Inset: Juan Orona appears in court. Background: The Nevada apartment complex where authorities say Juan Orona fatally shot his girlfriend and her two children (KLAS/YouTube).
A Nevada man told police he “blacked out” before allegedly killing his girlfriend and her two children, claiming the confrontation began after she said her former boyfriend was “better in bed,” investigators said.
Juan Orona, 29, allegedly told Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department detectives that when he regained awareness, he was in the bathroom holding his Glock 9mm handgun. His girlfriend, 41-year-old Nohani Flores-Osuna, was on the floor dead, along with the bodies of her two children, according to an arrest report obtained by local CBS affiliate KLAS.
Authorities say Orona is accused of shooting Flores-Osuna, her 16-year-old daughter, Maiya Deleon Flores, and her 7-year-old son, Noah Morales Flores, on Sept. 1.
The case unfolded after police said Orona called them at about 7:10 p.m. and reported that he had shot his girlfriend and her two children, according to an LVMPD press release. He told dispatchers he was at the department’s Southeast Area Command and wanted to surrender, while also giving officers the address of the alleged shooting at an apartment in the 5100 block of O’Bannon Drive.
Investigators wrote in the arrest report that Orona had grown upset earlier that day after spotting Flores-Osuna’s vehicle parked near a vehicle connected to her ex-boyfriend. Police say he later confronted her at the apartment where he had been living.
According to the report, Orona and Flores-Osuna had been in a relationship for roughly three to six months. Investigators said he had helped her secure the apartment and had been paying the rent.
During questioning, Orona allegedly acknowledged that he accused Flores-Osuna of cheating with a man named Henry, and police say she admitted the sexual relationship while telling him Henry was better in bed. After hearing that, Orona claimed he “blacked out,” the arrest report states.
Orona allegedly told police he kept the gun for protection in case Flores-Osuna’s ex showed up at the apartment intending to hurt him. When asked if he committed the killings, Orona did not deny pulling the trigger but said he could not remember how it all happened.
Orona told police that he remembered Flores-Osuna and the children either yelling at him or coming toward him during the alleged blackout, but he could not provide more details, per the arrest report.
Investigators found 10 spent 9mm cartridge cases at the scene.
Orona allegedly confessed to family members that he lost control of himself after confronting Flores-Osuna, according to the arrest report.
Orona faces three counts of murder with a deadly weapon and firing a gun inside an occupied structure. He is being held without bail.
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