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The rumor flying around yesterday about noon was there were three people shot INSIDE Caesars right outside Pure. THAT would be news...people don't get shot inside casinos very often. I was disappointed (sorta, sorta relieved) when I got home and flipped on a replay of the 11pm news and found out it was in the parking garage. Outside, it does happen, typically in the parking garages or in the back, sometimes out on the strip.

Keep it in perspective. There are a couple hundred thousand folks visiting Vegas all the time. A few times a year someone gets shot outside a casino. But it's USUALLY someone who's "involved" with the wrong people. They get in a fight, they mouth off at someone... whatever, it's not random undirected violence. If you aren't stupid you won't typically find yourself in a situation where someone wants to point a gun at you. Obviously there are exceptions and good people get 9mm holes in 'em now and then (stray bullet from drive-by during All Star Game, NYNY shooter).

All that said, I do find the Caesars parking garage a considerably not-so-friendly place often late on Friday and Saturday nights. Seems a few gangs have taken to sometimes just hanging around near the elevators. But I've also noticed the last few trips there on a weekend that security and sometimes even LVMPD are also just hanging out around the elevators. So I'm not too surprised something nasty went down in the CP garage. Hopefully they'll take this event seriously and work a little harder to keep the garage from being the in place to hang at 3am on Sunday morning.