Surveillance video shows the man approaching the couple, a “discussion occurs,” and the man “backs away and then approaches them again,” according to a Harrah’s security incident report. Shortly before midnight on the night of the altercation, Wells and his wife were standing in the valet area of Harrah’s, waiting to leave the far southwest suburban casino, when they were approached by a man, according to records and interviews.Ī casino security supervisor described the man “as homeless looking,” who approached Wells and his wife “begging for money” as a “heated” conversation ensued, according to a police report from a Joliet officer who responded to the scene. The Joliet detective, Paul Rodriguez, relayed to a reporter, “I don’t have an opinion on. In a brief telephone conversation with the BGA, Wells said he “definitely” was not the aggressor.
Wells was the aggressor.”īut Wells and his wife, who had been at the casino with her husband, told a Joliet police detective that the man punched by Wells had made “harassing statements of a blatantly sexual nature” and threatened to bite off Wells’ ear and “kill him,” according to a written account from the detective, who interviewed the couple more than two weeks after the Jan. An investigator for the Illinois gaming board – which regulates casinos in Illinois – stated in a report that, after reviewing the evidence, “it is clear Mr.
