Hotel housekeeping staff members were still working in nearby rooms, he said. Marshall said he and his family had no initial word from the hotel about what was happening but said they remained in their room as a precaution. OcampoGomez, the Las Vegas police spokesperson, said there were no immediate reports of injuries to anyone in the pool area. “In the casino, it’s business as usual,” Marshall said, although hotel security officers and police were visible in the guest valet area. Hotel employees told Marshall and his family that the incident was on the 21st floor and that guests on other floors were not evacuated or restricted from movements. Marshall saw seat cushions, a chair and other items hit a ledge outside the window of his room, and said some fell to the pool area after it had been evacuated. “It looks like he’s pretty much emptied the room of furniture,” Marshall said of the man police said was barricaded upstairs. Snyder said some people hid by a staircase while items flew out the window: a coffee maker, a hair dryer, a desk bureau.īlackwell said that after 30 minutes, people were told they could return to their rooms.īroken glass and furniture fell intermittently for about an hour, said Associated Press writer John Marshall, who was on vacation with his family in a room on the fifth floor of the Palace Tower. Staff yelled for guests to evacuate the pool area. “We were told to gather our stuff and rush out the back.”īoth Snyder and Blackwell told The Associated Press they thought there might be a shooter or attack. “When we saw the window shatter it was kind of a surreal feeling, it got pretty scary,” Blackwell said. “People were just staring up and looking,” she said.īeverly Blackwell of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was lounging by a pool with her husband, Chris, when she heard glass break and saw curtains flutter from the broken window. Police SWAT officers secured the hallway outside the room, although Connell said it was not immediately clear if the man was armed.Įmma Snyder said she was near a resort swimming pool on her first day of vacation from Appleton, Wisconsin, when she heard several loud bangs and saw falling glass. with a report from hotel security that a man and woman were arguing and that the man pulled the woman into a room “by force.” Stephen Connell said the standoff began about 9:15 a.m. Officer Aden OcampoGomez said the woman did not appear to be injured. The female is currently with officers,” the department said in messages posted mid-afternoon Tuesday. “The suspect has been taken into custody. Furniture, cushions and other objects fell from a 21st floor window, frightening guests in a swimming pool area below. No injuries were reported and police did not immediately say if the man in custody had been armed in a high-rise tower of the iconic Las Vegas Boulevard property. LAS VEGAS (AP) - A man was arrested and a woman described as his hostage was released unharmed Tuesday after an hourslong standoff in a room at the Caesars Palace resort on the Las Vegas Strip, police said. By KEN RITTER and BEATRICE DUPUY (Associated Press)
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