A little gaming dimension inward Butte, Mont. was robbed this weekend after what’s believed to live the same suspect failed to draw off a robbery at another cassino just minutes before. The incidents took set 20 proceedings asunder on Saturday night, both past a masked robber of similar height.

In both crimes, a single suspect entered the attribute and showed a firearm, KXLF, a local TV station, reported. No single was injured.

At approximately 11:45 pm, a adult male entered Lisac’s Tri-Stop and Casino. He ordered an employee to bout o'er money. After the worker refused, the bandit attempted to acquire onto the gaming floor. But a player prevented him by block the doorway, the report said.

Apparently frustrated, the robber left. He never got any money.

Then, a unforesightful clip after midnight, a surmise entered the Happy Endings Casino. On that occasion, the robber was given money after he demanded it follow turned over. The exact amount stolen was non provided to the local media.

Same Height, Build

The surmise in both incidents was slender, nigh 5 feet 9 inches tall, the written report revealed based on constabulary statements. During the Lisac robbery, he had on a white coat. His human face was covered by a snowy bandana-style mask. He also wore sunglasses.

During the Happy Endings Casino robbery, he wore a sour beanie-style lid and a sullen human face mask. He also wore a saturnine hoodie.

It is unclear if the casinos has surveillance cameras, and if so, if cameras took video or pictures of the surmise or any possible get-away vehicle.

Robbers Chop Off Head With Hatchet

In an unrelated incident, a Montana adult male who decapitated a winning casino player inward 2017 was sentenced in June to 65 years inwards prison house for measured homicide.

Donald Ray Cherry, 34, was presumption the prison house term in the Yellowstone River County Courthouse inward Billings for the cleanup of Myron Wesley Knight. The dying was connected to a robbery after the bandits met Knight at Montana’s Lil’s Casino.

That night, Cherry and a indorse defendant, Jeffery Glen Haverty, 37, murdered Knight with a hatchet. They also decapitated him spell they were at a camping area nigh the casino.

Knight’s headless body later was found on a dirt shack nigh the transient camp. After the decapitation, Cherry allegedly hid Knight’s remains. His caput was found 30 feet away. It was wrapped inwards a towel under a agglomerate of leaves.

Haverty was previously sentenced to 50 years in prison for the robbery and killing. That condemn was proclaimed inwards February 2020.