A Nevada man with eyeglasses tattooed on his face and horns tattooed on his bald head was arrested this week and charged with shooting his girlfriend to death.

“I killed the woman I love,” James Gina III reportedly said to a witness, KSNV reported.

A witness tipped off police about the murder on August 14, telling officers that he feared for his life in making the report.

The tipster told police he’d heard Gina and his girlfriend, identified as Celina Rebholz, arguing on August 12 and that he heard Gina threatening to “put three [bullets] in you” before he left for several hours, KVVU said. When he returned, he found Rebholz naked on the floor with a bullet wound to the chest but still alive. Gina was “frantic and distraught,” the witness said, according to the arrest report.

The witness said he wanted to call an ambulance but instead left the home because “he didn’t know what to do and could not deal with the situation.”

The witness returned the next day, and Gina told him Rebholz was dead and that he put her body in the attic.

Two other witnesses corroborated the first witness’s story, the arrest report says. One said that Gina texted him, “She’s gone, she’s dead,” after the shooting. He told detectives he deleted the texts because he wanted nothing to do with the murder on his phone. That witness also said that Gina had asked for a ride to the airport to get a rental car to use to move Rebholz’s body because the body “was beginning to emit a foul odor.”

A third witness said that Gina told her he was “fiddling” with the gun and accidentally shot his girlfriend.

Detectives found that Rebholz had been shot 12 times when they arrived at the home on August 14. They found Rebholz on a couch, covered by a blanket, with multiple defects in the couch that were consistent with bullet holes, the report said.

According to KSNV, one witness reported hearing Gina’s mother intervening in an argument between him and his girlfriend on August 12, KSNV reported. Gina reportedly told his mother he would shoot her too if she didn’t leave. It’s not clear which witness made that report.

Gina declined to give a statement when he was taken into custody. He entered a not guilty plea on Thursday and is being held without bond. His next court date is September 5.

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[Featured image: James Gina III/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department]