Las Vegas police have submitted a deadly east Las Vegas stabbing and strangulation case for a self-defense review.

According to a Metropolitan Police Department spokesman, no arrest has been made following a deadly fight Aug. 14 in Las Vegas.

That day, police were called about 6:40 a.m. to the area of the Whitney Library in the 5100 block of East Tropicana Avenue, near South Nellis Boulevard, after a stabbing was reported by several 911 callers.

Arriving officers found a man unresponsive and another person suffering from a large laceration. Officers provided medical aid before paramedics arrived, but the unresponsive man was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

He was later identified by the Clark County coroner’s office as 22-year-old Isaiah Cervantes. His cause of death was lis

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