Glenda Taylor, 45

Las Vegas, Nevada
April 23, 2017

Agencies: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Nevada

Cause of death: Not Yet Known


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Overview

A woman stabbed and killed in her apartment Sunday near downtown Las Vegas has been identified.

She was Glenda Taylor, 45, of Las Vegas, the Clark County coroner’s office said.

A family member found Taylor on Sunday morning with multiple stab wounds in her apartment on the 2200 block of West Bonanza Road.

Police said that Taylor’s boyfriend, 46-year-old Steven Miller, a Clark County juvenile probation officer, stabbed Taylor before trying to kill himself. He is receiving treatment at University Medical Center but will face charges of murder with a deadly weapon.

“She was loving, kind, down to earth,” the victim’s daughter Erica Taylor said. “A genuine person. She was very righteous and loved hard.”

The mother of four was born in Palau, Taylor’s daughter said, but grew up in Utah as an adopted child. She had lived in Las Vegas for over 10 years and enjoyed spending her free time with her family and at church.

Just a few days before her death, Taylor expressed interest in opening a cosmetics store, her daughter said. Taylor had worked as a makeup artist and as a manager at a local Macy’s. But she had recently retired to pursue an education and enrolled at College of Southern Nevada.

“We went to CSN together,” Taylor’s daughter said. Even though the mother and daughter had different schedules, they often made time to meet together on campus. “We talked all the time.”

Taylor was working toward an associate degree in arts, a CSN representative said.

“She was like a model on the outside but even more beautiful on the inside,” Taylor’s close friend Tonya McKinney said.

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