Elderly Man Faces Up To Life in Prison for Palm Springs Casino DUI Fatality

An 86-year-old adult male convicted of sidesplitting a prosaic in a 2019 Golden State DUI vitrine was sentenced to 'tween 15 years and life-time inward prison. The collapse outside of the Agua Caliente Casino also left hand a arcsecond adult female seriously injured.

Riverside County Superior Margaret Court Judge Dale Wells revealed the sentence on Friday to suspect Leroy Silva of Palm Springs, according to City News Service, a Golden State news agency. Silva could feature faced a sentence of upwardly to 23 years to life-time inwards prison.

Last month, Silva was convicted past a panel for murder, DUI causation corporeal injury, and DUI causation corporal injury with a blood-alcohol layer of to a greater extent than .08 percent.

He was also found shamed of 2 counts of hit-and-run resulting inward demise or hurt and sentence-enhancing allegations of causing outstanding somatic injury.

The off lodge was added after the pedestrian died from injuries she suffered inward the crash.

She was identified as Connie Clark, and so 67, of Lemon Grove, Calif. The indorsement adult female was also 67.

Ladies Crossing the Street

The fortuity took come in on July 27, 2019 as Silva was impulsive a bleak sedan. The women were crosswalk a street when he swarm into them, police force said.

Police situated him in the automobile virtually a mil from the accident. Silva was arrested.

He remains in custody at the John the Evangelist Benoit Detention Center inward Indio. Herbert George Wells ordered him to follow held without bail.

The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians owns the Agua Caliente Casino.

Recent Casino Crimes

The same cassino has been the site of other crimes over the in conclusion 12 months. Last October, Palm Springs law officers stab alleged armed robbers on that point after an Agua Caliente Casino heist.

The duo was trying to fastness off from the parking garage at the casino when they were wounded, constabulary said. One of the bandits was carrying a handgun. They had just now allegedly robbed a woman at gunpoint.

While inward the garage, the duo approached the dupe who was standing by her car. They snuck upward in arrears her, allegedly covered her mouth, and placed a small-arm upwardly to the position of her body, local police said inwards a Facebook post.

They and so allegedly grabbed her wrinkle and tried to swiftness out in their whiteness Honda Accord. The outcomes of their court of justice cases were not directly available.

The two suspected robbers had attempted two other holdups at casinos that same night, constabulary revealed.

One of the attempted holdups was at the same Palm Springs casino. In that incident, constabulary were told that the two suspects approached a man, and one of the bandits pulled out a handgun and demanded the victim’s property, the Facebook post said.

The same bandits and so went to Agua Caliente Casino inwards Rancho Mirage, where they again attempted a robbery, police said.

Both of those attempts were unsuccessful, law said.