An overturned stroller marked the spot where a 4-month-old boy in a stroller was killed and his mother injured Thursday.
(John Locher/Las Vegas Review-Journal via Associated Press)
Suspect in Las Vegas ax killing tells police he blacked out
An overturned stroller marked the spot where a 4-month-old boy in a stroller was killed and his mother injured Thursday.
(John Locher/Las Vegas Review-Journal via Associated Press)
LAS VEGAS - A man accused of killing a 4-month-old boy with a medieval-style battle ax and critically injuring the child’s mother in a Las Vegas neighborhood told investigators he doesn’t remember a thing, police said yesterday.
Harold E. Montague, 33, didn’t know the woman or the boy he is accused of hacking with the blade of the ax during the rampage Thursday on a residential street about a mile east of Las Vegas Boulevard, police said.
Montague also is accused of stabbing his sister-in-law, a mentally disabled woman, more than 20 times with a point of the ax before bursting out of a home into the street.
“We don’t know what set him off,’’ police Lieutenant Lewis Roberts said after Montague was interviewed by homicide detectives and taken to the Clark County jail.
“He claims he blacked out. He said he doesn’t remember anything,’’ Roberts said.
The boy was found dead in the street, near where his stroller was found overturned.
His mother was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in very critical condition with what Roberts said were disfiguring face and head injuries. Their names weren’t immediately made public.
The sister-in-law was reported to be in fair condition at University Medical Center in Las Vegas.
Neighbors saw the attack and shouted at Montague to stop while calling 911, Roberts said.
Montague left the ax in the single-family home before police arrived, and scuffled with officers who tried to use a 
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