, helium said, but did not unfastened it. Still, the neighbour said, helium and the suspect spoke.

Sanchez-Garrido handed the neighbour 2 containers afloat of jewelry and telephone numbers of 2 household members, constabulary said. He besides reportedly said helium had done thing "very bad," the neighbour told police. Then, the suspect allegedly asked his neighbour to telephone 911.

The suspect was taken into custody and questioned astatine constabulary section headquarters, according to instrumentality enforcement.

During a custodial interview, Sanchez-Garrido again relayed the quality astir Cuba and the couple's daughter, constabulary said. At immoderate constituent amid the argument, helium became upset and grabbed the pistillate by the pharynx and squeezed, the suspect allegedly said. After that, helium did not retrieve what happened but adjacent saw that Rodrigues-Valdes had stopped breathing and that she fell to the ground, according to police.

The antheral said helium attempted to execute CPR connected the pistillate but that those attempts were unsuccessful, constabulary said. Sanchez-Garrido said that helium took a broad disconnected the sofa and covered the victim's assemblage truthful that the couple's girl would not spot what happened to her mother, according to the charging document.