Category: Court News

GOLDEN VALLEY – A Saturday shooting death is under investigation as a homicide by the Mohave County Sheriff’s office. Deputies responded at approximately 10:10 p.m. to a call reporting a shooting in the 4600 block of N. So Hi Blvd. “The caller, later identified as Roy Dean Medlin, 64, Golden Valley, indicated that he had gotten into a physical altercation with his roommate and had shot him,” said sheriff’s spokeswoman Anita Mortensen. “Upon arrival, deputies observed a subject, later identified as David Scott Hendrix, 49, deceased in the residence from an apparent gunshot wound.” Detectives continue the investigation and Medlin…

GOLDEN VALLEY – A Saturday shooting death is under investigation as a homicide by the Mohave County Sheriff’s office. Deputies responded at approximately 10:10 p.m. to a call reporting a shooting in the 4600 block of N. So Hi Blvd. “The caller, later identified as Roy Dean Medlin, 64, Golden Valley, indicated that he had gotten into a physical altercation with his roommate and had shot him,” said sheriff’s spokeswoman Anita Mortensen. “Upon arrival, deputies observed a subject, later identified as David Scott Hendrix, 49, deceased in the residence from an apparent gunshot wound.” Detectives continue the investigation and Medlin…

CHLORIDE – Horrific details of a double murder are provided through a Golden Valley man’s confession that he killed his grandmother and her partner at their Chloride home at 8182 N Palo Verde Drive. The bloodied bodies of Bryan Dean Drake, 57, and Robin Rae Hammontree, 61, were found on the floor of the southeast bedroom of the residence after 8:00 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28.Following his Wednesday night arrest Dustyn Wade Walsh, 19, told detectives he confronted Drake because Drake had raped his sister. Drake was acquitted of a slew of child molestation and other sex offense charges when his…