{"id":306546,"date":"2024-01-15T07:31:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T13:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=306546"},"modified":"2024-01-17T15:36:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T21:36:56","slug":"sacramento-cardroom-murderer-to-spend-life-in-prison-for-killing-security-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/sacramento-cardroom-murderer-to-spend-life-in-prison-for-killing-security-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Cardroom Murderer Gets Life for Killing Security Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man in the 2022 robbery<\/a> and fatal shooting of a heroic security guard at Sacramento<\/a>, Calif.\u2019s Capitol Casino has been sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n

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The Capitol Casino, pictured above. A man was convicted for killing a security guard at the California cardroom. (Image: Capitol Casino)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>On Friday, Sacramento County Superior<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> Court Judge Michael Bowman handed down the sentence for Dawan Pecot<\/a>, 38. He will not be eligible for parole.<\/p>\n

In November, Pecot<\/span><\/span> was<\/span><\/span> convicted by a jury after a criminal trial on first-degree murder and second-degree robbery charges for the Aug. 22, 2022, killing. Pecot was attempting <\/span><\/span><\/span>to rob the poker room when security guard Sean Bernal, 27, apprehended him inside the cardroom. Bernal pulled out a taser<\/a> and ordered Pecot to walk out of the building.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>Once outside, Pecot <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>displayed a gun before returning to the casino and heading to the cashier\u2019s cage. He aimed the gun at a casino employee and demanded money. But Bernal got back inside the building and approached Pecot. He pulled out his taser again and tried to zap Pecot.<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Pecot shot Bernal<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> once in the neck. The single shot killed Bernal. <\/span><\/span><\/span>He handed Pecot over $38K before running out of the casino. A cardroom worker followed him to a nearby vehicle.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>When police officers<\/span><\/span> arrived at the casino, Pecot exited his car and fired a shot at the casino employee. Pecot then tried to run away, but officers stopped him, and he was arrested.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>He initially claimed <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>he was short of breath, so officers took him to a local hospital, according to CBS News.<\/em> After being seen by a doctor, he was booked at the Sacramento County Main Jail.<\/div>\n

Security Guard Regarded as Hero<\/h2>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Following the shooting,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0 Bernal\u2019s mother, Susan Bernal, told Sacramento TV station KTXL<\/em> her son loved his job and explained he went after the robber to protect the public.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He wouldn\u2019t have<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> been able to live with himself and come home that night or that day if he\u2019d known that he didn\u2019t do nothing and somebody else got killed, ” Susan Bernal said in an interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Bernal was also<\/span><\/span> survived<\/span><\/span>\u00a0by a daughter who was one year old when he was murdered.<\/p>\n

Prior Shootings<\/h2>\n

In 2021, Renee Walker was shot outside the cardroom. She died three days after the incident. Arviel Robertson, 36,<\/span><\/span> was charged with Walker\u2019s death. The homicide case is pending in a California court.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>In 2016, a casino employee, Nicholas Broadway, was fatally shot outside The Capitol Casino. Broadway was<\/span> caught in an <\/span><\/span><\/span>exchange of gunfire between an off-duty Sacramento police officer and Luis Alfonso Castillo. Castillo was arrested and later sentenced to 40 years in prison for second-degree murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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