![]() ‘Duty of Care Exists’ĭixon argued in her lawsuit that Caesars had a duty of care to protect guests from Watson. Police found Burgarino’s bloodstained cash in his backpack. Watson was arrested the next day in the Joliet Public Library, just two blocks from the casino. ![]() ![]() They claim he was mentally incompetent at the time of the killing. The perpetrator, Robert Watson, a transient with a history of violence, is said by his lawyers to be suffering from schizophrenia. The plaintiff, Denise Dixon, sued the casino operator in February 2021 over the death of her partner Emanuel “Sam” Burgarino, 12 months earlier.īurgarino, 76, was stabbed 26 times and robbed in a shocking attack that took place in a hallway on the hotel’s fifth floor. On Wednesday, US District Judge Manish Shah rejected Caesars’ motion to dismiss the $6 million lawsuit. But did the casino fail in its duty of care to protect its patrons? (Image: ) Drifter Robert Watson, above, unleashed a frenzied knife attack on a stranger at the Harrah’s Joliet. can sue the casino’s owner, Caesars Entertainment, for negligence, a federal judge has ruled. The fiancée of a Wisconsin man brutally stabbed to death by a stranger at the Harrah’s Joliet Hotel & Casino in Joliet, Ill.
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