A 19-year-old Las Vegas man allegedly admitted to shooting and killing a man acting on a recent desire to kill someone, police said.
Joshua Martinez, 19, told cops that on Feb. 17, at around 3 a.m., he stole his parents’ debit cards and went to an ATM where he suspected a group of men were following him.
The teen returned home retrieved two guns and walked back to the bank looking for the men who had vanished.
Martinez then encountered a stranger and asked him about the men, starting a discussion that ended with the stranger’s death.
Police said Martinez confessed to the man that he “wanted to murder someone” to which the victim replied that he “felt that way sometimes too.”
The victim then admitted that he once set a person on fire. Martinez told cops that upon hearing that, “something clicked” and he “knew he had to kill him.”
He reportedly walked behind the man and shot him in the back of the head before running back home.
Martinez was identified by a witness and arrested a short time later.
