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crime [Music] all all [Music] Luxor Las Vegas on the Strip is owned and operated by MGM
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Resorts 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 end of the Las Vegas Strip in
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Paradise Nevada According to some local folklore where the Luxor sits was once a
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popular burial ground for the victims of the mob victims whose Spirits might not rest
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so easily so when there maybe one should expect the unexpected after construction was
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completed the Luxor opened its doors to those looking for fun and excitement in 1993 the property features a
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120,000 ft casino with over 2,000 slot machines and 87 table games and hotel capacity of over 4,400
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rooms the property also includes 29 retail stores 20,000 Square ft of convention space four swimming pools and
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a wedding chapel should the mood strike you and certainly we should mention the Luxor Skybeam at over 42 billion Candela
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the Luxor Skybeam is the strongest beam of light in the world on a clear night it is visible up to 275 M Away by
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aircraft with such an impressive property and so much money flowing in and out of a large Casino one would
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expect top-notch security systems and personnel and in the luxor's 28 years of operation it would be quite interesting
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to review all of the strange shenanigans that have been captured by Hotel and Casino security
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cameras on Monday May 7th 2007 around 4 in the morning the luxor's rooftop garage parking lot security
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camera filmed a most unusual situation the black and white video shows two people a man and a woman
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walking arm in arm through the hotel and then to the parking garage as they approached a parked sedan the couple let
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go of one another the lady walks to the passenger side of the vehicle and the man to the driver's side the man appears
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to spot something small sitting on the rooftop of the vehicle then a second later a flash burst on the surveillance
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cameras the man and woman are no longer visible to the parking lot camera the authorities were notified immediately
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that something strange and frightening was happening at the Luxor what was that blast and more importantly where are the
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two people this is true crime garage and this is the Luxor pipe bomb [Music] murder May 7th 2017 just outside of the
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Luxor casino in Resort at about 4:00 a.m. in the morning security cameras watching the rooftop of the parking
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garage located directly behind the Luxor pyramid witnessed a burst of light a blast which was quickly thought to have
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been a bomb authorities were notified and in route now once on scene the parking entrances were sealed First
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Responders made their way to where the explosion took place from the security camera's view it appeared that the blast
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occurred when the man reached for a small item that was possibly sitting on the rooftop of a parked vehicle
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authorities LLY located a man and a woman near the sedan the man lying on the ground and bleeding from his head a
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couple of his fingers on his one hand were missing the explosion had ripped them off the woman was lying fa down on
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the ground near the passenger side doors she was wedged between the car where the
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explosion came from and a second vehicle parked just to the right she too was reported to be in bad shape law
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enforcement is going to quickly seal off the entrances and exits to the parking garage yes with these entrances to the
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Luxor parking sealed off no one was coming and certainly no one other than the ambulances were leaving the two
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victims were rushed to the nearest hospital the ATF was brought in to assist in this whole situation and the
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investigation that would follow authorities were going vehicle to vehicle with bomb sniffing dogs
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meanwhile back at the hospital the man unfortunately was pronounced dead the female victim was injured but she was
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going to make it after a long morning with a lot of personnel working the scene from several agencies Las Vegas
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Police spokesman Bill Cassel was ready to update the public as to their findings and he offered up the following
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information one he denied that a backpack exploded two two he denied that the Luxor received threats or that the
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luxor's employees received threats three he said it was a small blast and the bomb was not a terrorist act or a mob
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hit but an 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 4:00 a.m. but right it's the city
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that never sleeps and so we have a public area a public venue and there's this bomb that goes off in the parking
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area 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 and apparently based off of what we can piece together from law enforcement who
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are filling in the blanks after working the scene they're saying hey public don't worry this appears to have been a
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targeted attack we believe that the target was probably unfortunately killed in this attack but if you're a law
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enforcement you have to be hopeful that because it's such a public area that you're going to have some kind of
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surveillance maybe not in the garage but in other businesses surrounding the garage
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correct and so we have spokesman Bill Cassel said that this was not a terrorist event and detectives believed
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the victim was the intended target of the device and characterized the slang as a homicide with an unusual weapon
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that from Ken Ritter reporting for the associate press interesting situation here Captain a bomb goes off that police
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quickly tell us it was a small homemade explosive device left sitting on the roof of this sedan that was parked at
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the Luxor some reports state that the woman was not injured others say that she was not extremely injured so I'm a
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little unclear of her injuries but either way she would have received some form of treatment at the hospital I'm
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guessing as she was awfully close to the explosion obviously the other thing here
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is being a large venue in a public place we are very lucky very lucky that there
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was not further damage or greater loss of life the other thing here too as you're pointing out here Captain is we
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are going to get lucky that there is surveillance camera monitoring this area in fact reports suggest that we would
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have had at least two cameras for this area if not three those cameras captured the explosion as you know captain and
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I'm a betting man well I would be willing to bet that this small explosive device didn't just magically fall from
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the sky and land on this poor guy's car so of course detectives will be watching
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and reviewing all of that available surveillance footage to see how that bomb found its way to that man's vehicle
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who put it there well we also have to be hopeful that the Survivor makes it and then they can give us information let's
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review the damage done here Captain the murdered victim was identified as wialo Dantes Antonio and sadly he was just 24
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years old Mr Antonio was attempting to get into the driver's side of the vehicle when the bomb went off the
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vehicle that the bomb was placed on top of was confirmed to be his when the device exploded it blew a 12-in hole in
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Mr Antonio's 1996 Dodge Stratus the bomb tore off some of his fingers and sent a
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piece of metal through his head oh that's awful which killed him so just like we saw here Captain with the
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unibomber case with Ted kazinski he planted these small motion activated or his pressure bombs it's not necessarily
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the explosion that kills it's the shrapnell unfortunately that was the case here as well and often is the case
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with these small explosive devices couldn't imagine your fingers being blown off seems like he didn't die
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instantly though it seems like he possibly died from bleeding out he died from the head injury yes so we covered
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the unib bomb case in April of 2021 episodes 482 and 483 if anybody would like to go back and give those a listen
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incredible trailers on those episodes by the way the captain doing Gang Busters work on the music and yours truly doing
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his typical Robert Stack uh lead in hey some people call those genius I'm not saying they are I'm just
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saying some people say that I call myself a Robert Stack wannabe on those moments I call myself a Guinness right
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our victim will abalo Antonio worked at the Luxor he worked at the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog business which was and
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still is 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 # not a
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sponsor the lady that was walking with him Captain was reported to be his girlfriend her name is Karen shy 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 9volt battery
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which was hidden in a plastic cup that was partially filled with that spray foam insulation stuff this was placed on
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top of willb Baldo's Dodge Stratus the device exploded when he picked it up to remove it from his car so that motion
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activated the bomb now will abalo Antonio sadly passed away at the hospital 2 hours after arriving the
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medical examiner determined that a large fragment of metal entered the victim's brain creating a 7 cm Furrow the autopsy
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also revealed skin and abrasions on his face a mangled right hand and missing skin on his upper right arm the
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explosion occurred on the rooftop parking garage the shrap nail penetrated nearby vehicles and pieces of the bomb
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were scattered across the parking structure the parking structure and the casino though were not really damaged
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the casino not at all just some of the vehicles but nothing significant to the parking structure and of course the
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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
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the 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 enforcement were able
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to find on surveillance how the bomb got to Mr Antonio's vehicle surveillance video shows a silver Chevrolet Cobalt
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drive around the rooftop garage for a while and then pull up and park next to Antonio sedan this took place
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approximately 90 minutes before the bomb went off when looking at the footage this all went down in the top right
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corner of the garage if you were looking at this on a television screen and reviewing the footage yourself think
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about this though they're telling us that this is a target targeted attack but how dangerous is this whole
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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 and
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throw it away a teenager a young adult somebody else in the area bump into the car I mean there's any kind of scenario
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that we can look at and go hey we know that this is targeted but because of where the target takes place and where
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the attack takes place and where the bomb's planted anybody could have could have upset that bomb and become victim
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to that bomb not just the Target and a couple things here one I think because there's two victims one survives but I
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think she only survived because he took the brunt of the damage but this material that they used
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we're not talking about expensive items this was very cheap to make so once you have possibly one
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target how many other bombs could this individual place on other cars yeah and that that is just terrifying to me and
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we talk about this so often on the show how quickly life turns on a dime I guarantee you this man who woke up on
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that day who fell victim to this bomb thought he was going home that night thought he was just having another day
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at work and was going to you know go do his thing after work well we get lucky here too Captain we get lucky a second
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time because as you pointed out our survivor our other victim she survives and this is Mr Antonio's girlfriend
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Karen she tells police some much needed information and this is probably where they're getting the hey we don't feel
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like anybody else in the public is at risk here we don't see any kind of threat to the general public or even
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others at the Luxor this is based off of her information is what I would believe
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Karen and Antonio were walking arm in-arm through the hotel to the parking garage these are her words they both had
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just finished a late night shift at Nathan's they were working together that night they get to the car and as we said
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earlier she goes to the passenger side willab Baldo goes to the driver's side he then makes a joke to Karen about
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someone leaving him a cup of coffee this is the cup that's sitting on his vehicle
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right and after making the joke he then reaches for the cup and just as he picks
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it up the explosion happens now at that very same moment Karen makes the life saving Split Second decision to drop
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immediately to the ground this right when the bomb went off so she drops down and she then became shielded by the car
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mhm Karen tells authorities she started dating Antonio about a year before his death this was after she broke up with
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her ex Omar Rueda Denver Omar don't like your name change it but I mean just to pause for a second though if you're
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watching Batman or something these uh terrorist attacks or these bombs that are sent they're
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normally sent to a mayor a doctor maybe a lawyer maybe somebody in law enforcement you don't think somebody
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that is working at Nathan's serving hot dogs he's in the hot dog business it's usually a pretty
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friendly business yeah you'd think somebody unless Oscar merer has an issue with him just doesn't seem like somebody
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that you would Target in an attack of this nature so she breaks up with her ex and then shortly afterwards starts
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dating the victim now she says that she met her ex Omar in 2001 at the San Carlos University in
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Guatemala she became pregnant soon after later the two had a daughter now she says they broke up in 2006 and by that
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point they were both in the United States in August of 2006 Omar was certainly not shy about letting her know
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that he wants to get back together with 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 the Luxor when Karen is working and threatening her and he starts threatening willab Baldo as well
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when he sees him there both end up telling their employer about Omar's threats and on at least one occasion
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Captain Omar was removed from the Luxor property by the Luxor security well it's
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bad combination somebody that doesn't like you and has a lot of time on their hands but good for us here Captain
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because now we have suspect and we have this vehicle description but we do have a problem with the investigation because
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the vehicle seen on surveillance well it does not match the vehicle belonging to
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Omar one it seems like they have a pretty clearcut vision of this the vehicle and they can even get a license
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plate but I don't think it's as clear as who is operating the vehicle correct so
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what we have here Captain police they have Stills Still images of the vehicle that pulled up next to will Baldo's car
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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
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allies crowd sourcing notice here too captain that they didn't wait 4 10 15 or 26 years later to release these images
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to the public those years I just rattled off are not random numbers either these
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are actual time frames that we've seen in other cases where they wait to crowdsource something from their
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investigation for 4 10 15 or even 26 years later good luck with that here they do it immediately Captain because
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they know they need the Public's help and boom they get it in return boom Shak so with the Public's help they identify
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what kind of car that they were looking for and then after a traffic stop a few days later they end up identifying the
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driver or at least the owner we should say the owner of the vehicle not necessarily the driver they pull over a
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vehicle matching the description of the one that placed the bomb on top of willab Baldo's vehicle they speak to the
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driver of this car they find out that she is in fact the owner but very quickly police learn that she knows Omar
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Denver's she says in fact she dated him at one time but the two the romance didn't last but they they stayed friends
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well because he's a psychopath when asked if she would ever let Omar borrow her vehicle she did say yes but she said
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not recently and this is just a couple days after the explosion when police fill her in on the situation she tells
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them that recently she noticed that her spare key to her Chevy Cobalt was missing
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windows to the walls cheers everybody thanks for joining us cheers to you Captain so we have this situation
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this bomb goes off immediately police are aware after speaking to the surviving victim that hey we possibly
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have a suspect right away this guy has already threatened me and threatened the deceased and his name is Omar you should
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be looking for this guy well here's what we have we have two victims one survives
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that's in law enforcement's favor we have this time where AR Omar tries to run over one of the victims with his car
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now that's just hearsay but what we do have Omar on record going to the place of her
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employment where pretty much this this attempted murder on both victims takes place and then we have this vehicle well
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he doesn't own the vehicle but he has 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
00:31:08
doing a lot of stuff really behind the scenes here the difficult part was trying to okay this vehicle doesn't
00:31:16
match Omar's vehicle so how do we if that's our Prime Suspect we need to figure out how that part of the story
00:31:23
worked how did that work for him to still be the prime suspect and after some help from the public they're able
00:31:30
to speak with the owner of that vehicle that matches that direct that direct description so of course now we're going
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to go and try to find Omar and talk to him so law enforcement well they do just that they go and pick up this Omar
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Denver and they conduct an interview with him now he of course he's going to deny any involvement at all in this
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bombing but hand this man a shovel here captain and watch him dig his own grave because after further questioning he
00:32:05
admits to driving the Chevy Cobalt on the night of the luxur bomb incident in fact he says that he drove it to the
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Luxor looking for his daughter right he then went on to admit to police that he followed his ex-girlfriend
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extensively sometimes in his vehicle or with This Woman's Chevy Cobalt and even admitted that he knew Karen's work
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schedule and that he knew she was dating Mr Antonio and what kind of vehicle Mr Antonio drove so he's willing to admit
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to a whole lot of things that would really implicate him in this murder with the exception of I had nothing to do
00:32:44
with making a bomb or placing a bomb on this man's car yeah but hold on a damn minute he is driving a car that he
00:32:52
doesn't have the authorization to be driving driving he basically stole his ex-girlfriend's
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spare key and it's driving around a vehicle that he's not supposed to be driving around well one thing that gets
00:33:09
really a little weird here for the detectives is somehow police get on to some other guy right they start to move
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on to an additional suspect so they're not replacing Omar as their Prime Suspect but instead adding another
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suspect to the equation a second individual involved in the murder but no this wasn't the woman who owned the
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Chevy Cobalt no this was a very close friend of Omars this is Mr perero diardi Herrera the way that I believe that they
00:33:41
get on to this guy is we have this situation where they have the surveillance footage correct
00:33:48
right so when reviewing this footage the person that placed the bomb on top of Mr Antonio's vehicle vehicle
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right came from the passenger side mhm so now we have two people that we're looking for we know the car that we're
00:34:04
looking for and we have two people that we need to put inside that car one of them placed the bomb and one of them was
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driving and my guess here Captain is that they you know they say we interviewed this woman who owned the car
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my guess is they probably grilled her pretty hard knowing that we're looking for two individuals yeah they held her
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down and tortured her like a vicious animal and probably telling her look we get what you're saying that your spare
00:34:28
keys magically missing we get what you're saying that Omar used to borrow your car but the problem is that doesn't
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remove you as a suspect that doesn't completely remove you from this equation of when and who put the bomb on top of
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Omar's vehicle so she probably starts saying look he knows this other guy you're going to want to look at him too
00:34:52
regardless of what Omar tells you when you interview him law enforcement has to think of it as a a Tob situation she has
00:34:59
access to the car is she helping Omar we know that the individual that gets out of the passenger side is a as a male so
00:35:08
hey she's driving the car and Omar is the one that gets out and places the bomb on top of the car armed with all of
00:35:14
this information now law enforcement will search Omar's vehicle inside his vehicle they find a pair of wire cutters
00:35:21
electrical tape a current tester wires and keys to the Chevy Cobalt then they go to his work and he did maintenance at
00:35:31
a condo complex and in his maintenance shed they find a box of 9vt batteries the 9vt batteries here this package and
00:35:42
the other batteries found in the shed were the same type and same manufacturer as the battery used in the bomb so it's
00:35:50
not like having DNA but it tells you hey you're probably on the right track here
00:35:55
and of course they're going to interview this fio too and he as well Captain will
00:36:00
deny any involvement at all you know I didn't do it I I don't know anything and but eventually he's going to admit that
00:36:10
and these are his words he goes from not admitting anything to something that gets him very close to making him
00:36:18
suspect number one saying quote that he made a bomb and that he knew it was going to go off at the Luxor stupid then
00:36:27
he denied that he was the one that placed the bomb or activated the bomb in any way at all but ultimately he's going
00:36:35
to tweak his story again and again and this is when he tells law enforcement and this is from the record although he
00:36:41
was hesitant at first of placing the bomb on the car because it was not his problem he told police he did say that
00:36:50
he placed the bomb near the center of the roof of the car towards the driver's side and he event entally tells law
00:36:57
enforcement that the bomb had been placed in a cup and that a magnet was placed in the cup so that the bomb would
00:37:04
stay on top of Mr Antonio's car until someone moved it m this is very interesting here Captain because we talk
00:37:13
often about police holdback information and when they describe the bomb in the papers and when they're telling the
00:37:19
public about the incident that took place at the Luxor they're telling us how the bomb was made what it was
00:37:25
constructed of very Loosely but at the same time they're telling us that this was a targeted attack and that's
00:37:31
probably based off of most of the statements of the surviving victim but they're also saying there's no threat to
00:37:39
the public and this makes sense here because they're looking at the psychology of one the bomb How It Was
00:37:46
Made its size what damage one could expect it to do but plus they didn't tell anybody in the public about this
00:37:54
magnet this was their holdback information to to that when they have the right person sitting across from
00:38:00
them at the table when they're grilling them you know tell us something that only you would know or how can you prove
00:38:06
to me that you're telling the truth well this piece of information never made its
00:38:10
way to the public this magnet that was put there with the idea that it would keep the bomb on top of this vehicle
00:38:19
thus almost making sure that they would hit their target it's closest thing I think that law enforcement's going to
00:38:26
get to a full-blown confession yeah I think you're right here no pun intended right now they they
00:38:33
also find what they are calling bomb making materials in perero residents both men were arrested and charged with
00:38:41
murder and a bunch of other charges as well came with this police publicly announced that they had no reason to
00:38:49
believe that the woman who owned the Chevy Cobalt was involved in any way so no charges were brought against her
00:38:57
in relation to the bomb now in a strange turn of events here Captain we would later learn that Omar Denver [ __ ]
00:39:05
princess the prime suspect the man who was hellbent on killing his exgirlfriend and her current boyfriend right Omar
00:39:16
Denver was not his real name surprise surprise that in fact was the name of a former employer of his who he worked for
00:39:23
when he lived in Panama so this man's real name is Alexander Perez so this is discovered when the real Omar Denver
00:39:33
sees the news of this bombing and then sees that somebody was arrested connected to this
00:39:39
bomb 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
00:39:51
this is who I am I'm Omar Denver that guy's name is not Omar Denver and I had nothing to do with this bombing the real
00:39:59
Omar Reda Denver once employed the man that the police now know to be Alexander Perez once Perez made his way to the
00:40:09
states and ultimately Las Vegas he started using that name he stole that name of his one-time employer and using
00:40:18
it as his own come on man use your own real name law enforcement prosecutors surmised that the two men Omar Reda
00:40:25
Denver's real name Alexander Perez whose age is 31 years old in perio Duarte Herrera 27 killed wialo Dantes Antonio
00:40:38
age 24 by building a bomb and placing it in a cup on top of the Dodge Stratus on
00:40:44
the driver's side of the vehicle they determined that perio was the one who built and placed the bomb on the car and
00:40:51
of course Perez was trying to kill his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend out of jealousy Omar was obsessed with Karen
00:40:58
and watched and followed her both men were facing the death penalty and they stood trial together it took some time
00:41:07
because they would not be convicted until 2010 the bombing took place in 2007 both were sentenced to life
00:41:15
imprisonment without the possibility of parole and will spend the rest of their lives in prison now in another strange
00:41:23
turn here Captain perio was also found guilty of planting a bomb outside of the Las Vegas Home Depot store on Halloween
00:41:34
back in 2006 which blasted shards of metal over a wide area into a busy street prosecutors said it was
00:41:42
incredibly lucky that no one was injured or killed in that bombing one of the ship bags in the ship bag salad already
00:41:51
plac a bomb at another location cuz I just don't understand understand how Omar got him involved it's unclear how
00:42:00
these two were friends but they were friends for quite some time and according to the woman that owned the
00:42:06
Chevy Cobalt she said that in the time frame leading up to the bomb at the Luxor that these two individuals saw
00:42:14
each other daily as far as she was aware so they were very close to one another but it can't be understated what the
00:42:23
words of detectives and police were at the time shortly after arresting both of these individuals they were upfront and
00:42:30
saying look we know this was targeted but we we want everybody to understand just how dangerous these two men are
00:42:39
these two men together are you have one person that's so jealous that he's willing to kill two people and then you
00:42:46
have another individual that seems to be into making bombs and later when peio is interviewed
00:42:54
and asked about the this bomb and and these two bombs that he he created he really to me just seems like
00:43:03
a a weird a very strange individual Captain because the way that he makes it sound is basically like I'm at home
00:43:11
tinkering around and I figured out that I could make a bomb weirdo and that he placed it at the Home Depot just to see
00:43:19
if he was successful in making this bomb if it would in fact go off this guy is such a psychopath he's it's he's
00:43:28
treating it like it's a video game he doesn't care if anybody at the Home Depot is killed in the parking lot right
00:43:34
he made a bomb and wanted to see if it worked and if it would go off and if it would do its thing do what he
00:43:41
constructed it to do and it's a shame that one you know that he didn't blow himself up in the process of learning
00:43:48
how to create these homemade bombs yeah which we see a lot of bombers blow themselves up the other thing too that
00:43:55
we have have to factor in is think about the the premeditation involved in the attack that killed Mr Antonio so
00:44:06
we have the one individual Omar or sorry Perez I keep using his his fake name but
00:44:12
Mr Perez who he knows this individual's vehicle he knows the work schedules it said when
00:44:21
they were reviewing the surveillance footage another reason why they believed it to be targeted not just the the
00:44:28
magnet but when the vehicle the Cobalt entered the parking area they drove around for several minutes as if they
00:44:35
were looking for something specific and then they pull up next to the Dodge Stratus someone gets out places the bomb
00:44:42
on top of the vehicle they get back in and they drive off but this was very premeditated to the point of these two
00:44:50
individuals had to have a a a discussion at some point of hey I want to kill these two people and the other losers
00:44:58
saying yeah I know how to make bombs okay well when can we place a bomb and take these two out so there's a lot
00:45:05
of premeditated planning that went into this type of attack and think about how little it took for both of these
00:45:13
individuals to be willing to kill two people yeah and then you wonder if maybe some money was going to change hands for
00:45:19
his involvement but both these guys are loose cannons well and we have a couple things that take place here uh Captain
00:45:27
one these two are going to be tried together but but look at it this way because Mr Perez is NE he's not saying
00:45:35
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
00:45:41
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
00:45:50
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
00:45:56
confession and so when you're at trial you're trying both of these individuals together not only are they saying hey I
00:46:04
was somewhat involved but not fully involved I'm not completely responsible they're also both kind of pointing the
00:46:09
finger at one another and suggesting hey Mr Herrera may have done this on his own
00:46:13
or hey Mr Perez may have done this on his own right and what ends up happening here Captain we have to fast forward to
00:46:21
a few years later and actually just a couple years ago cuz what changes for Mr Perez is that later is when Mr Herrera
00:46:30
is convicted of the Home Depot bomb which we know took place in our timeline before the bomb at the Luxor right so a
00:46:40
few years ago Mr Perez has granted a new trial in 2019 this is based off of the appeal
00:46:47
that he had not been able to cross examine his codefendant who had given incriminating evidence to the police so
00:46:55
what they're saying basically here Captain is it was not known that Mr Herrera was going to be found guilty of
00:47:04
a previous bombing attack and therefore this could not be addressed at that original trial and now Mr Perez who was
00:47:13
always pointing the finger at Mr Herrera wants the jury and the judge and everyone to know that here this is
00:47:20
further evidence that I was not involved what he's saying his his defense in 2019
00:47:26
when he gets a new trial is basically this look I borrowed the Chevy cobal I went to the Luxor that night looking for
00:47:36
my daughter looking for my ex hoping that finding my ex I could see my daughter I was just in the wrong place
00:47:43
at the wrong time and he's also saying another way that he had bad luck because he was friends with this person who he's
00:47:50
now calling a weirdo in 2019 saying he's basically a person that has a history of
00:47:56
bomb making number one but two an individual that was obsessed with making bombs and probably obsessed with blowing
00:48:04
things up as well these garage boys are here and happy to report that boom all these years later still found
00:48:14
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