Flamingo hotel robber suspect given trial date to receive pistol whipping
A criminal pleaded not guilty last week to charges that he pistol-whipped and robbed a woman in a room at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas earlier this year.
A Clark County grand jury indicted Quavaus Williams, 37, for the Aug. 19 robbery. His trial is scheduled to begin next April.
Williams was charged with burglary with a firearm, robbery with a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm in or from an occupied building and other firearms offenses.
Williams is being held without bail.
In October, he was sentenced to at least two years in prison for an unrelated previous weapons offense. He is currently serving his sentence at High Desert State Prison in Nevada. He also faces several other theft and firearm charges, according to KLAS.
Stag Party
The unnamed victim was staying at the hotel for a bachelorette party, Las Vegas television station KLAS reported. Williams entered the hotel room after a woman who lived there left the door ajar as she entered the hallway to make a phone call, police said.
Williams walked toward one of the victim's suitcases.
"I was woken up by a black man going through my suitcase," the woman testified before the grand jury, KLAS reported. "I stood up and said, 'Who are you? What are you doing?' When I Realizing there was a man in the room, I walked around the bed toward him and that's when he pointed the gun at me and said, "I'm going to kill you [expletive]." "
The victim said Williams then demanded her cellphone and wallet.
I walked over to the bed and realized I had left my wallet there and I grabbed my wallet and gave it to him and he hit me in the face with the gun," the woman further testified.
She suffered multiple fractures on her nose and elsewhere on her face, KLAS reported.
The impact caused the victim to fall to the ground. That's when the gunfire rang out, the bullet fired into the headboard, and Williams fled the scene.
Officers from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) were then notified. They identified Williams as a suspect based on evidence collected at the crime scene. Police later searched his Las Vegas home and found the victim's cell phone and other items in the hotel room.
Williams was arrested on August 30.
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