Las Vegas Strip Casino Shooting Gets Man Three To Sixteen Years

Most of the time when one thinks about the Las Vegas Strip there are thoughts of excitement and happiness. When one man thinks of the Strip, however, over the next three to sixteen years, he will think of regret.

Richard Earl Shepherd Jr. will spend the next three to sixteen years in jail after he plead guilty to a felony charge of attempted murder with a deadly weapon last month. He still maintains that he was defending himself, but admits to the shooting.

"He punches me first, and his friend who has nothing to do with it punches me," he said. He also claimed that the shooting was, "one of the stupidest things I ever did in my life."

The one thing that Shepherd did not try during his time in court was to deny the shooting. "...I can't say I didn't do it," he said. He will serve his time in state prison.

Shepherd has already served a year of his sentence. He has been held that long won a $250,000 bail. The men that Shepherd shot were not involved in the fight Shepherd describes, but his lawyer painted a different picture of the men.

He claimed that security cameras show that the two men, Vance Davis and Markael Ballou, were causing trouble with patrons of the casino. That did not, however, alter the outcome of the sentence.

August 23, 2008
Posted By Larry Rutherford
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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