Girlfriend allegedly tells Nevada man her ex was better in bed. Then he ‘blacked out’ and police find 3 people dead

A Las Vegas, Nevada, man is due back in court later this week as prosecutors move forward with a triple murder case that began, according to police, after he spotted his girlfriend’s car parked near her ex-boyfriend’s vehicle. Juan Orona, 29, made his first court appearance last week and remains held at the Clark County Detention Center.

The victims were Orona’s girlfriend, 41-year-old Nohany Flores-Osuna, and her two children, 16-year-old Maiya and seven-year-old Noah. According to the Daily Mail, which cited an arrest report seen by 8 News Now, Orona had been dating Flores-Osuna for what he described as three to six months and was covering rent on the apartment where all three were found dead last Tuesday.

The report details how the confrontation allegedly unfolded. Orona spotted Flores-Osuna’s car parked near her ex-boyfriend’s place and confronted her about it. She reportedly admitted she was still sleeping with her ex, telling Orona that “he was better in bed than Juan.” The alleged confrontation over Flores-Osuna’s ex echoes another recent case in which a man was accused of monitoring his former partner before she and her new boyfriend were killed. 

Orona said he “blacked out” after the confrontation

Orona told investigators he “blacked out” after that conversation and that when he came to, he was holding his Glock 9mm and the three bodies were scattered through the apartment. He didn’t deny pulling the trigger when officers asked, but said he couldn’t recall the sequence of events, only that he remembered the three of them shouting at him. 

He’s now charged with three counts of murder with a deadly weapon, along with a charge for discharging a firearm inside an occupied structure. He turned himself in after calling 911 and saying he had shot all three and wanted to surrender.

Orona is due back in court later this week as the case moves forward, joining other high-profile murder prosecutions that have drawn attention as they made their way through the justice system, including the case surrounding the killings of four University of Idaho students.

Readers were quick to weigh in on the case. “Leave the kids out of it,” read one of the more upvoted comments, a sentiment that ran through much of the discussion. Others speculated about how Orona’s defense might play out, with one person asking, “So psychosis is going to be a ‘thing’ now, is it?” A different commenter took a more resigned tone, writing simply, “Never tell anybody anything about your love life.”

Maiya’s father, Conrado De Leon, who lives in Mexico, told 8 News Now that he’s struggling to process the loss. “I’m devastated. I still can’t believe it. I’m shut down. I’m blocked off,” he said. He added that he wants Orona to receive the maximum sentence: “My daughter didn’t deserve it. She’s a child; there’s no forgiveness for this.” Noah’s school, Futuro Academy Charter School, remembered him as “incredibly warm and kind.”