Father of NBA star Jaylen Brown arrested for Las Vegas stabbing over ‘door ding’

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — The father of NBA star Jaylen Brown was arrested for Wednesday night’s stabbing at a Las Vegas park that stemmed from a “door ding,” according to a source familiar with the investigation and a police report.

Jail records show Quenton M. Brown, 57, was booked sometime Thursday morning on suspicion of attempted murder. His first court appearance is scheduled for Thursday afternoon.

A source tells News 3 that Brown, who goes by his middle name Marselles, was the suspect arrested for the stabbing at All American Park on Buffalo Drive near Charleston Boulevard.

LVMPD previously said two people got into an argument over a parking space, and one person stabbed the other in the stomach. Officers found the suspect and took him into custody, while the victim was taken to a hospital to undergo surgery.

An arrest report obtained by News 3 states that witnesses told police the altercation started because of a “door ding.” The girlfriend of the man who was stabbed said they were sitting in the parking lot when an SUV parked next to them and someone came out of the passenger side.

The passenger door of the SUV hit the driver’s side door, and the woman said her boyfriend got out to check for damage. The other man in the SUV was immediately confrontational, said “it was just a bump” and called the boyfriend a “b**** a**,” the woman told police. Her boyfriend slapped a side mirror on the SUV in response, and the man asked “if he wanted to go,” to which the boyfriend said yes.

After the boyfriend turned his back, the man from the SUV “briskly walked after him while producing [an] unknown object from his right side,” the girlfriend said. The man “swung his arm in a straight stabbing motion and struck [the boyfriend] in his back.”

The man from the SUV then hit him several times in the stomach, and the boyfriend tried to fight back. He ran back to the girlfriend’s car, and they drove away to a pharmacy near Fort Apache Road and Sahara Avenue to wait for an ambulance.

Other witnesses said they saw two men, one tall and the other skinny, challenge each other to a fight, according to the report. One witness said the taller man swung his knife at the skinnier man “25 times.”

Doctors told LVMPD that the man suffered stab wounds to his back, upper right clavicle area, and left hand, plus a broken right rib that might need surgery. The report described his condition as critical.

Police got a vehicle description and partial plate, and they stopped a matching SUV on southbound U.S. 95 near Decatur Boulevard. They found Brown sitting in a passenger seat, and he had abrasions on his knees and was bleeding from his face.

“He spontaneously uttered that this was all over a door ding without being asked any questions by Patrol officers,” the report states.

Brown was taken to UMC, where he declined to be interviewed. Crime scene investigators seized Brown’s clothing, which had blood on it, but LMVPD wrote that they could not find the knife.

The report states he had a prior arrest by Henderson Police back in 2016 on suspicion of battery resulting in substantial bodily harm.

Bail has been set at $300K. If bail is made, Brown must wear an ankle monitor.

Jaylen Brown, a four-time NBA All-Star and 2024 Finals MVP, has played with the Boston Celtics since being drafted by the team in 2016. He is originally from Marietta, Georgia.