A dispute over unpaid rent in a Las Vegas boarding house turned deadly on August 10, 2021. At a residence on the 200 block of West Chicago Avenue, homeowner 78-year-old Arnoldo Sanchez was renting rooms to tenants.

Police arrived about 12:25 a.m. and found a woman in the front yard with gunshot wounds and, inside the home, Dawn Kelley Paynter, 57, who had been fatally shot in the left arm and torso. A man in the house had been shot nine times and was expected to survive. The Clark County coroner ruled Paynter’s death a homicide; another female tenant, 53-year-old Pauline Wilson, was also killed by gunshot wounds.

Sanchez was arrested and booked into the Clark County Detention Center on two counts of open murder with a deadly weapon and one count of attempted murder with a deadly weapon; he was held without bail. If anyone knew Dawn Paynter or was familiar with the boarding house or the people involved, please share information that might help clarify what happened.