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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-las-vegas-man-93-open-fire-apartment-maintenance-n1111736A 93-year-old man shot at an employee at his Las Vegas apartment complex, in a chilling attack caught on surveillance cameras, authorities said Monday.
The gunfire erupted Thursday morning at the Vista Del Valle complex, police said, just blocks away from the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, where the World Series of Poker's final table is played every summer.
In surveillance video released by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, suspect Robert Thomas can be seen approaching a male and female worker inside the management office.
Thomas then pulls a gun out of his jacket and fires one round toward the back of the room, missing another employee and striking a computer, police said.
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Proving once again, guns are the answer - at any age.
sdfernando
(4,941 posts)his prison sentence will not last very long.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)WTF is this piece of information doing in this story:
"...just blocks away from the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, where the World Series of Poker's final table is played every summer."
The complex is a block and half on the other side of I-15 from the Strip, and is adjacent to Gold Coast and Palms on West Flamingo (that's Bellagio/Caesar's on the Strip).
But, why on earth would anyone give a serious shit that the World Series of Poker's final table is played a block away from a non-descript apartment complex where a shooting took place?
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...just a few minutes ride from the fabulous Hard Rock Casino featuring nightly performances of Britney Spears long-running show.
He is being held without bond at the Clarke County Jail, just down the street from the Golden Nugget Buffet, voted best buffet in Fremont Street for three years running!
Jesus.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)shooting people is becoming the American way.
Quackers
(2,256 posts)After the worker is hit and laying on the floor, the shooter aims and shoots him in the left hip.
getagrip_already
(14,837 posts)If he were not white, he wouldn't be. The cop fired only once at him and missed. He at one point moved to point his gun towards the cop, but the cop yelled at him and he put the gun down slowly.
Cops aren't trained to fire once. They are trained to fire, and keep firing, until the suspect stops moving.
That right there, is privilege. I'm not saying the cop should have killed him, just that anyone else would be dead. I'm glad he is ok, and in custody. Just surprised.
irisblue
(33,023 posts)Source--http://news3lv.com/news/local/lvmpd-suspect-shot-maintenance-over-water-damage-before-police-shooting
snip--Arriving officers reportedly heard a gunshot while approaching the office, and upon seeing Thomas, ordered him to drop the weapon. LVMPD officer Ronald Hornyak fired a shot through the door window, penetrating Thomas' lapel but not injuring him.
Officers then reportedly took Thomas to the ground to arrest him, where the glass injured his head.
Both Thomas and the maintenance worker were sent to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Thomas faces charges of attempted murder with a deadly weapon, kidnapping with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm within a structure, burglary with a firearm, and carrying a concealed weapon.
More at article.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)And some people think I'm the nutcase because I want to see all guns confiscated.