Duty of Care<\/strong><\/h2>\nBurgarino, from Hales Corners, Wis., was visiting the casino with his fianc\u00e9e. His alleged attacker was not a hotel guest, nor did he have a key or an assigned room.<\/p>\n
Instead, he \u201csuspiciously lurked and stalked patrons on Harrah\u2019s property for hours\u2014in plain view of the hotel staff\u2014without checking in, gambling, or buying anything.\u201d That\u2019s according to a civil negligence lawsuit filed against the casino owner, Caesars Entertainment, by Burgarino\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, Denise Dixon.<\/p>\n
Dixon argues in her suit that Harrah\u2019s staff had a duty of care to protect their guests from Watson.<\/p>\n
He was repeatedly caught on security cameras loitering around the venue. That’s while staff did nothing to investigate his presence or prevent the attack on Burgarino, Dixon claims.<\/strong><\/p>\nAt his 2020 competency hearing, jurors heard that Watson had lived in Wisconsin, Arizona, Hawaii, Florida, and Minnesota, according to Patch.com<\/em>. Recently, he had stayed with his mother and then his grandmother. But both kicked him out. Jurors heard that on one occasion, he accused his mother of worshipping the devil.<\/p>\nIn 2013, in Florida, police were called to see Watson standing naked on a roof, \u201cwanting to kill himself.\u201d He later told officers he had taken drugs and was hearing voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man accused of the brutal murder of a stranger in a hallway of Harrah\u2019s Casino Joliet intends to plead insanity, his lawyer has told a judge in Will County, Ill. Robert Watson was arrested on March 25, 2019, at the Joliet Public Library, the day after he is alleged to have stabbed to death […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":203921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,60,18],"tags":[84632,82002,84931],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Harrah's Joliet Alleged Stranger-Killer to Plead Insanity<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n