Brawl led to fatal shooting in Bally’s Kansas City Casino garage, police say
An Overland Park man has been charged with murder in a shooting during a fight in the parking garage at the Bally’s Kansas City Casino on East Front Street on Memorial Day, authorities said.
Grant M. Lubin was charged with one count of second-degree murder and one count of armed criminal action in Jackson County Circuit Court on Wednesday.
Richard Miller, 45, was killed in the shooting on the evening of May 25. Kansas City police were called to the casino around 10:45 p.m. after a shooting was reported in the parking garage, according to court documents. Miller was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
In court documents, a Kansas City police detective said surveillance video showed Miller, another man and a woman getting into a confrontation with two men and a woman as Miller’s group left the casino. Police described a “verbal interaction” between the two groups that led to the shooter running to a car and returning with a handgun tucked in the front of his pants.
Police said a fight broke out; Miller was pushed and punched, then punched back at one of the men and kicked him in the face while he was on the ground. Miller could be seen getting in a vehicle but returned as the two women began to fight. Miller ran up and pushed them into a wall and then punched one of them, according to court documents.
The man with the gun could be seen pointing the weapon at Miller and another man before firing at the man’s feet, police said. After Miller punched one of the women several more times, he then punched one of the men and knocked him unconscious. The man with the gun then fired toward Miller, who was hit as he turned away to retreat to his car, police said.
The shooter and his group then fled in a pair of vehicles.
Police tracked the vehicle the shooter left in to a residence in Overland Park, and Lubin was arrested.
About an hour after the shooting, a caller to 911 reported he had dropped off his friend at a hospital because of an assault, and said he had fired a couple of warning shots at a man who had beaten his girlfriend, according to court documents. The caller reported that he had shot the man “when the male charged at him” and gave a phone number that was associated with Lubin.
Police said they went to interview Lubin on May 26, and that they concluded the interview when he requested to speak to an attorney.
