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A man suspected of killing three people at a southwest valley apartment 
complex briefly appeared before a judge Wednesday morning.

Spencer McDonald, 30, faces three counts of open murder and one count of 
attempted murder, court records show.

Police said that two people were killed inside an apartment at the Rancho 
De Montana complex, 9105 W. Flamingo Road, while a maintenance worker who 
responded to a welfare check at the apartment also was slain. Another 
maintenance worker was attacked, police said, and is expected to survive.

McDonald was arrested late Tuesday morning while carrying a “large mace or 
sledgehammer-type instrument,” police said.

During an initial appearance Wednesday, Justice of the Peace Rebecca Saxe 
ordered McDonald to be held without bail, although attorneys will have the 
chance to argue for him to be granted bail in the future. McDonald didn’t 
speak while he appeared in court wearing a dark blue Clark County 
Detention Center uniform.

“The court did find probable cause for your arrest in this case,” Saxe 
said.

Saxe said McDonald will be appointed an attorney before another judge can 
address his custody status. He was ordered to appear in court again on 
Monday.

Events unfolded Tuesday morning when officers were called to a report of a 
man bleeding from the head who said he was attacked at the complex on West 
Flamingo near South El Capitan Way, a Metropolitan Police Department 
statement said.

At a news briefing outside the complex, Metro homicide Lt. Jason Johansson 
told reporters that a man in his 30s — later identified to the public as 
McDonald — had been arrested after the three people were found slain 
inside an apartment, including a man in his 50s and a woman in her 80s.

Police from Summerlin Area Command were called about a possible stabbing 
of a person near the complex’s leasing office, Johansson said.

“As officers arrived on scene, they made contact with a 50-year-old 
Hispanic male who was a maintenance worker who appeared to be a victim,” 
Johansson said. “That person told (officers) that (the) man who stabbed 
him was located in the courtyard directly behind the leasing office.”

Police soon learned that “the suspect ran through the leasing office and 
out toward Flamingo Road,” he said. “Officers who were responding made 
contact with him and he was taken into custody.”

Officers reached the apartment “where unfortunately they located the 
deceased remains of a female and two males” who appeared to have been 
murdered, and the department’s homicide unit was contacted, he said.

The worker who survived was attacked at the door and able to flee to the 
leasing office, but the first worker died in the apartment, he said.

The bodies of the female and the other male killed there were in one of 
the unit’s bedrooms, he said.

While police were unsure about the victims’ relationship to the suspect, 
they do believe that they were related and that they possibly lived 
together in the apartment, Johansson said Tuesday.

Contact Katelyn Newberg at knewberg@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-0240. 
Follow @k_newberg on Twitter.

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