Las Vegas Casino Guard Murder Suspect Takes Plea Deal

UPDATE: Pedro Lizano, 35, who faced a slaying complaint inward the decease of Las Vegas hotel security guard Randall Lyons, 67, has taken a plea trade that could lay him inwards prison for 2-8 years.

Surveillance video, posted today by KLAS-TV, shows the horrifying minute that Lizano — previously arrested 48 times — pushed First Council of Lyons to the strand alfresco the El Cortez Hotel and Casino on John C. Fremont Street.

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EARLIER: A Las Vegas adult male is existence held without bond at the William Clark County Detention Center. That’s after existence indicted endure week for the polish off of Randall Lyons, 67. Lyons, a security department ward for the El Cortez inward downtown Las Vegas, was pushed to his expiry on the chore last year.

His accused murderer, 35-year-old Pedro Lizano, has 48 prior arrests, according to constabulary records researched past KLAS-TV/Las Vegas.

On Sept. 26, 2021, Lyons responded to a call off about a adult male causation a flutter inwards the El Cortez valet, according to the stop report. When he approached the man, law said, the piece “forcefully and sharply shoved” him with both hands and fled the scene.

Lyons’ top dog smasher the pavement, rendering him unconscious. Paramedics rushed him to a local hospital, where he was determined to make a mentality bleed. He ne'er full regained consciousness.

Police distributed photos of the suspect to all nearby hotels and casinos. The next morning, an officer identified Lizano as the suspect exterior a downtown business and arrested him. (A find also identified Lizano inwards a photo lineup.) Initially, he faced charges of assault and battery resulting inwards material corporeal harm. Investigators said they attempted to interview him, but his responses were “incoherent.”

A Tearful Goodbye

On Feb. 23, 2022, after doctors informed Lyons’ wife that he had developed a back mental capacity bleed and was non expected to survive, she made the hard determination to remove him from life support.

“I said, ‘I’m going to lose you’ and ‘this is the best thing for you,’ and he squeezed my paw similar he understood,” Elizabeth I Edward MacDowell told KLAS-TV.

After Lyons’ death, prosecutors filed a off bearing against Lizano, courtroom records showed. Last Wednesday, a grand panel indicted Lizano on felony counts of execution against a victim who was 60 or older and assault and battery resulting inwards substantial corporeal harm against a dupe who was 60 or older.

Lizano entered shamed pleas twice during his arraignment on Monday after Judge Tierra Inigo Jones asked him to elucidate it. After beingness corrected past his attorney, Lizano amended his plea to “not guilty.”

49th Arrest

Though many of Lizano’s priors were for missing court of law dates, records showed his to the highest degree recent stoppage was for stamp battery and vehicle theft. Lizano was ne'er sentenced to clip inward any case.

I don’t hate him, but I can’t forgive him,” MacDowell told KLAS-TV most the man charged with kill her husband.

Lizano is due in court of law again next week. His attorney asked a justice for a tryout within 60 days.