A Golden State jury found a crew member shamefaced Tues inward the fatal shot of a gambling casino security department guard. The remove took come out on Nov. 3, 2017 at Golden West Casino inward Bakersfield.
The defendant, Keon Brackenridge, is scheduled to be sentenced on June 8. He could human face multiple lifetime sentences in prison.
The jury brought backrest a shamed verdict on several charges following a trial. These include first-degree murder, attempted murder, trine counts of assault with a gun, shot at an inhabited dwelling, and possession of a firearm past a felon, KGET, a Golden State TV station, reported.
The incident began when Brackenridge would non demo an I.D. at the gambling casino entrance. He was non net ball into the gaming floor, the written report said.
That led to him beingness ordered off from the casino. But kind of than leave, while in a parking lot, he allegedly pulled out a 9mm handgun. It was secret inward his waistband, the write up adds.
He allegedly began shot at the guards. Gunfire was exchanged inwards the parking lot.
One security department guard, Richard Iloilo, 25, was shot. He died at the gaming prop from his upper dead body injuries. Three other certificate guards slam at Brackenridge. He was wounded in the forearm and thigh, KGET said.
Despite his wounds, Brackenridge was capable to paseo to the Playfair Market. That is two blocks from the casino. He was arrested past local deputies at the market.
It was later determined Brackenridge pulled out his gun and fired the weapon system before the security guards dismissed their weapons, KGET reported. That is based on hitch reports citing surveillance video.
At to the lowest degree unity of the guards touched Brackenridge before the gunfire. They wanted to encourage him to allow for the gambling casino property, the write up adds.
He Claimed Self-Defense
Brackenridge later told authorities he fired the gun in self-defense, the report adds. In 2017, he pleaded non hangdog to the charges.
This week, Jerome Kern County District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer called the shooting “senseless violence” that led to the “death of a man who was simply doing his job” and pose the lives of “countless others” inwards danger, KERO, another Golden State TV station, reported.
This sentence brings answerability and justice, and the awaited(p) life-time sentences will preclude Brackenridge from further endangering the people of Jerome David Kern County.”
Bullet Entered Casino
No i else was injured during the gunfire. a slug went through and through a window at the casino. It shattered glassful inward a tabularize privileged the casino building.
The sound of gunfire led visitors to parachuting onto the level inwards the gambling casino to seek safety. type A gambling casino worker inner the champagne elbow room also heard the gunfire.
To protect the visitors, the worker pulled several of them to an expanse behind a fence in that spaced the champagne elbow room from the gaming floor, KGET said.
After his apprehension, Brackenridge was found to follow a fellow member of the Benjamin West Side Crips street gang, KGET said. The Crips are an coalition of street gangs located inward Southern California.