LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The person who killed his neighbor for blocking a part of his driveway — and shot one other particular person in an earlier, once-unsolved parking-related taking pictures — may serve the remainder of his life in jail, a choose dominated Tuesday.
In November 2022, police arrested Robert Salone, 43, for the October 2022 killing of Christopher “Dice” Allen, 33. The taking pictures occurred on Tipper Avenue close to the intersection of Hacienda Avenue and Nellis Boulevard within the southeast valley. The lads lived throughout the road from one another.
Earlier than the taking pictures, Salone and Allen have been arguing about Allen’s automotive partially blocking Salone’s driveway, police stated. Allen known as 911 round 12:40 p.m. on the day of the homicide, saying somebody shot him. Salone drove off after the taking pictures.
Earlier this 12 months, Salone entered an Alford plea to prices of first-degree homicide and tried homicide, data stated. An Alford plea means the defendant doesn’t admit guilt however agrees prosecutors have sufficient proof to persuade a jury to convict him. As a part of the deal, Salone agreed to serve not less than 21 years in jail.
An proof photograph of Robert Salone taken after his arrest on Nov. 22, 2022. (KLAS)
“It wasn’t planned,” Salone informed the courtroom earlier than Clark County District Court docket Decide Carli Kierny sentenced him to 21 years to life. “I am remorseful. I think about it every day.” Ought to the Nevada Parole Board ever grant Salone parole, he would stay beneath the supervision of a probation officer.
The tried homicide cost stems from an incident in Henderson in August 2021, the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported. In that case, an individual who took up two parking areas at a Henderson condominium complicated additionally turned Salone’s sufferer, prosecutors stated.
That particular person, a younger man visiting buddies on the complicated on Whitney Ranch Drive close to Russell Highway, informed police he “double parked” in a covered-parking space, based on paperwork the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained. A couple of half-hour later, the person returned to his automotive, discovering one other car parked “within inches” of his door, paperwork stated.
A person, who detectives and prosecutors stated was Salone, was additionally there, arguing with the customer about his parking job, paperwork stated. Detectives in Henderson imagine Salone fired three pictures on the driver, who stated the person shot at him as he was leaving the complicated, paperwork stated.
It was not till the bullets within the two crime scenes matched in a police database that police tied Salone to the 2 parking-related crimes. Paperwork the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained reveal the August 2021 parking-related taking pictures was labeled “gang-related.” Detectives additionally stated the sufferer “was not forthcoming” with data and later beneficial the case be closed.
Salone has remained in custody since his 2022 arrest on greater than $1.1 million bail. With credit score for time served, Salone can be in his 60s if the Nevada Parole Board grants him launch after 21 years.
