On September 2, 2022, a veteran Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German was stabbed to death outside his home in western Las Vegas. On September 7, police arrested Robert Telles, an elected official who serves as the Clark County public administrator and who was a recent subject of German’s reporting, on suspicion of murder.
Earlier this year, German had published a series of high-profile stories that uncovered claims of bullying and mismanagement in the Clark County administrator’s office, as well as an alleged “inappropriate relationship” between Telles and a member of his staff. After the Review-Journal published German’s articles, Telles denied the accusations and lashed out at the reporter in a series of Twitter posts. The official lost his primary re-election race for the local position in June, after continued unrest in his office was brought to light by German.