Wounded Las Vegas officer Shay Mikalonis attends charity hockey game

Las Vegas serviceman Shay Mikalonis, who was gravely wounded successful a shooting past summer, made a nationalist quality astatine a foundation hockey crippled Friday nighttime astatine City National Arena.

The “Play for Shay” crippled was portion of the Injured Police Officers Fund’s “Pray for Shay” fundraiser.

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Mikalonis, a longtime hockey fan, was honored astatine the crippled by the Las Vegas Metro Honor Guard.

“While the roadworthy to betterment tin beryllium long, we are by your broadside Shay,” the Metropolitan Police Department wrote successful a Facebook station Monday, adding that each wealth raised during the lawsuit went straight to Mikalonis. “He’s making unthinkable advancement since helium was changeable successful June 2020.”

Then-30-year-old Mikalonis was shot pursuing a objection successful downtown Las Vegas connected June 1, 2020. He was paralyzed from the cervix down and spent months astatine a rehabilitation halfway earlier coming home to Las Vegas this spring, wherever helium has required 24-hour care and breathes with the assistance of a ventilator.

The antheral arrested successful the shooting, Edgar Samaniego, is charged with attempted execution and artillery with a deadly weapon. Samaniego admitted successful tribunal that helium fired a changeable but claimed helium was trying to scare protesters distant and didn’t cognize determination were cops around.

Samaniego remains successful custody astatine the Clark County Detention Center connected $1 cardinal bail, jailhouse records show. His adjacent tribunal quality is scheduled for Nov. 15.

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