Lawsuit: Metro officers didn’t intervene as woman stabbed 68 times
Relatives of a Las Vegas woman killed in 2022 said that Las Vegas police officers “stood outside listening” while she screamed for help, according to a lawsuit.
Las Vegas police officers stood outside listening as a 74-year-old woman was stabbed 68 times and killed by one of her sons in her home, a lawsuit filed Saturday alleged.
How the Metropolitan Police Department responded to the event prompted the woman’s other sons to file a lawsuit alleging, among other things, negligence and wrongful death.
The Review-Journal previously reported that Paula Prada Zuniga, of Las Vegas, was pronounced dead in the living room of her apartment on September 14, 2022. That evening, police found Zuniga lying on her stomach with multiple stab wounds after an argument with her son, Pablo Enrique Bonilla, who was then 34.
Bonilla was arrested and booked on one charge of murder of an elderly or protected person. After pleading guilty in 2023, he was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.
