LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The person who killed his neighbor for blocking a part of his driveway — and shot one other individual in a second parking-related capturing — might serve a minimal of 21 years in jail as a part of a plea settlement filed Thursday.
In November 2022, police arrested Robert Salone, 43, for the October 2022 killing of Christopher “Dice” Allen, 34. The capturing occurred on Tipper Avenue close to the intersection of Hacienda Avenue and Nellis Boulevard within the southeast valley. The lads lived throughout the road from one another.
Earlier than the capturing, Salone and Allen had been arguing about Allen’s automotive partially blocking Salone’s driveway, police stated. Allen known as 911 round 12:40 p.m. on the day of the homicide, saying somebody shot him.
Salone drove off within the household automobile after the capturing.
Salone entered an Alford plea Thursday to prices of first-degree homicide and tried homicide, information stated. An Alford plea means the defendant doesn’t admit guilt however agrees prosecutors have sufficient proof to persuade a jury to convict him.
As a part of the settlement, Salone will serve a minimum of 21 years in jail, paperwork stated. A decide might additionally sentence him to a most of 70 years or life.
The tried homicide cost stems from an incident in Henderson in August 2021, the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported. In that case, an individual who took up two parking areas at a Henderson condo advanced additionally turned Salone’s sufferer, prosecutors stated.
The individual, a younger man who was visiting buddies on the advanced on Whitney Ranch Drive close to Russell Highway, advised police he “double parked” in a covered-parking space, based on paperwork the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained. A few half-hour later, the person returned to his automotive, discovering one other automobile parked “within inches” of his door, paperwork stated.
A person, who detectives and prosecutors stated was Salone, was additionally there, arguing with the customer about his parking job, paperwork stated. Detectives in Henderson consider Salone fired three pictures on the driver, who stated the person shot at him as he was leaving the advanced, paperwork stated.
It was not till the bullets within the two crime scenes matched in a police database that police tied Salone to the 2 parking-related crimes.
Salone has remained in custody since his 2022 arrest on greater than $1.1 million bail.
A decide will sentence him on June 3.
