Suspect in Las Vegas bartender’s death has died, records show

A antheral suspected of sidesplitting a bartender died earlier helium was arrested successful the case, according to documents released to the Review-Journal.

Police said Lane Sterling was intoxicated erstwhile helium jumped down the barroom connected April 26 and got into a scuffle with the bartender astatine Champagnes Cafe, 3557 S. Maryland Pkwy.

The bartender, 60-year-old Mark Heilman died arsenic a effect of the fight. The Clark County coroner’s bureau ruled past week that Heilman’s decease was a homicide caused by bosom disease, obesity, diabetes and a “recent carnal altercation.”

An incidental study from the Metropolitan Police Department identified Sterling, but the section confirmed Monday that Sterling’s decease closed Heilman’s case.

Court records bespeak helium was ne'er charged.

The Clark County coroner’s bureau said Sterling died June 18 astatine Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center aft an incidental successful Henderson. The coroner’s bureau had not determined Sterling’s origin and mode of death.

Henderson constabulary connected Thursday declined to supply immoderate information, citing an unfastened investigation.

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