Last Frontier Casino Stabbing Spree: New Details of ‘Chuckling’ Attacker
The piece arrested on suspicion of carrying out a “random, unprovoked” knife lash out during a poker game biz at a Washington D.C. State cassino cobbler's last hebdomad has a lengthy criminal record, including legion(p) convictions for assault.
That’s according to prosecutors who described Robert Falcon Scott Harmier, 41, as a “danger to the public” at a Mark Wayne Clark County Court auditory modality inward Vancouver, Wash. shoemaker's last week.
Harmier was charged with four counts of first-degree assault with a deathly arm and I numerate of attempting to evade police. The jurist mark his bail at $1.5 million.
Sore Loser?
The defendant, clad inwards a whitened hoodie, was playing a fire hook gritty utmost Monday at the Last Frontier Casino inwards La Center shortly before midnight. That’s when he calmly lent over and allegedly began stabbing the player to his left inward the head word with a hunting knife.
Investigators who examined security footage said Harmier and then began attacking the adult female who had been positioned to his flop at the table.
When other casino patrons tried to tackle Harmier, he swung the weapon at them, according to courtyard documents. He then chased a adult male come out into the parking lot. When the victim cut down to the ground, Harmier allegedly stabbed him twice.
He then fled the casino in a whitened Nissan sedan, according to witnesses.
The tot keep down of victims of Harmier’s alleged violent disorder was five, not four, as reported shoemaker's last week. type A man and a woman were stabbed inwards the head and another adult female was stabbed twice inward the neck, according to judicature documents. Another adult male was stabbed in the forehead, wrist, and shoulder, closely to an artery. Meanwhile, a certificate safety was stabbed while trying to intervene.
Four of the victims were admitted to PeaceHealth southwestern United States Medical Center inward George Vancouver for handling and later released.
Police Chase
Deputies spotted Harmier’s vehicle traveling S on Interstate 205 toward the Oregon state line of business shortly after midnight and meshed in pursuit.
The Nissan was driving at speeds between 90 and 130 mph, according to the stop report. Deputies tried to hold the car, unsuccessfully, using spike strips. It was eventually stopped up(p) by a pursual immobilisation technique, or PIT maneuver.
As a deputy sheriff approached the car and told Harmier to exhibit his hands, the surmise “lit a fag and started smoking it as he smiled,” constabulary said.
Harmier was “chuckling” as he was taken into custody, according to the report.
Court records do not suggest a motive for the attack.