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[Music] all right [Music] Luxor Las Vegas on the Strip is owned and operated by MGM Resorts
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the Luxor is one of the most recognizable resorts in Las Vegas because it's basically a 30-story
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pyramid named after the city of Luxor in Egypt the resort is situated on the southern
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end of the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise Nevada According to some local folklore where
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the Luxor sits was once a popular burial ground for the victims of the mob victims whose Spirits might not rest so
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easily so when there maybe one should expect the unexpected after construction was completed the
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Luxor opened its doors to those looking for fun and excitement in 1993 the property features a 120
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000 square foot Casino with over 2 000 slot machines and 87 table games and hotel capacity of over 4
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400 rooms the property also includes 29 retail stores twenty thousand square feet of
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convention space four swimming pools and a wedding chapel should the mood strike
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you certainly we should mention the Luxor Sky Beam at over 42 billion Candela the
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Luxor Sky beam is the strongest beam of light in the world on a clear night it is visible up to 275 miles away by
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aircraft with such an impressive property and so much money flowing in and out of a large
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Casino one would expect top-notch security systems and personnel and in the luxor's 28 years of operation
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it would be quite interesting to review all of the strange shenanigans that have
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been captured by Hotel and Casino security cameras on Monday May 7 2007 around four in the
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morning the luxor's rooftop garage parking lot security camera filmed a most unusual situation
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the black and white video shows two people a man and a woman walking arm and arm through the hotel and then to the
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parking garage as they approached a parked sedan the couple let go of one another the lady
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walks to the passenger side of the vehicle and the man to the driver's side the man appears to spot something small
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sitting on the rooftop of the vehicle then a second later a flash burst on the surveillance cameras the man and woman
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are no longer visible to the parking lot camera the authorities were notified immediately that something strange and
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frightening was happening at the Luxor what was that blast and more importantly where are the two people
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this is true crime garage and this is the Luxor pipe bomb murder [Music] all right
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[Music] May 7 2007 just outside of the Luxor casino and resort at about 4 a.m in the
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morning security cameras watching the rooftop of the parking garage located directly behind the Luxor pyramid
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witnessed a burst of light a blast which was quickly thought to have been a bomb
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authorities were notified and in route now once on scene the parking entrances were sealed First Responders made their
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way to where the explosion took place from the security cameras view it appeared that the blast occurred when
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the man reached for a small item that was possibly sitting on the rooftop of a parked vehicle authorities quickly
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located a man and a woman near the sedan the man lying on the ground and bleeding
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from his head a couple of his fingers on his one hand were missing the explosion
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had ripped them off the woman was lying face down on the ground near the passenger side doors
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she was wedged between the car where the explosion came from and a second vehicle
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parked just to the right she too was reported to be in bad shape law enforcement is going to quickly seal off
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the entrances and exits to the parking garage yes with these entrances to the luxor's parking sealed off no one was
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coming and certainly no one other than the ambulances were leaving the two victims were rushed to the nearest
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hospital the ATF was brought in to assist in this whole situation and the investigation that would follow
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authorities were going vehicle to vehicle with bomb sniffing dogs meanwhile back at the hospital the man
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unfortunately was pronounced dead the female victim was injured but she was going to make it after a long morning
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with a lot of personnel working the scene from several agencies Las Vegas Police spokesman Bill Cassell was ready
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to update the public as to their findings and he offered up the following information
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one he denied that a backpack exploded two he denied that the Luxor received threats or that the luxor's employees
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received threats three he said it was a small blast and the bomb was not a terrorist act or a mob hit but an
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apparent murder of a man who worked at a business Inside the Hotel Deputy police chief Ted Mooney said
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quote this appears to have been a small device that was constructed in such a way to Target a single individual victim
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it was successful in doing that unfortunately end quote and for the safety of the surviving victim Las Vegas
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Police did not identify either the dead man or the injured female victim this is
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a crazy and very scary situation here captain and we've talked about these types of situations in the past on True
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Crime garage but picture this you are in a very public location and I get that it's 4 a.m but right it's the city that
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never sleeps and so we have a public area a public venue and there's this bomb that goes off in the parking area
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and we already know that we have one fatality we have another person who seems to be injured or at least was
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taken to the hospital and now we have authorities on the scene trying to figure out exactly what happened this is
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a place where you got a lot of people coming in and out at all hours of the night and fortunately it's not one of
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these shooter situations and apparently based off of what we can piece together from law enforcement who are filling in
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the blanks after working the scene they're saying hey public don't worry this appears to have been a targeted
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attack we believe that the target was probably unfortunately killed in this attack but if you're law enforcement you
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have to be hopeful that because it's such a public area that you're going to have some kind of surveillance maybe not
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in the garage but in other businesses surrounding the garage correct and so we have spokesman Bill Cassell said that
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this was not a terrorist event and detectives believe the victim was the intended target of the device and
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characterized the sling as a homicide with an unusual weapon that from Ken Ritter reporting for the associate press
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interesting situation here Captain a bomb goes off that police quickly tell us it was a small homemade explosive
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device left sitting on the roof of this sedan that was parked at the Luxor some reports state that the woman was not
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injured others say that she was not extremely injured so I'm a little unclear of her injuries but either way
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she would have received some form of treatment at the hospital I'm guessing as she was awfully close to the
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explosion obviously the other thing here is being a large venue in a public place
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we are very lucky very lucky that there was not further damage or greater loss of life the other thing here too
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as you're pointing out here Captain is we are going to get lucky that there is surveillance camera monitoring this area
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in fact reports suggest that we would have had at least two cameras for this area if not three those cameras captured
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the explosion as you know captain and I'm a betting man well I would be willing to bet that this
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small explosive device didn't just magically fall from the sky and land on this poor guy's car so of course
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detectives will be watching and reviewing all of that available surveillance footage to see how that
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bomb found its way to that man's vehicle who put it there well we also have to be
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hopeful that the Survivor makes it and then they can give us information let's review the damage done here captain
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the murdered victim was identified as willabaldo durantes Antonio and sadly he was just 24 years old Mr Antonio was
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attempting to get into the driver's side of the vehicle when the bomb went off the vehicle that the bomb was placed on
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top of was confirmed to be his when the device exploded it blew a 12-inch hole in Mr Antonio's 1996 Dodge Stratus
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the bomb tore off some of his fingers and sent a piece of metal through his head oh that's awful which killed him so
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just like we saw here Captain with the Unabomber case with Ted Kaczynski he planted these small motion activated or
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his pressure bombs it's not necessarily the explosion that kills it's the shrapnel
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unfortunately that was the case here as well and often is the case with these small explosive devices couldn't imagine
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your fingers being blown off it seems like he didn't die instantly though it seems like he possibly died
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from bleeding out he died from the head injury yes so we covered the unabom case
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in April of 2021 episodes 482 and 483 if anybody would like to go back and give those a listen incredible trailers on
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those episodes by the way the captain doing gangbusters work on the music and yours truly doing his typical Robert
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Stack uh lead in okay so people call those genius I'm not saying they are I'm just saying
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some people say that I call myself a Robert Stack wannabe on this moment yeah I call myself a Guinness right our
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victim will abaldo Antonio worked at the Luxor he worked at the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog business which was and still is
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one of a handful of non-casino businesses that remain open all night located on the second floor at the food
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court near an arcade and there's several other shops inside the Luxor pretty Kick-Ass hot dogs there too hashtag not
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a sponsor the lady that was walking with him Captain was reported to be his girlfriend her name is Karen shally she
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worked at Nathan's in the Luxor as well with this man and as said this was a small explosive device clearly a
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homemade device described as a small metal pipe bomb that contained an explosive powder and a nine volt battery
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which was hidden in a plastic cup that was partially filled with that spray foam insulation stuff
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this was placed on top of Willa Baldo's Dodge Stratus the device exploded when he picked it up to remove it from his
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car so that motion activated the bomb now will a Baldo Antonio sadly passed away at the hospital two hours after
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arriving the medical examiner determined that a large fragment of metal entered the victim's brain creating a seven
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centimeter Furrow the autopsy also revealed torn skin and abrasions on his face a mangled right hand and missing
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skin on his upper right arm the explosion occurred on the rooftop parking garage the shrapnel penetrated
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nearby vehicles and pieces of the bomb were scattered across the parking structure the parking structure and the
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casino though were not really damaged the casino not at all just some of the vehicles but nothing significant to the
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parking structure and of course the distance that it went off did not allow for damage to the casino at first people
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thought that this might be a terrorist attack right we hear bomb we hear explosion that's what our minds go to
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but quickly law enforcement said no not a terrorist attack and that they had no reason to believe that anyone else was
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in danger of a similar attack because this was a planned targeted attack and the hotel was not even evacuated the
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general business operations were not interrupted by this explosion with the exception of that parking garage area
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again very sad that this young man lost his life but we were still lucky that more people were not hurt or killed we
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also well we get lucky in the investigation process and here's how Captain first law
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enforcement were able to find on surveillance how the bomb got to Mr Antonio's vehicle surveillance video
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shows a silver Chevrolet Cobalt drive around the rooftop garage for a while and then pull up and park next to
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Antonio sedan this took place approximately 90 minutes before the bomb went off when looking at the footage
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this all went down in the top right corner of the garage if you were looking at this on a television screen and
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reviewing the footage yourself think about this though they're telling us that this is a targeted attack
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but how dangerous is this whole situation we know that it already killed one man but whoever placed this bomb on
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top of his vehicle placed it 90 minutes there before he walked up to it moved it
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and was killed by the bomb right anybody walking through there could have picked
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this item up off of his vehicle or you know it could have been a worker come through and clear off some trash
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and throw it away a teenager a young adult somebody else in the area bump into the car I mean there's any kind of
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scenario that we can look at and go hey we know that this is targeted but because of where the target takes place
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and where the attack takes place and where the bombs planted anybody could have could have upset that bomb and become
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victim to that bomb not just the Target and a couple things here one I think because there's two
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victims one survives but I think she only survived because he took the brunt of the damage
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but this material that they use we're not talking about expensive items this was very cheap to make
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so once you have possibly one target how many other bombs could this individual place on other cars yeah and that that
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is just terrifying to me and we talk about this so often on the show how quickly life turns on a dime I guarantee
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you this man who woke up on that day who fell victim to this bomb thought he was going home that night
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thought he was just having another day at work and was going to you know go do his thing after work well we get lucky
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here too Captain we get lucky a second time because as you pointed out our survivor our other victim
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she survives and this is Mr Antonio's girlfriend Karen she tells police some much needed information and this is
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probably where they're getting the hey we don't feel like anybody else in the public is at risk here we don't see any
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kind of threat to the general public or even others at the Luxor this is based off of her information as
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what I would believe Karen and Antonio were walking arm and arm through the hotel to the parking garage these are
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her words they both had just finished a late night shift at Nathan's they were working together that night they get to
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the car and as we said earlier she goes to the passenger side willabaldo goes to
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the driver's side he then makes a joke to Karen about someone leaving him a cup of coffee this is the cup that's sitting
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on his vehicle right and after making the joke he then reaches for the cup and just as he picks it up the explosion
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happens now at that very same moment Karen makes the life-saving split-second decision to drop immediately to the
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ground this right when the bomb went off so she drops down and she then became shielded
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by the car Karen tells authorities she started dating Antonio about a year before his
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death this was after she broke up with her ex Omar Rueda Denver's Omar don't like your name change it but I mean just
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to pause for a second though if you're watching Batman or something these uh terrorist attacks or these
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bombs that are sent they're normally sent to a mayor a doctor maybe a lawyer maybe somebody in law enforcement
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you don't think somebody that is working at Nathan's serving hot dogs he's in the hot dog business
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it's usually a pretty friendly business yeah you'd think somebody unless Oscar Meyer
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has an issue with him just doesn't seem like somebody that you would Target an attack of this nature so she breaks
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up with her ex and then shortly afterwards starts dating the victim now she says that she met her ex Omar in
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2001 at the San Carlos University in Guatemala she became pregnant soon after later the two had a daughter now she
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says they broke up in 2006 and by that point they were both in the United States in August of 2006 Omar was
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certainly not shy about letting her know that he wants to get back together with
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Karen but she refuses and things really start to get weird quickly after this on
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one occasion Karen agrees to meet him at a park so that Omar can see his daughter
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after the visit Omar follows her home and when she gets out of the car he tries to hit her with his vehicle and an
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obvious very childish but very dangerous fit of rage this guy sounds like a psychopath after this Omar starts going
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to the Luxor when Karen is working and threatening her and he starts threatening Willow Baldo as well when he
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sees him there both end up telling their employer about Omar's threats and on at
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least one occasion Captain Omar was removed from the Luxor property by the Luxor security well it's bad combination
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somebody that doesn't like you and has a lot of time on their hands but good for
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us here Captain because now we have a suspect and we have this vehicle description
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but we do have a problem with the investigation because the vehicle seen on surveillance well it does not match
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the vehicle belonging to Omar well it seems like they have a pretty clear-cut vision of this the the vehicle and they
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can even get a license plate but I don't think it's as clear as who is operating the vehicle correct so what
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we have here Captain police they have stills still images of the vehicle that pulled
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up next to Willa Baldo's car the vehicle was only there for about 20 or so seconds is what police say now the
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still images were blurry but let's bring on one of law enforcement's greatest of allies
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crowdsourcing notice here too captain that they didn't wait for 10 15 or 26 years later to release these images to
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the public those years I just rattled off are not random numbers either these are actual time frames that we've seen
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in other cases where they wait to crowdsource something from their investigation for 4 10 15 or even 26
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years later good luck with that here they do it immediately Captain because they know they need the Public's help
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and boom they get it in return so with the Public's help they identify what kind of car that they were looking
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for and then after a traffic stop a few days later they end up identifying the driver or at least the owner we should
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say the owner of the vehicle not necessarily the driver they pull over a vehicle matching the
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description of the one that placed the bomb on top of Willow Baldo's vehicle they speak to the driver of this car
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they find out that she is in fact the owner but very quickly police learn that she knows Omar Danvers she says in fact
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she dated him at one time but the two the romance didn't last but they they stayed friends well because he's a
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psychopath when asked if she would ever let Omar borrow her vehicle she did say yes but she said not recently and this
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is just a couple days after the explosion when police fill her in on the situation she tells them that recently
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she noticed that her spare key to her Chevy Cobalt was missing [Music] all right
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[Music] [Music] [Music] all right we are back the windows to the walls cheers everybody
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thanks for joining us cheers to you Captain so we have this situation this bomb goes off immediately police are
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aware after speaking to the surviving victim that hey we possibly have a suspect right away this guy has already
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threatened me and threatened the deceased and his name is Omar you should be looking for this guy well here's what we
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have we have two victims one survives that's in law enforcement's favor we have this time where arm Omar tries
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to run over one of the victims with his car now that's just hearsay but what we do have
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Omar on record going to the place of her employment where pretty much this this attempted
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murder on both victims takes place and then we have this vehicle well he doesn't own the vehicle but he has
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access to the vehicle he knows the owner so there's a lot of things lining up in
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law enforcement's favor well and there's a lot of stuff that's moving very quickly for law enforcement and they're
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doing a lot of stuff really behind the scenes here the difficult part was trying to okay
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this vehicle doesn't match Omar's vehicle so how do we if that's our Prime Suspect we need to figure out how that
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part of the story worked how did that work for him to still be the prime suspect and after some help from the
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public they're able to speak with the owner of that vehicle that matches that direct that direct description
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so of course now we're going to go and try to find Omar and talk to him so law enforcement well they do just that they
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go and pick up this Omar Danvers and they conduct an interview with him now he of course he's going to deny any
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involvement at all in this bombing but hand this man a shovel here captain and watch him dig his own grave because
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after further questioning he admits to driving the Chevy Cobalt on the night of the Luxor bomb incident in fact he says
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that he drove it to the Luxor looking for his daughter right he then went on to admit to police that he followed his
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ex-girlfriend extensively sometimes in his vehicle or with This Woman's Chevy Cobalt and even admitted that he knew
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Karen's work schedule and that he knew she was dating Mr Antonio and what kind of vehicle Mr Antonio drove so he's
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willing to admit to a whole lot of things that would really implicate him in this murder
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with the exception of I had nothing to do with making a bomb or placing a bomb on this man's car yeah but hold on a
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damn minute he's driving a car that he doesn't have the authorization to be driving he basically
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stole his ex-girlfriend's spare key and is driving around a vehicle that he's not supposed to be driving
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around well one thing that gets really a little weird here for the detectives is
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somehow police get on to some other guy right they start to move on to an additional suspect so they're not
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replacing Omar as their Prime Suspect but instead adding another suspect to the equation a second individual
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involved in the murder but no this wasn't the woman who owned the Chevy Cobalt no this was a very close friend
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of Omar's this is Mr perfirio diority Herrera the way that I believe that they get onto this guy is
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we have this situation where they have the surveillance footage correct right so when reviewing this footage
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the person that placed the bomb on top of Mr Antonio's vehicle right came from the passenger side
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so now we have two people that we're looking for we know the car that we're looking for and we have two people that
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we need to put inside that car one of them placed the bomb and one of them was driving and my guess here Captain is
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that they you know they say we interviewed this woman who owned the car my guess is they probably grilled her
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pretty hard knowing that we're looking for two individuals yeah they held it down and tortured it like a vicious
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animal and probably telling her look we get what you're saying that your spare key is magically missing we get what
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you're saying that Omar used to borrow your car but the problem is that doesn't remove you
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as a suspect that doesn't completely remove you from this equation of when and who put the bomb on top of Omar's
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vehicle so she probably starts saying look he knows this other guy you're going to want to look at him too
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regardless of what Omar tells you when you interview him law enforcement has to think of it as an A to B situation she
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has access to the car is she helping Omar we know that the individual that gets out of the passenger side is a as a
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male so hey she's driving the car and Omar's the one that gets out and places the bomb on top of the car armed with
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all of this information now law enforcement will search Omar's vehicle inside his vehicle they find a pair of
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wire cutters electrical tape a current tester wires and keys to the Chevy Cobalt
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then they go to his work and he did maintenance at a condo complex and in his maintenance shed they
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find a box of nine volt batteries the nine volt batteries here this package and the other batteries found in the
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shed were the same type and same manufacturer as the battery used in the bomb so it's not like having DNA but it tells
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you hey you're probably on the right track here and of course they're going to interview this pafirio too
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And he as well Captain will deny any involvement at all you know I didn't do it I don't know anything and but
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eventually he's going to admit that and these are his words he goes from not admitting anything to something
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that gets him very close to making him suspect number one saying quote that he made a bomb
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and that he knew it was going to go off at the Luxor stupid then he denied that he was the one that placed the bomb or
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activated the bomb in any way at all But ultimately he's going to tweak his story again and again and this is when
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he tells law enforcement and this is from the record although he was hesitant at first of placing the bomb on the car
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because it was not his problem he told police he did say that he placed the bomb near
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the center of the roof of the car towards the driver's side and he eventually tells law enforcement that
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the bomb had been placed in a cup and then a magnet was placed in the cup so that the bomb would stay on top of Mr
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Antonio's car until someone moved it this is very interesting here Captain because we talk often about Police Hold
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Back information and when they describe the bomb in the papers and when they're telling the public about the incident
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that took place at the Luxor they're telling us how the bomb was made what it was constructed of very Loosely but at
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the same time they're telling us that this was a targeted attack and that's probably based off of most of the
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statements of the surviving victim but they're also saying there's no threat to the public
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and this makes sense here because they're looking at the psychology of one the bomb How It Was Made its size what
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damage one could expect it to do but plus they didn't tell anybody in the public about this magnet this was their
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hold back information to to that when they had the right person sitting across from them at the table right when
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they're grilling them you know tell us something that only you would know or how can you prove to me that you're
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telling the truth well this piece of information never made its way to the public this magnet that was put there
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with the idea that it would keep the bomb on top of this vehicle thus almost making sure that they would hit
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their targets closest thing I think that law enforcement is going to get to a full-blown confession
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yeah I think you're right here not pun intended right now they've they also find what they're calling bomb making
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materials imperferio's residents both men were arrested and charged with murder and a bunch of other charges as
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well came with this police publicly announced that they had no reason to believe that the woman who owned the
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Chevy Cobalt was involved in any way so no charges were brought against her in relation to the bomb
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now in a strange turn of events here captain we would later learn that Omar Denver's
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[ __ ] princess the prime suspect the man who was hell-bent on killing his ex-girlfriend in her current boyfriend
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right Omar Danvers was not his real name surprise surprise that in fact was the name of a former employer of his who he
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worked for when he lived in Panama so this Man's real name is Alexander Perez so this is discovered when the real Omar
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Danvers sees the news of this bombing and then sees that somebody was arrested connected to this bomb
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his name his own name is connected to the bombing so he's outraged and he calls the FBI and lets them know hey uh
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this is who I am I'm Omar Danvers that guy's name is not Omar Danvers and I had nothing to do with this bombing the real
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Omar Rueda Denver's once employed the man that the police now know to be Alexander Perez once Perez made his way
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to the states and ultimately Las Vegas he started using that name he stole that name of
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his one-time employer and using it as his own come on man use your own real name law enforcement prosecutor surmised
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that the two men Omar roeda Denver's real name Alexander Perez whose age is 31 years old in perforio durarte Herrera
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27 killed Willa Baldo durantes Antonio age 24 by building a bomb and placing it in a cup on top of the Dodge Stratus on
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the driver's side of the vehicle they determined that perforio was the one who built and placed the bomb on the car and
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of course Perez was trying to kill his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend out of jealousy Omar was obsessed with Karen
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and watched and followed her both men were facing the death penalty and they stood trial together it took some time
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because they would not be convicted until 2010 the bombing took place in 2007. both were sentenced to life
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imprisonment without the possibility of parole and will spend the rest of their lives in prison
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now in another strange turn here Captain perforio was also found guilty of planting a bomb outside of the Las Vegas
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Home Depot store on Halloween back in 2006 which blasted shards of metal over a wide area
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into a busy street prosecutors said it was incredibly lucky that no one was injured or killed in that bombing one of
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the ship bags in the ship bag salad already placed a bomb at another location because it I just don't
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understand how Omar got him involved it's unclear how these two were friends but they were friends for quite some
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time and according to the woman that owned the Chevy Cobalt she said that in the time frame leading up to the bomb at
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the Luxor that these two individuals saw each other daily as far as she was aware so
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they were very close to one another but it can't be understated what the words of detectives and police were at
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the time shortly after arresting both of these individuals they were up front and
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saying look we know this was targeted but we we want everybody to understand just how
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dangerous these two men are these two men together are you have one person that's so jealous that he's willing to
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kill two people and then you have another individual that seems to be into making bombs
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and later when perforio is interviewed and asked about this bomb and and these two bombs that he he created
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he really to me just seems like a weird a very strange individual Captain because the way that he makes it sound
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is basically like I'm at home tinkering around and I figured out that I could make a bomb and that he placed it at the
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Home Depot just to see if he was successful in making this bomb if it would in fact go off this guy is such a
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psychopath he's it's he's treating it like it's a video game he doesn't care if anybody at the Home Depot was killed
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in the parking lot right he made a bomb and wanted to see if it worked and if it
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would go off and if it would do its thing do what he constructed it to do and it's a shame that one you know that
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he didn't blow himself up in the process of learning how to create these homemade
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bombs yeah which we see a lot of bombers blow themselves up the other thing too that we have to factor in is think about
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the the premeditation involved in the attack that killed Mr Antonio so we have the one individual Omar or sorry
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Perez I keep using his his fake name but Mr Perez who he knows this individual's vehicle he
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knows the work schedules it's said when they were reviewing the surveillance footage another reason why they believed
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it to be targeted not just the the magnet but when the vehicle the Cobalt entered the parking area they drove
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around for several minutes as if they were looking for something specific and then they pull up next to the Dodge
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Stratus someone gets out places the bomb on top of the vehicle they get back in and they drive off
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but this was very premeditated to the point of these two individuals had to have a a a discussion at some point of
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hey I want to kill these two people and the other losers saying yeah I know how to make bombs
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okay well when can we place a bomb and take these two out so there's a lot of premeditated planning that went into
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this type of attack and think about how little it took for both of these individuals to be willing to kill two
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people yeah and then you wonder if maybe some money was going to change hands for
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his involvement but both these guys are loose cannons well and we have a couple things that take place here uh Captain
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one these two are going to be tried together but but look at it this way because Mr Perez is not he's not saying
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yes I did the bombing he's saying yeah I knew all this other stuff but I had nothing to do with the bombing and then
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we have Mr Herrera who is telling police I didn't place the bomb I didn't activate the bomb but yes I made a bomb
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and I knew that it was supposed to go off at the Luxor so you don't really have either of them providing you with a
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full confession and so when you're at trial you're trying both of these individuals together not only are they
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saying hey I was somewhat involved but not fully involved I'm not completely responsible they're also both kind of
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pointing the finger at one another and suggesting hey Mr Herrera may have done this on his own or hey Mr Perez may have
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done this on his own right and what ends up happening here Captain we have to fast forward to a few years later and
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actually just a couple years ago because what changes for Mr Perez is that later
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is when Mr Herrera is convicted of the Home Depot bomb which we know took place in our timeline
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before the bomb at the Luxor right so a few years ago Mr Perez is granted a new trial in 2019 this is based off of the
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appeal that he had not been able to cross-examine his co-defendant who had given incriminating evidence to the
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police so what they're saying basically here Captain is it was not known that Mr Herrera was going to be found guilty
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of a previous bombing attack and therefore this could not be addressed at that original trial and now
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Mr Perez who was always pointing the finger at Mr Herrera once the jury and the judge and everyone to know that here
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this is further evidence that I was not involved what he's saying his his defense in 2019 when he gets a new trial
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is basically this look I borrowed the Chevy Cobalt I went to the Luxor that night looking for my daughter looking
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for my ex hoping that finding my ex I could see my daughter I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and he's
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also saying another way that he had bad luck because he was friends with this person who he's now calling a weirdo in
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2019 saying he's basically a person that has a history of bomb making number one
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but two an individual that was obsessed with making bombs and probably obsessed with blowing things up as well these
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garage boys are here and happy to report that boom all these years later still found guilty
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