Police: Fatal ax attack on boy in stroller and his mother in Las Vegas neighborhood random
By APFriday, February 12, 2010
Police: Fatal ax attack in Vegas street was random
LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas police say an ax attack that killed a 4-month-old boy in a stroller and left his mother critically injured appeared to be a random act.
Police say they don’t think 33-year-old Harold E. Montague knew the woman and the child attacked just before noon Thursday on a residential street several blocks east of the Stratosphere hotel-casino.
Police say the woman was hospitalized in critical condition after Montague ran out of a house and hit her and the boy with a hatchet or small ax.
Police found another woman with stab wounds in a rear bedroom of the home, where police say Montague was living. She was hospitalized in stable condition.
Police say Montague tried to attack a police officer before he was arrested. The officer received minor injuries.
