According to the police officials, the 78-year-old home owner allegedly told a witness that “he didn’t want to go through the eviction process.” The judge decided that the 78-year-old man should remain jailed without bail pending his arraignment on murder and attempted murder charges in the slayings of two women and the wounding of a man who authorities said was shot nine times.
His name is Arnoldo Lozano-Sanchez and he allegedly “wanted to handle it his way,” prosecutors say. The suspect made statements about the victims not paying rent and that he was certainly upset about it. Police reported arriving at his small home early Tuesday to find one woman dead outside, the wounded man stumbling out the front door and another woman dead in a bedroom.
According to the police officials, the wounded man was hospitalized in critical condition but is expected to survive. The suspect refused to speak with police after his arrest. A witness told police that a few days ago, Arnoldo was very angry about his tenants not paying rent.
He suggested Lozano go to court to evict the people living inside his home. But, Arnoldo told the witness he would ‘handle it his way.’ The suspect asked a neighbor to help him dispose of the gun, but police found it in a nearby bush.
Police say they had no immediate information linking the rent dispute with a nationwide eviction moratorium that expired last week but was reinstated for areas with high transmission of COVID-19, including Nevada, where the incident occurred.
