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Kenneth Brown died on a downtown Las Vegas sidewalk in the dark of April 28, 2024, missing an eye and an ear. Colin Ichiro Czech, then 29, was kneeling next to him with biological matter in his hair, his mouth, and on his clothes. He told officers Brown had attacked him first. He later told detectives he had been awake five days, that something was \u00ab\u00a0possessing him,\u00a0\u00bb that he had fought a \u00ab\u00a0shape-shifter,\u00a0\u00bb and that voices wanted him to kill a man named Drake. When they asked what he had used, he said, \u00ab\u00a0my teeth.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n
The first 911 call, around 4 a.m., came from a 7-Eleven employee who said Czech had tackled a customer outside the store at South Las Vegas Boulevard and Charleston. About 45 minutes later a second caller said a man at a bus stop was \u00ab\u00a0eating\u00a0\u00bb another man’s face. Police and the Clark County Coroner identified the dead man as Brown. A crime-scene analyst later told a grand jury the eyeball and ear were on the ground near the body. Investigators say Czech punched him until his head hit concrete.<\/p>\n
Czech was booked for open murder, no bail, Clark County Detention Center. He missed his first court date because he was still in the hospital, then appeared by video. His public defender, David Westbrook, asked for a competency exam. On May 24, 2024, after two doctors signed off, Judge Christy Craig found him competent. \u00ab\u00a0Competency is fluid,\u00a0\u00bb Westbrook said. In July 2024 a grand jury indicted him for murder, mayhem, and attempted murder \u2014 mayhem for chewing off the eye and ear, attempted murder for the 7-Eleven worker he allegedly went after first. District Attorney Steve Wolfson warned early that competency cases \u00ab\u00a0can take years.\u00a0\u00bb No verdict has been reported.<\/p>\n