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Jose Ignacio Villanueva III

Case from Las Vegas, NV dated Apr 01, 2017

Victim Details

Jose Ignacio Villanueva III

Male

Hispanic / Latino

Las Vegas

NV

2017-04-01

40

Jose

Ignacio Villanueva III

07/23/2026

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In the late hours of a Saturday night in Las Vegas, on April 1, 2017, the life of 40-year-old Jose Ignacio Villanueva III came to a violent end. A Hispanic male, Villanueva was found inside an apartment on Thunder Street with multiple gunshot wounds. When officers from the Metropolitan Police Department arrived at the residence around 10:30 p.m., they discovered Villanueva in the bathroom, where he was pronounced dead at the scene. Evidence of the grim events that had transpired was apparent, wi ...
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