That vehicle, registered to Telles’ wife, departed Telles’ home around 9 a.m. 2, the morning of the killing, stopping several times. Investigators said a distinctive maroon GMC Yukon Denali SUV was seen driving around German’s neighborhood Sept. He said investigators were attempting to enhance it.

Telles was waiting … and called (German) over to the side of his own home.”Ī murder weapon has not been found, but Lombardo said police have “distorted” video that shows the attack. “He was fighting for his life,” the judge said of the 69-year-old longtime journalist. Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Elana Lee Graham called a police report detailing the attack “chilling,” including the discovery of wounds on German’s arms and DNA believed to be from Telles in German’s fingernails. Scow said German was stabbed seven times. “The published articles regarding a public figure, the public administrator’s office, ruined his political career, likely his marriage, and this was him lashing out at the cause,” Chief Deputy Clark County District Attorney Richard Scow said of Telles. LAS VEGAS (AP) - The DNA of a jailed elected official who was angered by past and upcoming newspaper stories was found on the hands of a Las Vegas investigative reporter who fought for his life while being stabbed to death outside his home, authorities said Thursday.Ĭounty Public Administrator Robert Telles stood handcuffed in court with bandages on his wrists and police officers at his elbows while a prosecutor told a judge that Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German’s death was a planned attack by an assailant who left his own cellphone at home and waited in a vehicle outside German’s home.

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