Las Vegas, NV (KXNT) - A man is facing three counts of murder after he confessed to detectives that he murdered three people in 1996.
Willis King Davis was taken into custody on a gun charge during a stop by Metro Police in January. According to his arrest report, police said he had a concealed gun and was arrested for charges relating to the stop.
The arrest report said that Davis told officers he wanted to “confess to murders that happened years ago in North Las Vegas.”
Davis told police he was a gang member at the time of the killings. He was able to give police details about the unsolved crimes. All three murders happened in 1996- one in May, two in November.
Davis is charged with three counts of murder with a deadly weapon and one count of conspiracy to commit murder.