A man fatally stabbed his mother’s longtime friend during a drunken fight inside a central Las Vegas Valley apartment on Saturday, according to his arrest report.

The Metropolitan Police Department identified the suspect as 39-year-old Christian Bryant of Las Vegas and took him into custody on a charge of open murder. The victim, 54-year-old Kyle Hughes, had been a friend of Bryant’s mother, Robin Bryant-Rooks, for seven years.

The fight broke out inside a studio apartment in the 2400 block of Clifford Avenue, near Eastern Avenue and Charleston Boulevard. According to a witness statement given to police by Bryant-Rooks, the two men “tussled” before Hughes collapsed to the floor.

Police said that after the stabbing Bryant-Rooks left the apartment for nearly 20 minutes before calling auth

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