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Nov. 17, 2008
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Woman in critical condition after downtown shooting

Las Vegas police take a man into custody today after a shooting outside the Gold Spike casino downtown.
Photos by Craig L. Moran.



Metro Police investigate a shooting today in the parking of the Gold Spike casino.

A woman was shot and seriously injured Monday while dropping off her children with their father. Police have arrested the father.

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Las Vegas police did not identify the shooter or the victim.


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    • Police received a report of a shooting in the parking lot of the Gold Spike casino at about 12:35 p.m., said Lt. Lew Roberts.

    He said the woman was sitting in a car with her two children, her new boyfriend and a man police said was her ex-husband or ex-boyfriend. It was a regular meeting to pass custody of the children, he said.

    An argument ensued and she was shot “at least once” in the head. She was taken to University Medical Center in “very critical condition,” Roberts said.

    The new boyfriend and several bystanders subdued the shooter until police arrived.

    “He was taken into custody by some good citizens and some security personnel,” Roberts said. “We’re lucky.”

    No one else was injured.

    The children were put in the care of county Child Protective Services.

    Police would not discuss what the argument was about.

    Lisa Brown of Las Vegas was checking into the Gold Spike with a friend when the commotion started outside. They ran to the parking lot, and Brown carried one of the victim’s children into the casino.

    “She was crying. She was really confused and scared,” Brown said. “I took her inside and tried to keep her as calm as possible.”

    Gold Spike employees watched the children, and David Bulthuis, one of the casino’s security guards, was among those who held the shooter for police, said Michael Crandall, director of business affairs for The Siegel Group, which owns the Gold Spike.

    The casino, which for years was run-down and seedy, is in the midst of a significant remodeling. Crandall also said that the parties in the shooting were not casino customers.

    “We’re putting a lot of money into the place to clean it up and clean up the area around it,” he said. “This had nothing to do with the Gold Spike. It’s an unfortunate case.”

    Contact reporter Alan Choate at achoate@reviewjournal.com or 702-229-6435.

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    Lola wrote on November 19, 2008 09:34 PM: Vegas Meth-head gone crazy.


    Jennifer wrote on November 18, 2008 12:02 PM: To the commenter VEGAS:

    You can't be serious! Even if the mother was all of those things you are speculating, you are saying it was ok for the father to shoot her in the head, possibly more than once, in front of his children to protect them???

    Are you that big of a moron?


    G-sffeokuylru_nO wrote on November 17, 2008 10:44 PM: TO Fair & balanced fred: aka crossdresser,"HOUSTON -- Three men were arrested after they terrorized a Spring family during a home invasion, deputies told KPRC Local 2 Monday.

    Harris County sheriff's investigators said four men broke into the home in the 22700 block of Red Leo Lane at about 1 a.m.

    The suspects tied up the parents with duct tape and frightened their four children" This happen yesterday moron..yes they did show up at the door. Family just moved in last week. The four Illegals had the wrong house.moron....what you just got back from a church protest moron..go to calf and go to a mosque they and the black churches stop your gay prop..hahahah


    Fair and Balanced Fred wrote on November 17, 2008 10:32 PM: I am Fair and Balanced Fred, and I am the NRA.

    The last thing we want to do is infringe upon our God-fearing citizen's God given right to protect themselves from haranoid delusions.

    What he needed was more firepower. He needed a huge magazine on his weapon, because you never know when a band of drug addicts will show up at your door, unanounced, and sit on your girlfriend's chest and carve little "O"s in her forehead.


    Easy Solution wrote on November 17, 2008 06:20 PM: Don't procreate with a crazy person. Period.


    Vegas wrote on November 17, 2008 05:24 PM: Of course, shooting her wasn't the right way to do it.

    But, who knows, from what was printed here, what her part in this whole thing was.

    Had she been denying him his rights to see the kids?

    Has he lost everything because she decided to move in with her boyfriend?

    Has she abused the children in the past?

    Not saying she did any of these things. Indeed, she could have been a super mom.

    From this brief story, none of you know.

    Yes, it's too bad.

    He may have felt that this was the only way to protect his children from her.


    G-sffeokuylru_nO wrote on November 17, 2008 05:13 PM: Even money he is an illegal Alien...
    looks like one, car fits too.
    ps I don't see those officers going over that vehicle wearing gloves. Hay, they do on Vegas csi.


    ET wrote on November 17, 2008 05:10 PM: What a Moron,cannot even exchange his children,w/o trouble,IQ 50 - 60 ? The kids were dealt a fool,hope they turn out ,smarter, than their Dad.Las Vegas attracts all types,more will be showing up, the jobs are disappearing worldwide ,hold on, they're on the way, for easy money.Build more prisons for the fools or hang em.Hang this one.


    The Truth wrote on November 17, 2008 04:41 PM: Put them all on an island.


    APM wrote on November 17, 2008 04:38 PM: I agree with "TooBad"


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