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Wrecked cars are shown on Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Avenue as Las Vegas Metro Police investigate a shooting and multi-car accident that left three people dead and three injured on the Las Vegas Strip early Thursday morning, Feb. 21, 2013. EDITOR’S NOTE: This photo has been digitally altered to obscure an image of one of the victims.
Published Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 | 7:57 a.m.
Updated Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 | 9 p.m.
Fatal crash
The Las Vegas Strip became a scene of deadly violence early Thursday when someone in a black Range Rover opened fire on a Maserati, sending it crashing into a taxi that burst into flames, leaving three people dead and at least six injured.
Late Thursday afternoon, names of two of the deceased became known. The man driving the Maserati has been identified as Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr., 27. Las Vegas attorney Vicki Greco, of Greco Law Group, had represented Cherry in speeding ticket cases and said friends of his had been calling throughout the day about his death. The deceased taxi driver was identified as Michael Boldon, Desert Cab company general manager Sandy Shaver confirmed.
Police said a confrontation that appeared to have begun in the valet area of the Aria resort spilled onto Las Vegas Boulevard, leading to sporadic gunshots being fired from the Range Rover as the vehicles traveled north. The accident occurred near Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Road, the site of several major casinos, including Bellagio, Caesars Palace and Bally's.
"This doesn't happen where we come from, not on this scale," said Mark Thompson, who was visiting from Manchester, England, with his wife. "We get stabbings, and gang violence, but this is like something out of a movie. Like 'Die Hard' or something."
Police were contacting authorities in three neighboring states about the Range Rover Sport with tinted windows and paper dealer plates that fled the scene about 4:30 a.m.
Metro Police Sgt. John Sheahan said the vehicles were seen pulling onto Las Vegas Boulevard near East Harmon Avenue, near City Center, then heading north. Although authorities initially said gunshots were fired from both the SUV and the Maserati, Sheahan clarified that gunfire came only from the Range Rover.
Thursday afternoon, Sheriff Doug Gillespie said after the driver of the Maserati was shot, he lost control of the car passed through a red light and hit the taxi cab, which went up in flames. Boldon and his passenger in the cab were killed. Cherry died in the Maserati, and his passenger was shot.
"What is the genesis of this, when did this all start? We don't know yet," Las Vegas Police Sgt. John Sheahan said.
The passenger in the Maserati was taken to University Medical Center, where he was being interviewed by detectives.
Gillespie said there were several people in the Range Rover, but police were not saying whether they knew of any relationship or ill will between the people in the two vehicles beyond the argument at the valet station.
Tourists staying in high-rise hotels around the scene found police tape blocking access to the area around the intersection. By 8 p.m., the intersection was reopened, after police crime scene investigators were finished collecting evidence.
Jeff Martin, 33, of Columbus, Ohio, said he was unable to cross the Strip several hours after the incident.
"When you're out at 4 a.m. nothing good's going to happen," he said.
Sheahan said the attack was not a rolling gun battle as previously described. The cars were stopped at a light when at least one person in the Range Rover opened fire. Several people were inside the vehicle, described as a four-door SUV with big black rims.
Multiple rounds were fired from the Range Rover, Gillespie said. He added police did not know whether what kind of firearms were used in the shooting,
Six other vehicles were involved in the crash that followed, including the taxi and Maserati.
Shaver said he was called to the scene to provide information.
Shaver also said the taxi that was struck was not fueled by propane or natural gas, as some had speculated. Gillespie said the cab exploded from the "sheer force" of the impact of the crash.
Greg Bambic, president of the Professional Drivers Association, a taxi driver organization dedicated to assisting drivers who are victims of crimes and acts of violence, said the group plans to donate $5,000 to the Boldon family.
Bambic said the organization since 2004 has donated thousands of dollars to drivers who have been robbed and assaulted on the job and their families.
“It’s drivers helping drivers,” said Bambic.
The association raises money through memberships and fund-raisers and it receives donations from Southern Nevada companies that are friendly to the cab industry. Bambic said some of the most supportive donors are the cab companies themselves.
Teri Williams, a spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Business and Industry, which oversees the Nevada Taxicab Authority, said the agency’s patrol officers were close to the scene when the incident occurred and were among the first responders.
The Taxicab Authority investigates accidents involving taxicabs.
Williams said Metro took over the investigation, but authority officers are continuing to assist. She had no further details about the status of the investigation.
The incident marked the latest violence on the Strip since the beginning of the year. Two people were critically wounded in a shooting at a parking garage Feb. 6, and a tourist was stabbed Saturday in an elevator at The Hotel at Mandalay Bay. On Dec. 14, a busy Friday night at the Excalibur, a murder-suicide near the registration desk of the resort sent crowds visitors running to the exits.
A spokesman for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Jeremy Handel, said his organization didn't immediately have a comment on the latest incident and deferred to police.
Metro spokesman Officer Jose Hernandez acknowledged the Strip has seen several violent incidents in recent weeks but said police have made arrests or identified suspects in each case.
"People don't have to worry," he said. "This is an unusual occurrence, as tragic as it may be."
Eileen Brosnan, who was visiting Las Vegas from Killarney County Kerry, Ireland, was stunned by what she saw at the scene.
"I live in a little small town where we have absolutely no crime," she said. "The only way we hear about things like this is on CNN or news from other places. I knew there was crime here, but I wasn't expecting anything of this magnitude. I don't feel less safe, because there is plenty of security and police to deal with it. It is very surprising to me, though. I was staying at Caesars, and I just had to come down and see it."
Sheahan said police have video from traffic cameras at the intersection and were checking whether the shooting might have been sparked by an altercation at a nightclub.
"We have a lot of pieces to put together to establish a timeline as to why this confrontation occurred," Sheahan said. "We have numerous detectives checking resorts on the Strip south of this intersection."
In interviews with Fox 5 KVVU-TV, family members of Boldon said he moved to Las Vegas recently to care for his mother, who is 93. It was not clear where Boldon lived before making the move.
“My life mission would be to see (the suspects) punished and brought to justice,” said Tehran Boldon, Michael Boldon’s brother. “I don’t know what their affiliation is, if they’re in a gang or whatever. But they’re stupid and senseless men, and they must pay.”
Cherry was an aspiring rapper whose twitter feed included links to videos identifying him as "Kenny Clutch" and with scenes featuring a Maserati on the Las Vegas Strip. His attorney said Cherry loved cars and drove a gray Maserati, but she’d always remember him for his trademark dreadlocks.
“He was loyal, dependable, somebody that would always have your back if you were on his team,” Greco said. “He was a stand up guy.”
Associated Press writers Ken Ritter, Michelle Rindels and Hannah Dreier contributed to this report, as well as Sun reporters Will D’Urso, Ron Sylvester, Tovin Lapan and Richard N. Velotta.
Just another day in the United States of Special Interests whose citizens live amidst a daily lottery of increased threat of job loss and or underemployment, increased threat of loss of savings, increased threat of bodily harm and who participate in a workplace continually diminishing it's obligations and long term commitments, increasing anxiety amongst the workforce.
Hi,
My thoughts are with the victims' families. However, I would like to know the Maserati passenger's version of events and any security video footage from the countless Casino Cams.
Regards,
Citizen USA
-w
Got the same problem here as over at the RJ. Maseratis can't shoot.
Don, i've never associated maserati's with the plight of the american workforce. Drug cartels maybe.
If only Nevada allowed open carry. Oh, wait. If only Nevada allowed concealed carry. Oh, wait. Nevermind. More guns!! Yeah!!!
C'mon now, the guys from the SUV were just welcoming tourists to Vegas :)That's the standard greeting nowadays on the strip right?
HERE YOU GO with your SECOND AMENDMENT "RIGHTS" ... Thugs taking the war onto the streets and killing innocent lives. Only in the USA, the country of limited impossibilities... BAN ALL FIREARMS NOW, INCLUDING SINGLE SHOT HAND GUNS! ALL OF THEM, except GOVERNMET OFFICIALS! Any civilian, who STILL INSISTS on owning a gun is not a POTENTIAL MURDERER but a DE-FACTO-MURDERER. ALL YOU GUNOWNERS ARE THE CORE PROBLEM and you are not the Heros, you suppose to think you are. Where were those "civilian heros with guns", when this shooting took place in the MIDDLE OF THE STRIP? Why didn't any HERO stop the SUV with his gun? BECAUSE THERE ARE NO HEROS. ONLY POLICE, CRIMINALS, and DE-FACTO-MURDERERS!
Bring some of that DOWNTOWN to the UPTOWN YO!
Eastcoast vs Westcoast....Where was Suge Knight on this night?
How many tourists thought this was a movie set?
Dat's what I'm thinking...
@ Elvegas
I can not begin to say just how wrong you are. I just hope you are not a voting citizen.God help us if you are.
I'm sure the FAST network of traffic cameras has a good photo of the vehicle and the temp plate. By now the Range Rover is probably parked in Los Angeles and the gang bangers are asleep.
With all the cuts in METRO I wonder what the staffing is on LVB? Will this incident help the Sheriff's request for a sales tax increase to hire more officers.
Yes, banning guns is the answer. Clearly, if a gun ban had been passed, the occupants of the black Range Rover would have turned their weapons in. All criminals will line up to turn in their weapons. Why hasn't anyone thought of this before? It's like Prohibition, you ban alcohol, it all goes underground. You ban guns, only the bad guys get them. Wake up Las Vegas. We may not be the most educated city in America, but even we can grasp this simple fact!
No description of the warring factions?
I thought cars only exploded on Grand Theft Auto.
Anyway, this dude is as good as caught. Vehicle too distinctive.
@ Elvegas
Good troll, but not great. You have to be a little more subtle to be believable.
I know Chumlee has a Maserati. Hope it wasn't him.
Range Rover, Maserati?...this should be interesting.
Sure, Don Steele, signs of underemployment and job loss - A black Range Rover and a Maserati.
@goingbust: That Range Rover is already in a chop shop with different wheels and plates on it. This was a professional hit.
@Rusty57: Not only drug cartels, but don't discount the Mob - the Russian Mob.
This was like an episode of CSI and Walker Texas Ranger rolled into one!
And people talk about the crime in Chicago. At least the gang bangers don't drive down Michigan Ave. doing drive-bys. ANY gang banger walking down Michigan Ave would stick out like a sore thumb. And get attention from the CPD.
You can actually see a chard arm sticking out of the back of the cab!!!!!!!!!! OMG OMG OMG
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I have complained for years about no plates on luxury cars, here, on talk radio, to the head of the DMV, etc. Put out an APB on a car with paper plates.
"And people talk about the crime in Chicago."
Yes, because Chicago had 43 murders in January.
it is all star weekend all over again i bet the tourists in town cant wait to get on the plane and talk about this . cnn,fox,cnbc,and msnbc are all over this i bet mrs.goodman and the lvvca are loving all this free publicity . lets just be straight and honest the strip and las vegas in general are not safe places to be anymore . it hasnt been since all star weekend when it all changed for the worse. the bridges and sidewalks are full of scam artists selling and pushing there junk and bad acts. this was a tragic event and yes the range rover is already down i-15 long gone
""It's the latest in a series of violent actions on the tourist corridor since the beginning of the year. Two people were critically wounded in a shooting at a parking garage Feb. 6, and a tourist was stabbed in an elevator at The Hotel at Mandalay Bay Feb. 16. ""
Welcome to Beautiful Las Vegas!
I feel real bad for the taxi driver and tourist who were killed. One person working to make a living, another most likely on vacation. Whoever made the comment that this incident started from a nightclub makes sense and i wouldnt be surprized. I love this town and it has been home for a real long time, but I'm dissapointed with the way the strip has become. Good luck metro and hopefully the fbi will get involved and they will get these people.
Maybe they will finally make the strip pedestrian only. It wouldn't have prevented what happened, but at least if it happened on another street, there would not have been the high concentration of people on streets and sidewalks.
Some Las Vegans sick addiction to own a gun will finally lead to a series of disasters like this, poisoning the tourist industriy. The "2nd Amendment-Fanatics" will KILL MILLIONS of jobs. Vegas will be called a "gun-loving hellhole" if no one stands up and shouts: PUT AN END TO THIS! BAN GUNS in NEVADA! ALL KINDS OF GUNS! Even if it means, that we have to build border control stations, I DO NOT WANT ANY PERSON TO CARRY A GUN, AS LONG AS THIS PERSON IS NOT A COP OR NATIONAL GUARD ON DUTY!
This is what will follow. The guys in the Range Rover will get caught. All of them will be arrested.
Soon after, they will commence the rat game - ratting each other out - crying in court, along with family members.
And how will this be portrayed by the childish cowardly "hip hop culture?" It will be portrayed as "tough street violent survival gang mentality."
They spew the fantasy of this - and ignore reality - that these imbeciles cry like babies in jail, rat each other out, and live a life of regret behind bars. All that will be ignored - all you will get - the fantasy mentality.
That culture needs to be exposed for what it is - a culture of cowards - no different than a fantasy culture - imbeciles who fail to mature into adulthood - imbeciles who get stuck living this fantasy life style.
It is like a fruit that never ripens.
Where was metro? Out looking for hookers on the street? Out looking for some punk smoking a joint at home?
Get your priorities straight! Metro is so distracted with these petty crimes they forget to guard the heart of Las Vegas.
This is BAD for EVERYONE in Las Vegas. It is NOT good for our community.
Condolences to the families for their loss.
"Jeff Martin, 33, of Columbus, Ohio, said he was unable to cross the Strip several hours after the incident.
Mr. Martin could have crossed the Strip if he would have simply gone to another intersection.
"'When you're out at 4 a.m. nothing good's going to happen,' he said."
Such a small-town cliche. Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. Good and bad happens all the time.
How many unnecessary deaths have occurred in Las Vegas so far this year? There must be a running count.
How is it metro's fault? Police can't be & shouldn't be everywhere! People go nuts all time, but the majority of murder is done by people you know or have relationships with. Prayers go out to all those involved.
The above is the reason they outlawed guns in frontier towns like Deadwood. Guns, booze, drugs, whores and rappers don't mix. More people get blown to bits in this town in a few days than in the entire wild West. Most frontier towns had about one murder a year. In this town every morning you open the newspaper there's another adventure. But I'm sure all these guys were using their guns for self-defense.
The legislators want businesses and families to move here? How about better education, medical care and reduce the murder rate. If this keeps up its going to affect tourism and that's going to cost the city of fortune.
"Don t worry it s an isoleted event", that s ehat our politics says or "es un pleito entre grupos contrarios del crimen organizado" vaya pendejos.
those tax supported traffic cameras should be available to ALL taxpayers
put the video of this las vegas party town murder on TV, newpapers, online videos - youtube
all of it
we paid to record it - we want to see what happened
NOW
or stop taxing me for things I have NO access to
and yes that is a charred arm sticking out of the backseat of that alternative energy expoding vehicle
where's NHTSA and the federal government on that one?
eh, Harry Reid? lambasting the legislature on alternative energy?
put the camera video online TV we paid for it we want to see it
I agree with Vegas Dlight, there is lots of evidence to use to track down the shooters. There is probably mutliple videos of the shooters in the Casino and in the parking garage. If the Range Rover had temp plates/registration, probably new purchase, soon the buyer will be I.D.'d. It is just a matter of time until Metro tracks them down.
Good lord, what a sorry bunch of commentors. Making it about race, or Metro, or guns? Dear Lord, people, have some shame, and compassion.
Used to have the same thing going on in Chicago back in the 30's...only then it was Packard's and Caddy's being the vehicle choice.
The more things change the more they stay the same!
"Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. Good and bad happens all the time."
Astute comment James.
And whether they recognize it or not, good and bad also happens all the time in their little town, in whatever part of the world they come from.
"This doesn't happen where we come from, not on this scale," said Mark Thompson, who was visiting from Manchester, England, with his wife. "We get stabbings, and gang violence, but this is like something out of a movie. Like 'Die Hard' or something."
So there ya go folks...a free live show in Vegas, you don't get that everyday.
Bet you can't wait to return!
My guess it had something to do with the Nike convention going on
America has become a war zone. If some deranged gun nut had his feelings hurt and is having a bad day -- maybe his mom kicked him out of the basement or his girlfriend finally realized he's a loser and left -- someones got to pay for that injustice. And the rightwing's twisted interpretation of the 2nd amendment is all the ammunition he needs.
"If only Nevada allowed open carry. Oh, wait. If only Nevada allowed concealed carry. Oh, wait. Nevermind. More guns!! Yeah!!!"
If it turns out that the gun was illegally own then you then please tell us again how big of an idiot that you are and how meaningless this gun control debate is?
"The above is the reason they outlawed guns in frontier towns like Deadwood."
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There it is..
LastThroes, how much do you want to wager that the perps in this case were not "rightwings"?
I'm guessing they were either A-political or Obama supporters. But let's wait until all the facts come out first.
It's not a matter of guns in the hands of criminals, it's guns in the hands of people who have a 100% clean record but have a mindset that they will pull out and use that gun in any occurrence they deem its use is necessary. That's the problem with gun ownership in America..just too many stupid, hair trigger buffoons walking around. I'm not sure how you rectify that. We've become a nation of stupid people. Put a gun in the hand of those people and wham, you have what you have in this tragedy.
It looks like the folks from the Rocket Scientists convention had the morning off and decided to post here.
Peace and Blessings to all affected people.
My dad was driving there last night with my daughter about 5:00 PM...
...I feel very fortunate they are OK.
It will be very interesting how this plays out.
Another proud moment for this crazy a** gun culture and it's evil, poisonous, for profit teat the NRA.
"i m guessing they were either A-political or Obama supporters."
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Cause Obama supporters are all about going 9mm ballistic, you can copy/paste that at foxnation.com
Not even a messed up car jacking. Does sound like the "people" in the Range Rover were out to kill--didn't seem to matter who else was hurt. We need to keep violent people locked up forever and ever. Let's build prisons and hype the DOC budget--within a few years we'll have double the "savings" in court costs and cost of law enforcement to locate and arrest the same perps over and over again. And think of the enhancement to our personal safety.
This story is not about politics, please keep such comments to a minimum or avoid them completely.
Innocent people died cab driver and tourist. Will they shut down the strip for the cab driver's funeral? The way they do for a cop?
Det_munch says:"And people talk about the crime in Chicago. At least the gang bangers don't drive down Michigan Ave. doing drive-bys."
More people were killed in Chicago last year with your strict gun laws than all the coalition forces in Afghanistan combined. So much for Dets analogy.
My condolences to the innocent bystanders killed and their families. Sad day in LV.
Was the photo blurred recently? I missed seeing the charred body :(
The people who were killed and injured are the most important, and their families. My prayers are with them.
The trauma to tourists is also a sorry mess, and I hope they will recover, and return someday.
The torrid details are tragic, and secondary. The police will deal with that.
Certainly, this is not something to be speculated on or a cause of fear of the Strip.
Bless all the effected victims and families.
Innocent people dying in this town is a daily occurrence. They could do a reality show on Vegas death and mayhem and never run out of material.
All this crap is caused by guns. In decades of police work I have never seen a drive by with a bow and arrow or sling shot. These guys got into a dispute and decided to settle it the old fashioned way. By blowing the hell out of each other and anyone in between.
Something tells me the shooters weren't wearing NRA patches.
Vegas DLight - Don't throw out the term Hip Hop Culture if you have no clue what Hip Hop Culture is. The stuff you see on TV and hear on the radio isn't Hip Hop culture, it's Pop Culture. People that live the Hip Hop life aren't about this kind of thing. There are plenty of sub-genres in Rap music. Making blanket assumptions such as you have does not add anything positive to this discourse.
@lvsunmoderator
mayabe a good idea to remove as "off topic" those comments that have political over- and undertones.
I love how something like this happens and everyone jumps to conclusions. It's gangbangers, or cartels. Always racial undertones. For all we know it was a scorned wife shooting at her cheating husband and his mistress. In other words, we don't know what happened! So everyone should stop with the idiotic assumptions and wait until the authorities release the facts of what happened.
My sympathies to the families of the cab driver and the passenger in is car, and my prayers that the injured parties recover quickly.
If this incident isn't gang related...I'll buy you a white blackbird.
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Here you go..... Driver of the Maserati?
https://www.facebook.com/kenny.clutch
You know that if guns are banned that all of the criminals will turn them in just as the law abiding citizens will.
Do you honestly think that criminals will freely turn in their guns?
Welcome to "Fabulous Anarchy Park"
Kenny Clutch (aka Rapper Kenneth Cherry) luved his Maserati...
http://www.myspace.com/175794082/photos/...
But he also worshipped this lifestyle...
http://www.myspace.com/175794082/photos/...
To all of you who immediately stereotyped and assumed this was due to thugs, rappers, gangs, hip-hop, etc......it appears you were all correct.
Somebody better remember to tell all the witnesses " What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."
another nightclub altercation this time haze that carried over into the parking lot into the street i wonder how many tourists have cancelled there reservations because of this. you know cnn,fox,msnbc,cnbc,cbs,nbc.and abc have done a good job of covering this . i believe the previous sheriff of clark county said one day the night club scene will come back to put a black eye on vegas and will cost lives .i think this was the day
The Casino industry and Locals need to set Metro straight on their priorities.
What is it going to be? Busting a few prostitutes or pot smokers at home? Or focusing on keeping the Strip safe?
Do these people understand that the Strip is the source of EVERYTHING here in Las Vegas?
Do they comprehend how much damage this does to tourism in Las Vegas?
Metro needs to ensure that they have heavy officers on the strip at ALL TIMES. This will reduce even the thought of engaging in such criminal conduct.
Las Vegas no se merece este tipo de violencia.
Tengo mas de treinta anos visitando Las vegas, desde que el Tropicana ignauro las torres, siempre que visitamos Las Vegas, yo permito a mis hijas salir solas en la noche a las Discos al Bellagio, al Ceasars, al Vennetian, al Win, siempre me he sentido muy seguro y tranquilo en Las vegas, a tal grado que prefiero ir al Las Vegas que a Francia o Italia. Necesitan los Casinos ser mas rigurosos y exigentes con la seguridad y vigilar la clase de gente que los visita, pues no por ser gente que llega en una Land-Rover o en um masrati o en un Bentley es gente desente, muchos son gente de lo peor, delincuentes que estan perdidos totalmente en la droga. Esto no lo merece Las Vegas, es muchisimo trabajo de muchisimos anos para que esta gentuza acaben con el prestigio de las Vegas y que la gente nos retiremos de viajar a esta maravillosa Ciudad, tiene que hacer algo contundente, los Casinos y la Policia y informar a toda la gente del mundo que Las vegas vuelve a ser una ciudad ejemplar, que todas las familias y sus visitantes podamos ir a buscar y encontrara tranquilidad y esparcimiento.
This will keep the tourists away. I wouldn't go within 5 miles of the strip either.
Check Six
This town has gone mad!
Woman and pit bull, jose vs FBI, and now this!
I'm not shocked anymore.
NEXT!
This shooting was not about any kind of music. It was probably about some insignificant slight one committed against the other and it escalated into a shooting because someone got their feelings hurt. They were drunk or high and hypersensitive over something that happened earlier. When immature people get hold of a little money, alcohol/drugs and guns, this type of thing has to happen.
The strip has changed dramatically in the past 10 years. Anyone who works there or hangs out there should of noticed this. The hip hop culture thugs have taken over the usual drunk tourists. This extends to all races. It used to be fun on the strip at 3am. Now your life depends on the mentality of which group you may innocently walk by at 3am. I quit going there a few years ago because of it.
Each of us has about as clear an understanding of who did what and why as you have a clear picture of what my girlfriend's under-wire bra does for her attitude...and mine - precisely no idea!
This bloody scene is emblematic of the future we guarantee ourselves when we gulp the NRA kool-aid "The only thing stopping a bad guy w/ a gun is a good guy w/aaaa... and blah,..." kablooey, kabl..
Since we know we don't have a clue as to their reason or motive, their mind set or their maturity levels, IQ or anything else, suffice it to say, what we have here is guns in hands shooting.
And two things were beginning to turn around too - more visitors and some economic life. Dang!
Maybe having a few hundred million drinks, a few hundred thousand people all jammed together, gobs more losers than winners, gobs more heart-ache than joy and way too many societal misfits hoping and failing to 'get lucky' may have something to the 'Garbage Out' piling up both on the streets of Las Vegas and in the collective psyche of folks who areN'T thinking twice about coming anymore.
What happens in Vegas might leave you with a bullet through the skull.
Poor ole Las Vegas is on the 'last legs' when this kinda crap is going down, local cops are gunning clowns, real estate is headed down and school districts choose to hound their teachers to leave town...or die...Like ole Percy said...
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It's time to gun up!
i thought they couldnt use the traffic cameras for police investigations
Welcome to Las Vegas. This story will sure help the tourist economy, or do drunks and gamblers not really care.But I am feeling quite sure that the grieving family of the innocent do.
My heart goes out to the innocent victims caught up in this mornings violence on the strip,and that includes Mr.Cherry.
In reality these events could have happened in any big city in America,especially one that has upwards of 2 million residents and in addition hosts 40 million visitors a year.
It will not deter us from visiting Las Vegas,a place where we feel safe, but at the same time we understand the need to be vigilant.Strip is edgy, and at times violent,but that sort of uncertainly and edginess is a draw for some,and it is for us.
Hope Metro can apprehend the perpetrators of this mornings carnage and incarcerate them for as long as Nevada law permits.
So Ed Gordon,
"...that sort of uncertainly and edginess is a draw for some,and it is for us."
Maybe I just failed to interpret correctly what you are saying.
Are you saying that you and yours would PREFER an environment where violence is increased, where the uncertainty of getting home is a GOOD thing and that you and your family ENJOY the increased likelihood of getting blown away in a cross fire of some people with lots of booze, fast cars and boat load of automatic weapons along somebody who deserves to be blown to bits??
Or did I somehow misconstrue the thrust of your comment about how wonderful the new deaths and violence on the strip are for attracting visitors?
"Strip is edgy, and at times violent,but that sort of uncertainly and edginess is a draw for some,and it is for us."
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Violence is a draw for you? Are ya kidding?, because if you aren't there's something wrong with you.
Great new strategy to be implemented in attracting visitors to Las Vegas!! Come one. Come ALL!
You thought running with the bulls at Pamplona is high excitement?!
Check out running for your life with thugs blowing you and your family away at short range with arsenals of automatic weaponry unrivaled in the history of civilization...if you want to call it that.
Fly in today. Get a room for tonight. Go for a stroll and the action starts. Think of all the money you'll save on slots? On sluts? on tips?
While you don't have a corner on violence in Vegas, you sure do have your share of shootings! You have more a month than Honolulu has in a year...
Mr Moderator, while your attempt to limit 1st amendment rights of posting, those same rather unusual posts from readers who are on their own agenda are sometimes what makes reading these articles fun and interesting.
However, It is a sad day when we forget to give condolences to the folks who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The cab driver and his passenger didn't deserve this and I hope their families collect millions from the pathetic car company that produced a car that catches fire after what looks in pictures to be a brush by accident.
Note that I didn't see it, but it sure didn't look like they hit very hard.
JMO: In this case, I would follow the fact he's a known Pimp, it's late night and it probably started in one of the nightclubs. I surmise this was a territory hit, and you're probably closer to anything else. Nothing to do with his being a hippity-hopper.
"The lawyer for the deceased helped him with parking tickets"... yeah, right, and never helped him with pandering? But all his friends are calling the lawyer to find out what happened. Hmmmmm....
Also loved your author, when he couldn't get anyone important to interview, went to the Cab Police and wrote 75% of the article based on that. Nothing to do with what happened, but a damn good interview, no less!
I'm coming in 3 weeks, please make sure the Strip is safe and ready for me. They won't let me bring a gun from Hawaii, so I'll be one of the 10% that's not packing.
js
"You have more a month than Honolulu has in a year..."
That's because thugs just can't hop in a car and be in Hawaii in 4 hours.
We don't have to worry...This is unusual?
Tell that to the cab driver and his fare.
Nearly 50% of murder victims are black and blacks only make up 13% of population.
The black music industry is constantly praising people that embrace violence and guns.
You don't hear Democrats especially Obama whining about that.
<<Yes, because Chicago had 43 murders in January>>
Reza: True, however, these murders did not happen in high profile tourist areas, but in areas where there ALWAYS was high crime. In areas such as Michigan Ave. or any high profile tourist area, there is some serious police presence. These areas have their own details, either walking the beat or in cars.
I'm not sticking up for the crime rate in Chicago; I find it disgusting and heartbreaking. But Vegas shouldn't be patting themselves on the back because it has a lower crime rate than Chicago. In fact - it should wake up and quit trying to hide the rising crime rate in the city. When innocent tourists are at risk and getting killed - there is a serious problem. Admit it.
Right on, Don Steele.
Moderator, politics is at the heart of much of what happens in our society. Censoring people, or threatening to, will not help.
..this is just one of a number of incidents on the strip. i still do alot of business there, and could not tell you the last time i spent any time on the strip. the last time i went down there, this is what i experienced:
drunk college aged men screaming profanities walking through Ceasars palace dragging their half dressed female party buddies along with them
porn flippers shoving their garbage in my face and littering the sidewalks with filth
sub par overpriced food, the the exception of wynn
obnoxious panhandlers interrupting my gambling for smokes or change
fights outside on the sidewalk
worst drink service EVER
It was so bad, i wrote to several casino properties as well as LVCVA, and only the latter responded, to which i quote
" we don't want Vegas to be a family friendly destination"
you got your wish. hows your "adult" style atmosphere working out for you LVCVA? now you got rampant gang violence, out of control prostitution, and an exploding drug/homeless population.
good job
It is really sad that so many news organizations are making this ghetto driver out like he is some innocent in all of this. The wannabe rapper is one of the people that is responsible for the deaths of two innocent people. This piece of crap got into the fight and he got what he deserved. If you want to live your trashing ghetto fabulous lifestyle then this is how it will end.
The problem in this country is not guns, the problem is most of you are to scared to call these people what they are. They are savages and are responsible for 75% of all murders in this country. Wake up American and stop being so damn politically correct. These savages have no respect for human life and never will.