✝️ Larissa Garcia, age 30 – June 21 2024, Palms Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 🇺🇸 💔
On June 12, Jason Kendall, age 35, called police saying a woman was overdosing inside the hotel room.
Hotel security rushed to the room to find Garica on the floor with her jaw cut. She was taken to the hospital, where doctors determined there was no alcohol or drugs in her system. That led doctors to believe she was the victim of an assault.
Six days after the assault, a nurse noted that Garcia had been strangled and “possibly suffocated.”
Larissa died on June 21 after doctors declared her brain dead.
Video surveillance showed Kendall meeting Garcia in the lobby of the casino. An hour later, he was spotted leaving the room with no other people entering or leaving, according to the report. Investigators also found messages between Kendall and Larissa. Kendall’s search history also showed him viewing her online advertisement.
He confessed to paying Garcia $2,000 before strangling and assaulting her. “Jason said Larissa requested additional payment and he ‘snapped,’” police records state. “He hit her in the face and ‘choked’ her for 10 minutes’ and ‘then had sex with her.’ After having sex with Larissa, Jason wrote he ‘drug her away from the door and left.’ After leaving the hotel he called the police to report an overdose.”
Kendall was charged of open murder, sexual assault and battery by strangulation to commit sexual assault.
