Police say man used bat to beat woman Latally

A teenage boy called 911 Friday afternoon to get help for his mother, who he believed was beaten to death with a baseball bat by his father, Las Vegas police said.

About 4:30 p.m., a boy in his “early teens” called 911 from a gas station near the Summerhill Pointe Apartments, near Sahara Avenue and Fort Apache Road, to report he believed his mother had been “bludgeoned to death” by his father, Metropolitan Police Department homicide

Lt. Ray Spencer said Friday night. When officers found the boy, he told them his father hit his mother with a baseball bat.

Officers went to check on the woman at an apartment in the complex, and when no one answered the door, officers climbed through an open bedroom window, Spencer said.

Inside, a woman in her early 30s was lying on the bed with “an obvious head injury,” he said. Her husband was lying next to her.

The man, in his late 30s, appeared to be uninjured, Spencer said. Officers also found a baseball bat in the home.

Spencer said detectives believe the man beat his wife to death with the bat.

The woman had a faint pulse when officers arrived, Spencer said, but she died after being taken to University Medical Center.

Police had to give “multiple commands” to the man before he was arrested, Spencer said.

Officers responded to another domestic disturbance call involving the couple in February, but that call was at a different apartment complex, he said.

Spencer urged anyone suffering from domestic violence to seek help to avoid a similar “tragic incident.”

“I stress, anybody going through any type of domestic violence type situation, there are a lot of community resources out there,” he said.

The woman’s identity and her cause and manner of death will be released by the Clark County coroner’s office.