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Insets: Alonzo Brown (KLAS/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department). Background: The Las Vegas bus stop where Alonzo Brown killed a 62-year-old man (KLAS).
A Nevada resident faces a lengthy prison sentence after stalking and murdering several individuals in public locations, driven solely by a desire for violence.
Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo remarked during Alonzo Brown’s sentencing, “He simply decided he wanted to become a serial killer,” as reported by local CBS affiliate KLAS.
Alonzo Brown, now 22, was only 18 when he began a six-month killing spree in Las Vegas, which included at least three murders. Brown was apprehended and charged in 2022. After accepting a plea agreement late last year, he was sentenced on Wednesday to a minimum of 56 years in prison.
The series of murders initiated in January 2022, with Brown fatally shooting 24-year-old Dae-von Lane, someone he knew, while Lane was walking along East Tropicana Avenue. His subsequent victims, 62-year-old Paul Viana and 36-year-old Josue Chaparro-Montalvo, were strangers, murdered in May and June 2022, respectively, along the same avenue.
Chaparro-Montalvo was heading home from a convenience store when he was killed, whereas Viana was attacked while waiting at a bus stop. Surveillance footage captured Brown stalking and shadowing his victims before the attacks.
“These murders are very disturbing,” said LVMPD Captain Dori Koren during a 2022 press briefing, according to local Fox affiliate KVVU.
“What was especially disturbing as they reviewed some of the surveillance footage, they noticed that the suspect seemed to stalk the victim,” Koren said. “Appeared to be a random killing, there wasn’t any apparent motive from what we can tell.”
Describing Viana’s death at Brown’s sentencing, DiGiacomo said, “He literally stalks the victim as the victim was waiting for a bus — and then just walks up to a stranger and executes him.”
Brown claimed in interviews that he was “trying to figure out life” when the murders occurred and was not in a healthy mental state. “A normal, sane 18-year-old kid is not going to go ahead and wake up and go on a killing spree,” he told KLAS in 2022.
Brown, who was given credit for time served, won’t be eligible for parole until 2078.