In the early morning hours of Saturday, July 19, 2014, the body of 34-year-old Hispanic female Maricela Faurrieta-Suarez was discovered on a street in a quiet Las Vegas neighborhood. A passerby spotted her just before 6 a.m. in the 1200 block of Fairchild Street, near Brookman Elementary School, and alerted the authorities. When Las Vegas Metropolitan Police arrived at the scene, they found Faurrieta-Suarez had sustained a fatal gunshot wound to the head.
Investigators quickly determined
that her death was a homicide. Evidence at the scene, or lack thereof, suggested to detectives that Faurrieta-Suarez had not been killed on Fairchild Street. They believed she was slain at another location and her body was later left on the residential street. Her death marked the 71st homicide in Metro's jurisdiction for that year.
Despite the initial investigation and the passage of time, the murder of Maricela Faurrieta-Suarez remains unsolved. Law enforcement has not publicly identified any suspects in connection with her killing, and no arrests have been made. The case is now considered a cold case, one of the many unsolved murders in Las Vegas. Information regarding a potential motive or the circumstances leading up to her death has not been released to the public. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department continues to encourage anyone with information regarding this case to come forward.
