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U.S. NEWS Monday 27 March 2017
Police:

‘No apparent reason’ for shooting on Vegas Strip bus

suspicion of murder, at- the victims had fled. Po-
tempted murder, burglary lice have started a hotline
and opening fire on the seeking to hear what those
bus. An attorney for him passengers witnessed.
could not immediately be Because authorities did not
found. know if more victims were
The bus had stopped on inside, crisis negotiators,
the Strip near the Cosmo- robots and armored ve-
politan hotel-casino and hicles surrounded the bus.
passengers were leaving Officers swept into casinos
when Cardenas stood up to warn tourists to hunker
and fired several rounds down until further notice,
from a handgun, police leaving the normally bus-
said. tling pedestrian areas and
Another victim suffered in- a road notorious for taxi-to-
A suspect is taken away after surrendering to SWAT officers after
he barricaded himself inside a public bus after a fatal shoot- juries and was hospitalized taxi traffic completely emp-
ing in the vehicle. Rolando Cardenas has been accused in the but was expected to live. ty.Visitors also hid out inside
shooting, and he surrendered peacefully after a standoff inside Both victims were seated some of the other promi-
the double-decker bus that lasted more than four hours, police in the back with Cardenas, nent hotel-casino proper-
said. police said. ties nearby, including the
(L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Sun via AP) It was not known how many Bellagio, Paris, Planet Hol-
people were on the bus at lywood and Bally’s, which
SALLY HO gunman barricaded him- the time of the shooting, also hold restaurants, shops
Associated Press self in the vehicle, shutting but the bystanders and and attractions. q
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man down the Strip for hours,
sitting at the back of a the Clark County coroner’s
public bus on the Las Ve- office said. He died at a
gas Strip opened fire “for hospital.
no apparent reason” as Rolando Cardenas, 55, has
passengers got off at a been accused in the shoot-
stop in the heart of the ing, and he surrendered
tourism corridor, police said peacefully after a standoff
Sunday. inside the double-decker
Gary Breitling, 57, of Sidney, bus that lasted more than
Montana, was shot and four hours, police said.
killed Saturday before the He was booked into jail on

AP: California slaying victims are
mom, 2 kids and another woman

CHRISTOPHER WEBER Investigators treated the
AMANDA LEE MYERS entire house as evidence,
Associated Press McPhail said.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Authorities arrested Sal-
— The four people killed last vador Vasquez-Oliva, 56,
week in a quiet Northern on suspicion of homicide
California neighborhood after finding him in San
include a woman and her Francisco, about 90 miles
two children, authorities (145 kilometers) away from
said Sunday. the killings. They have not
The victims are Angelique named a motive or said
Vasquez, 45; her daugh- what relationship he has to
ter, Mia Vasquez, 14; her the dead. Police have not
son, Alvin Vasquez, 11; and said when or how the vic-
Ashley Coleman, 21, ac- tims were killed.A former
cording to the Sacramento co-worker described An-
County coroner’s office. gelique Vasquez as a de-
Detectives did not immedi- voted mother.“I loved her
ately know what relation- free spirit and the way she
ship Coleman had to the spoke about her children.
Vasquez family, Sacramen- She loved them so much,”
to Officer Matthew McPhail said Sheila Stewart, who
said. met Vasquez seven years
Police found the victims ago in the human resources
Thursday when they broke department of California’s
into a single-story home in Employment Development
Sacramento after a rela- Department.Vasquez had
tive reported that some- split with her husband “in
thing might be wrong. the past,” Stewart said.q