‘Everybody got underneath the tables’: 2 stabbed, 1 shot at Summerlin casino
Two people were stabbed and another person was shot at a Summerlin hotel-casino in the early hours on Saturday, police said.
The violence happened at around 1:20 a.m. at Red Rock Resort, at 11000 W. Charleston Blvd. just east of the 215 Beltway, according to a Metropolitan Police Department news release.
All three people were taken to University Medical Center. Two were in critical condition, police said.
Andrew Rothbart, 48, a local resident who was at Red Rock Resort on Friday night and the early hours of Saturday, said that many of the people he spoke with, particularly employees, were traumatized.
“Everybody got underneath the tables,” Rothbart said. He had attended a country music concert Friday evening and spent some time in the resort’s Rouge Room.
In an internal statement circulated to employees, a Red Rock Resort executive said “we recognize that such a traumatic incident may create concerns of well being and some of our team members may need support in processing the event.”
As such, Red Rock Resort would be offering counseling services to people who might need them, according to the statement from Scott Nelson, the resort’s vice president and general manager.
When Rothbart was leaving the Rouge Room at around 1 a.m., he said he saw security rushing in. When he was waiting for them to come back out, he heard a loud bang. He turned the corner towards the Lucky Penny restaurant, he said, and saw a person lying on the ground.
A semicircle of police and security guards surrounded the person, Rothbart said. He said that because of the heavy security presence, he didn’t feel unsafe.
From speaking with people, Rothbart said he had heard that the person had stabbed two security guards and a third security guard had shot the person. Police on Saturday provided no additional details beyond the news release, which only said that two people had been stabbed and one had been shot.
According to Nelson’s statement, the resort’s security team took “decisive actions.”
“While we are all shaken up by this random act of violence, we are grateful for the swift and decisive actions of our security team, which prevented a terrible incident from being much worse,” Nelson said in the statement.
Rothbart did not see what condition the two security guards appeared to be in. “Our thoughts and prayers are with our affected team members — please join us in wishing them a quick and complete recovery,” Nelson said in the statement.
“People were kind of in shock,” Rothbart said. “Other than roping off that area it was kind of business as usual.”
Police said the investigation was ongoing.
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