Review Journal
August 9, 2015
A fatal stabbing outside a Walgreens on Wednesday night followed stalking and a death threat from a man who had been romantically linked to the slain woman, according to a Las Vegas police report.
The attack was caught on the pharmacy’s surveillance cameras.
Leonard Woods, 46, and Josie Kate Jones, 41, of Las Vegas, had been in a relationship for nine years and lived together “on and off,” Jones’ teenage daughter told Metro detectives in the arrest report.
The daughter, 15, also said Woods had threatened her and her mother plus a younger sibling, telling them that he was going to kill them and burn their house, according to the report. He told Jones numerous times that “he would hurt her if she tried to leave him.”
The daughter told police she and Jones went in the store to buy juice after the girl’s cheerleader practice.
Surveillance video, Metro said, shows Woods driving up to the Walgreens parking lot, 4905 Tropicana Ave., near the intersection of Decatur Boulevard, about 8:15 p.m., a minute or so after Jones and her daughter got there.
Woods is then seen hiding between the SUV Jones drove and another vehicle then jumping out at Jones as she tried to get back into her car, police said. Jones called out Woods right before the attack, the girl told police.
She also said she thought Woods was only shaking her mother, the report said, before realizing Woods was stabbing her as he repeatedly yelled “b—-.”