{"id":305359,"date":"2024-01-02T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=305359"},"modified":"2024-01-03T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T18:52:09","slug":"burglars-hit-las-vegas-home-of-unlv-prof-killed-in-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/burglars-hit-las-vegas-home-of-unlv-prof-killed-in-mass-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"UNLV Prof Killed in Mass Shooting Has Burglars Hit Las Vegas Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Burglars have added to the misery of those who loved and admired Naoko Takemaru, one of three professors murdered in the December 6 mass shooting at UNLV.<\/p>\n

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Naoko Takemaru, 69, was one of three professors killed in a mass shooting at UNLV on December 6. (Image: UNLV)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three people burglarized Takemaru\u2019s Las Vegas home on December 26, according to KLAS-TV\/Las Vegas, which obtained a police report about the disheartening event on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The burglars apparently knew that no one would be home to stop them, since Takemaru, 69, had lived alone.<\/p>\n

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A neighbor of Takemaru\u2019s tried<\/em> stopping them, according to the report. She dialed 9-1-1 when she witnessed an unknown woman walking out of the vacant premises clutching several items. However, the woman\u2019s face was covered, as were the faces of two men waiting in a getaway car.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

According to the documents, Las Vegas police arrived to find the home ransacked, but didn’t know what was taken, though they had conducted a separate search of the home in the days following the mass murder. An officer noted in the report the presence of flowers left outside the home.<\/p>\n

Police said they have since secured Takemaru\u2019s former home, hopefully a little better than they did the last time they left it.<\/p>\n

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Gunman Anthony Polito, 67, was apparently angry that he couldn’t get hired at UNLV. (Image: abcnews.go.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Revenge Killing<\/h2>\n

The shooter, Tony Polito, killed Takemaru and two other professors, Cha Jan \u201cJerry\u201d Chang, 64, of Henderson, and Patricia Navarro Velez, 39, of Las Vegas, with a legally purchased Taurus 9mm handgun and 11 loaded magazines.<\/p>\n

The 67-year-old former adjunct professor, who never worked at UNLV, was killed in a shootout with police. Reportedly, he had applied for four UNLV positions in 2019, and got passed over each time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Takemaru was an associate professor of Japanese Studies at the Las Vegas university. She also authored the book Women in the Language and Society of Japan: The Linguistic Roots of Bias<\/em>\u00a0(<\/em>McFarland, 2010).
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\nThe UNLV Foundation has set up scholarships to honor all three victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Burglars have added to the misery of those who loved and admired Naoko Takemaru, one of three professors murdered in the December 6 mass shooting at UNLV. Three people burglarized Takemaru\u2019s Las Vegas home on December 26, according to KLAS-TV\/Las Vegas, which obtained a police report about the disheartening event on Tuesday. 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