Strip hotel security disarmed man after stabbing
Las Vegas NV April 21 2021 One man was stabbed during a fight involving several males at the luxury hotel-casino on the resort corridor.
The Cosmopolitan towers over the older Jockey Club on the west side of the Strip, just south of the Bellagio Las Vegas is where it occurred.
The fight occurred about 5 am.
There was an altercation between a group of males that led to one male sustaining a couple of lacerations to his upper body shoulder area and arm area,” police Lt. Noe Esparza told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in a text.
A security team members responded was able to disarm the man police reported.
Las Vegas police said they arrested Chris Okoronkwo, 33, at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on charges of attempted murder, assault, and battery with a deadly weapon in a stabbing at the hotel at 5:04 a.m. Police said in an arrest report for Okoronkwo that a melee broke out on the 37th floor of the property among four men, leaving one man suffering from three stab wounds.
Another man, a California resident over the age of 60, was punched and knocked unconscious during the fight.
“The (stabbing) victim’s injuries required a tourniquet to stop the bleeding which could have resulted in death if not applied,” police wrote in the report.
Police said an investigation showed the two victims went to their hotel rooms with two men and three women they met in the casino. An argument then broke out, causing a Cosmopolitan security officer to respond to the scene. The security officer observed Okoronkwo punch the victim, who is over the age of 60. That man fell and hit his head on a wall, knocking him out.
Esparza said the victim was hospitalized with injuries that are not life threatening. There was no indication whether anyone had been arrested or whether police had identified any suspects. The victim’s name was not released.
On Thursday, the lieutenant said the investigation “is still fluid and ongoing.”
The city-county Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is known locally as Metro. Most of the megaresorts in Southern Nevada, including the Cosmopolitan, are in the county, south of Las Vegas city limits.
The stabbing at the Cosmopolitan is one of several violent incidents on or near the Strip since the beginning of the year.
In January, a man was shot outside the Venetian Resort on the east side of the Strip. The Venetian is located where the now-demolished Sands hotel-casino once stood.
Also in January, Metro was called early one morning to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino parking lot. The Rio is just west of the Strip, behind Caesars Palace.
Police discovered a man in the Rio parking lot, suffering from several gunshot wounds. The man was hospitalized in critical condition. After multiple surgeries, he has survived, the newspaper reported. One man was arrested in the incident.
In February, a man was hospitalized after being stabbed in the neck in a domestic dispute near Grand Bazaar Shops. A woman was taken into custody. The shops are at the front of Bally’s Las Vegas Hotel and Casino on the east side of the Strip.
“An argument ensued that turned physical when the male assaulted the female,” Metro Lt. David Gordon said at the time.
In another recent violent incident, a 57-year-old retired Connecticut State Police Trooper died after a man punched him in a fight near the Strip and Flamingo Road. A suspect was arrested a short time later.
These incidents followed a surge last year in violent crime on the Strip and nearby areas. These incidents led to several people being hospitalized.
