Man arrested in Las Vegas Chinatown shooting

Las Vegas constabulary said Monday that they person arrested a antheral successful transportation with the shooting of a waiter astatine ShangHai Taste.

Rashawn Gaston-Anderson, 23, was taken into custody connected Monday day aft a national tip, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Police had antecedently identified him arsenic the fishy successful the shooting of Chengyan Wang, a waiter astatine ShangHai Taste.

Police said a masked gunman stormed into the edifice adjacent Wynn Road astatine 2:55 a.m. connected Dec. 20, past changeable Wang 11 times. Wang has since undergone aggregate surgeries and is recovering successful the Intensive Care Unit astatine University Medical Center, edifice co-owner Joe Muscaglione said Monday.

Numerous fundraisers had collected much than $33,000 for Wang arsenic of Monday afternoon, arsenic the Las Vegas assemblage rallied to enactment him.

Spring Valley country bid skipper Michelle Tavarez said determination was nary grounds to bespeak the shooting of Wang was a hatred crime. Instead, it is believed to beryllium a burglary that apt has connections to a antecedently unreported burglary successful the aforesaid buying analyzable astir 10 days anterior to the shooting.

“It appears to beryllium a burglary gone wrong,” Tavarez said. “We judge the fishy came into the gathering to marque a speedy buck… and helium encountered our victim. We are truthful grateful helium is live and survived. It is not each time that idiosyncratic gets changeable 11 times and lives done it. God was connected his side.”

District Court records amusement Gaston-Anderson pleaded blameworthy to attempted expansive larceny successful 2018 and was sentenced to 18 months of probation. He was charged successful November with burglary and expansive larceny and connected Dec. 6 with pandering and carrying a concealed limb without a permit, according to Las Vegas Justice Court records.

It was not wide Monday nighttime erstwhile helium would look successful court, oregon what charges helium was facing.

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