Palm Springs Casino DUI Fatality Sees Elderly Man Face Up To Life in Prison
An 86-year-old man convicted of violent death a prosaic inward a 2019 CA DUI showcase has been sentenced to betwixt 15 years and lifespan inward prison. The break up out of doors of the Agua Caliente Casino also left hand a endorsement adult female seriously injured.
Riverside County Superior Court Judge Dale Wells revealed the sentence on Friday to suspect Leroy Silva of Palm Springs, according to City News Service, a Golden State tidings agency. Silva could feature faced a sentence of up to 23 years to living inward prison.
Last month, Silva was convicted by a jury for murder, DUI causing corporeal injury, and DUI causing bodily injury with a blood-alcohol stratum of more than .08 percent. He was also found shamefaced of II counts of tip-and-run resulting inward expiry or injury, and sentence-enhancing allegations of causing outstanding corporeal injury.
The off bearing was added after the prosaic died from injuries she suffered in the crash.
She was identified as Connie Clark, so 67, of Lemon Grove, Calif. The second adult female was also 67.
Ladies Crossing the Street
The accident took localise on July 27, 2019, as Silva was driving a disgraceful sedan. The women were crosswalk a street when he drove into them, police said.
Police placed him in the auto well-nigh a international mile from the accident. Silva was arrested. He remains in custody at the John Lackland Benoit Detention Center inwards Indio. H. G. Wells ordered him to live held without bail.
The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians owns the Agua Caliente Casino.
Recent Casino Crimes
The same casino has been the site of other crimes o'er the lastly 12 months. Last October, Palm Springs law officers stab alleged armed robbers in that location after an Agua Caliente Casino heist.
The duo was trying to speed off from the parking garage at the gambling casino when they were wounded, law said. One of the bandits was carrying a handgun. They had allegedly just robbed a adult female at gunpoint.
While inwards the garage, the duo approached the victim, who was standing by her car. They snuck up behindhand her, allegedly covered her mouth, and placed a piece upwardly to the position of her body, local police force said in a Facebook post.
They and then allegedly grabbed her purse and tried to speeding off in their white-hot Honda Accord. The outcomes of their court of justice cases were not instantly available.
The two suspected robbers attempted two other holdups at casinos that same night, police revealed.
One of the attempted holdups was at the same Palm Springs casino. In that incident, law were told that the ii suspects approached a man, and 1 of the bandits pulled come out a handgun and demanded the victim’s property, the Facebook post said.
The same bandits and so went to Agua Caliente Casino inward Rancho Mirage, where they once again attempted a robbery, police said.
Both of those attempts were unsuccessful, police force said.