Judge denies bail for suspects in 2 New Year’s Eve killings

The suspects successful 2 killings during attempted robberies connected New Year’s Eve person been linked to 3 different equipped robberies successful Las Vegas during the aforesaid clip period.

On Monday, Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Harmony Letizia denied bail for Jordan Ruby, 18, and Jesani Carter, 20.

“There is nary question that these 2 defendants are a information to the community. They admittedly came to municipality connected the busiest play of the twelvemonth to terrorize the community, to terrorize tourists,” Letizia said earlier making her decision.

They volition stay astatine the Clark County Detention Center connected 13 counts, including murder, attempted robbery with a deadly limb and conspiracy to perpetrate robbery, according to Justice Court records, which amusement that 10 of the counts were filed Monday.

During the bail hearing, a trio of Metropolitan Police Department detectives described the suspects’ alleged M.O. One detective besides testified astir a recorded telephone speech Ruby had with a pistillate portion astatine the jail.

The detective said Ruby told the pistillate that helium had travel to Las Vegas to rob radical connected the holiday, but that helium was lone the getaway driver, not the shooter.

“I wanted to marque immoderate money,” the detective quoted him arsenic saying. “I conscionable did it the dumb way.”

Carter, a California resident, denied his engagement successful the robberies during a jailhouse interview past week with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Narrating surveillance footage, detectives testified that 2 men successful a metallic BMW would thrust up to parking structures. Once they spotted a victim, 1 would get retired of the car, endanger that idiosyncratic with a weapon and instrumentality their belongings. Four of the crimes were caught connected video.

The archetypal of 5 robberies was reported astatine the Wynn Las Vegas connected the Las Vegas Strip the time earlier the killings, constabulary said.

After 66-year-old Clarice Yamaguchi of Hawaii was killed connected New Year’s Eve astatine the Fashion Show promenade parking store connected the Strip, the suspects targeted an worker astatine the Sahara Las Vegas. A gunshot rang out, but the antheral was uninjured, constabulary said.

The car past was spotted astatine Palace Station, wherever a pistillate was robbed astatine gunpoint successful the garage, constabulary said. A abbreviated clip later, gunfire erupted connected the level below.

Hyo Sup Um, 60, died astatine University Medical Center from a gunshot coiled to the back, the Clark County coroner’s bureau said. His shooting was not caught connected video.

The suspects were arrested the pursuing time successful a Strip casino.

This is simply a processing story. Check backmost for updates.

Contact Ricardo Torres-Cortez astatine rtorres@reviewjournal.com. Follow him connected Twitter @rickytwrites.