Aliante accused
Willecia Calhoun has filed a 14-page complaint with Clark County District Court against Aliante Casino and Hotel in North Las Vegas, accusing it of negligence over the death of her son, 23-year-old Na’Onche Osborne.
News reports from Sunday revealed Calhoun filed the suit on November 24 following the fatal shooting of Osborne, the adopted son of Pat Spearman, a former state senator from North Las Vegas, on March 27.
faces the death penalty for slaying Osborne
Calhoun alleges that Aliante “failed to provide adequate security” prior to the fatal shooting in the casino’s cashier cage area. Aerion Warmsley, 19, meanwhile, faces the death penalty for slaying Osborne and then trying to flee from police in a high-speed vehicle chase involving three stolen cars.
Calhoun’s complaint also alleges Aliante’s operator, Vegas-based Boyd Gaming Corporation, failed to “manage, control, supervise, secure and/or maintain” the casino.
Multiple allegations
Calhoun’s complaint also alleged that Aliante is located in a “high crime area” of North Las Vegas and that extra measures to safeguard casino goers should have been in place.
Those measures, Calhoun’s complaint alleges, should have included a “sufficient number” of security personnel in visible areas to “deter crime,” more surveillance cameras, and metal detectors “to prevent people from bringing firearms into the casino.”
The complaint alleged there was also a failure to provide “sufficient lighting” in and around the Aliante. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, law enforcement officials pegged the shooting at around 4:30am.
Osborne’s mother is seeking financial damages in excess of $15,000, stating that her son’s death caused her intense “physical and mental pain, shock and agony.”
Death and capital punishment
A statement from a Spearman family attorney after Osborne’s death said it is “an unimaginable loss for the senator and their family, and they are heartbroken.” Spearman contested for North Las Vegas mayor in 2022 while backed by former Vice President Kamala Harris, but was defeated by councilwoman Pamela Goynes-Brown.
According to the Review-Journal, Boyd Gaming spokesman David Strow stated that “the company does not comment on pending litigation.”
Warmsley, meanwhile, was indicted in June on multiple counts, including murder with the use of a deadly weapon, robbery, “reckless driving resulting in substantial bodily harm, and duty to stop at the scene of a crash involving death or personal injury.”
Deputy District Attorney Morgan Lombardo added further jeopardy to the teen killer’s life expectancy, stating in June that prosecutors were considering the death penalty for Warmsley over aggravating factors including “the mass destruction of everything.”
