Woman dead after Tonopah motel stabbing

A Tonopah woman was arrested in connection with a deadly stabbing at a Nye County motel late Friday night.

Maureen Kinnamon, 49, faces a charge of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon and is being held at the Nye County Detention Center, the county sheriff’s department said Sunday evening.

Deputies responded to the National 9 Motel in Tonopah at approximately 10:25 p.m., where a woman was said to have been stabbed in the parking lot, police said.

Deputies arrived to find Kinnamon on a second-story balcony crying for help over an unresponsive woman, police said.

While loading Silas into an ambulance, deputies said they heard Kinnamon say she was responsible and “didn’t mean to hurt her like this.”

The Nye Regional Medical Center said Penny Sue Silas succumbed to her injuries a little after 11 p.m.

Detectives worked the crime scene throughout the night and into the morning, finding multiple items of evidence around the motel room that was shared by Kinnamon and Silas. Police said the evidence gathered included the murder weapon.

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