WITNESSES: ADAM (PACMAN) JONES BEATS WOMAN'S HEAD ON FLOOR IN VEGAS-SANCTIONED NBA RIOTS

"Las Vegas authorities appear to be more interested in protecting Sin City's tourist trade and securing an NBA franchise than finding the gunman who shot former WWF wrestler Tommy Urbanski and two others after a wild brawl sparked by Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam (Pacman) Jones, according to Urbanski's pals."

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""I don't have much confidence in the police department here," says Mark Mistretta, a retired New York City police officer who befriended Urbanski after he moved from Long Island to Las Vegas five years ago.

Urbanski, a Commack, L.I., product who moved to Nevada with his wife, Kathleen, in 1998, remains in critical condition at University Medical Center in Las Vegas following the shootings at the Minxx Gentlemen's Club and Lounge on Feb.19 in which Urbanski, bouncer Aaron Cudworth and a female customer were injured. Although hospital officials say he's expected to survive, he likely will be paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life.

According to authorities, the shooting was the climax of a brawl started by Jones, who has had multiple run-ins with the law.

• According to a search warrant request filed by Las Vegas Metro Police, Jones threw cash on the club's center stage, but became irate when the club's dancers scooped up the money. A woman in Jones' entourage, Sadia Morrison, brawled with one dancer and when Cudworth intervened, she smacked him in the head with a Champagne bottle. Jones, the document says, interfered as security guards tried to break up the fight between the women, reaching behind his back as if he had a weapon.

Club co-owner Robert Susnar also told the Daily News the football player grabbed one of the strippers by the hair, smashed her head against the stage and punched her in the face.

Minutes after club security had pushed Jones and his entourage out of the club, a man Susnar said was part of Jones' posse returned with a handgun and began firing, hitting Urbanski, Cudworth and a female patron. Cudworth and the woman were treated and released at University Medical Center but Urbanski suffered life-threatening injuries.

If Las Vegas police had evidence that Jones had battled with bouncers and threatened them, as investigators indicate in the search warrant request, why wasn't the NFL star arrested and charged? Instead, Jones immediately left town after the incident."

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From the NY Daily News article, 2/26/07 by Michael O'Keeffe

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