A nightclub shooting on the Las Vegas Strip that left one man dead and three more injured early Monday morning began after a patron got upset over the club's cover charge, police said at a news conference.
Sometime around 5:30 a.m., police said, a man entered Drai's After Hours, a club at the Bally's casino that opens at 1 a.m. and closes at dawn, and has a $30 cover charge for men.
The man first asked the club's security officers if he could take a look around the club before paying the cover charge, which they allowed him to do, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sgt. John Sheahan told reporters.
But not long after paying to get into the club -- with dawn only about an hour away -- the man then approached security officers and the manager and asked for a refund, at which point an argument began, Sheahan said.
The man apparently shot the manager in the arm, Sheahan said, and then shot two more security guards who tried to wrestle him down. One patron was shot and killed while trying to leave the club, Sheahan said.
Security officers and other club patrons then physically subdued the man, who was hospitalized after the incident, Sheahan said. The club was locked down for investigators.
None of the men's identities or medical conditions have been released.
It was not immediately clear whether the club's security guards searched the man for weapons before allowing him to enter, or whether the nightclub has a weapons policy. A spokesman for Caesars Entertainment Corp., which owns Bally's, did not immediately return messages seeking comment early Monday morning.
Sheahan said he expected the suspect will be charged while in the hospital with homicide and attempted homicide charges but didn't specify what exact charges the suspect would face.
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Sometime around 5:30 a.m., police said, a man entered Drai's After Hours, a club at the Bally's casino that opens at 1 a.m. and closes at dawn, and has a $30 cover charge for men.
The man first asked the club's security officers if he could take a look around the club before paying the cover charge, which they allowed him to do, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sgt. John Sheahan told reporters.
But not long after paying to get into the club -- with dawn only about an hour away -- the man then approached security officers and the manager and asked for a refund, at which point an argument began, Sheahan said.
The man apparently shot the manager in the arm, Sheahan said, and then shot two more security guards who tried to wrestle him down. One patron was shot and killed while trying to leave the club, Sheahan said.
Security officers and other club patrons then physically subdued the man, who was hospitalized after the incident, Sheahan said. The club was locked down for investigators.
None of the men's identities or medical conditions have been released.
It was not immediately clear whether the club's security guards searched the man for weapons before allowing him to enter, or whether the nightclub has a weapons policy. A spokesman for Caesars Entertainment Corp., which owns Bally's, did not immediately return messages seeking comment early Monday morning.
Sheahan said he expected the suspect will be charged while in the hospital with homicide and attempted homicide charges but didn't specify what exact charges the suspect would face.
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