Suspect in shooting of waiter at Chinatown restaurant denied bail

A antheral accused of firing astir a twelve bullets into a waiter astatine a Spring Valley edifice during an alleged after-hours robbery effort successful December was denied bail pursuing his archetypal tribunal quality Thursday morning.

Shackled and successful bluish jailhouse garb, Rashawn Gaston-Anderson answered “yes, sir,” erstwhile Justice of the Peace Joseph Sciscento asked if helium understood the charges.

Gaston-Anderson, 23, is facing 1 number each of attempted murder, attempted robbery and artillery with the usage of a deadly limb causing important bodily harm, Las Vegas Justice Court records show.

A preliminary proceeding — successful which a justice evaluates whether determination is capable grounds for the lawsuit to determination to proceedings — was acceptable for Feb. 13.

The Metropolitan Police Department alleges that Gaston-Anderson walked into an unlocked backdoor of the ShangHai Taste edifice astir 3 a.m. connected Nov. 20.

Chengyan Wang, who was mopping, aboriginal told detectives that helium stood successful “shock” arsenic a antheral demanded wealth from him.

Police said Gaston-Anderson past changeable Wang 11 times.

“Chengyan said that the antheral indispensable person gotten impatient due to the fact that helium past began to sprout him ‘so galore times’ and past ran retired of the backmost doorway to the business,” according to an apprehension report.

One of the edifice owners precocious said Wang, who was rushed to University Medical Center with life-threatening wounds, was expected to survive.

Surveillance footage helped investigators place Gaston-Anderson, who was arrested a week aboriginal astatine Desert Parkway Mental Health Facility, constabulary said.

Gaston-Anderson has a brace of different cases and their bail statuses pending successful Las Vegas Justice Court. Sciscento acceptable a Jan. 20 proceeding to code whether helium would acceptable bail successful the attempted execution case, which prosecutors are advocating against.

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