El Cortez Casino Guard’s Death Leads to Prison Sentence in Las Vegas

The man who shoved a security department safety device at the downtown Las Vegas El Cortez Hotel and Casino was sentenced Wednesday to at least 28 months in prison, intelligence reports said. The 2021 incident led to the guard’s death.

The maximum the defendant, Pedro Lizano, 35, will attend to is eight years, according to the doom proclaimed by Regional Justice Center Judge Jacqueline Bluth, a former prosecutor.

Lizano pushed the guard, Randy Lyons, 67, to the severely paving at the casino’s man area.

Bleeding on the Brain

Lyons cut down slow-witted and his top dog struck the pavement. He missed consciousness. Injuries included serious bleeding on the brain, KLAS, a local TV station, reported.

Lyons’s precondition remained weighty as he remained hospitalized. In February, Lyons’s family found little prize but to read him cancelled of living support. He had a secondly occurrence of hemorrhage on the brain.

Originally, Lizano was supercharged with battery. That was upped to bump off after the protection guard’s death.

The file and then was lowered to involuntary manslaughter under a plea deal.

Initially, on Sep 26, 2021 First Council of Lyons was directed to a casino eating house to happen Lizano. Lizano was creating a disruption there.

Lizano was later located at the casino’s valet region where he was fabrication on a bench, smoking a cigarette.

Lizano saw the guard and stood up. He rushed him. He forcefully shoved him leading to the serious fall.

Relatives Make Their Case

On Wednesday, relatives addressed the court of law before the sentencing.

He took forth a father. He took forth a brother. He took out a son. He took outside a grandfather and he took aside my husband,” Randy Lyons’s wife, Elizabeth II MacDowell, said.

“Pedro Lizano has no more regard for my brother’s life-time or safety,” Lyons’s sister, Brenda Lyons, added to the court.

She held upwards a necklace which carries some of her brother’s ashes. She showed it to the judge.

“This is all the physical I have left of my brother, Randy,” Brenda First Council of Lyons said.

Another sibling remembered Lyons’s last-place days.

“Even when he could no thirster surface his eyes, he forced himself to raise his lead cancelled the pillow in a dire effort to say goodbye to us,” his brother, Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Lyons, told the court.

It was also revealed that Lizano was arrested by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVPMD) 49 times since 2008, KLAS said. He was granted 10 additional citations inward Las Vegas.

Still, Lizano’s sister, Tania Arriaga, wrote a alphabetic character to the judge.

“My brother has been struggling with mental health issues for such a long time and every clip that i effort to catch him help, he is released without help,” the letter said.

Lizano tried to explicate his actions to the court.

“I was homeless, and i was cold, and I requisite somewhere to stay,” Lizano said.

His attorney, St. David Westbrook, cited his client’s mental wellness challenges.

The stem make is that he has a mental sickness that he’s been unable to treat and that we as a smart set feature been unable to render him the resources to treat,” Westbrook argued to the judge.

But MacDowell rejected those arguments.

“Mental sickness cannot follow used as an self-justification and as a, really appropriately, get-out-of-jail ticket. i testament live the thorn inward his position for the sleep of his lifetime because I testament non take into account him to accept aside another son, another brother, a sister, a mother of somebody. He will ne'er do this again,” she said.