Eric Bowden, 32, male, African-American/Black, was found dead in Las Vegas on September 4, 2008. Fire crews and police discovered his body inside a residence that had been deliberately set ablaze. The death was ruled a homicide, and investigators determined the blaze appeared to be an attempt to conceal what happened to him.
Detectives with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department opened an investigation, the kind of case their homicide section handles when a suspicious death intersects with a fire scene. Publicly available summaries indicate no widely reported motive, and no suspect or suspects were identified in information released to the public. There have been no publicized arrests tied to the killing.
