qaeda are calling for retaliation, so law enforcement across the world on high alert tonight. david? will carr, our thanks to you again tonight. and back here at home now, and to news this evening about a deadly casino robbery in las vegas that played out this weekend. in fact, tonight, new surveillance images have just been released. police say the armed suspect demanded money from the poker cage at the belliago and then a gunfight erupts with the officers as he tries to escape the vegas strip. here s abc s clayton sandell. reporter: tonight, a violent las vegas casino shootout seen from surveillance cameras. police say it started friday night. the suspect, michael cohen, armed with a gun, demanding money from a belliago cashier. cohen entered the bellagio poker room and robbed the casino cage at gunpoint. cohen fled with cash and casino chips he stole from the cage and exited through the north doors into the valet area. reporter: as cohen was running out of the casino, so w
here s abc s nick watt. reporter: security cameras catch the robber strolling into the bellagio wearing glasses, a wig, a hat and what looks like a bandage across his face. strolling. he s armed. he s in the casino, straight to the poker room. he went up to the poker cage and proceeded to rob the cage and took off with an unknown amount of cash. reporter: the gun stays hidden. the clerk quietly, quickly hands over cash. it s over in seconds. no one was hurt. the robber is now breaking into a jog as he makes for the exit, brushing past an unsuspecting woman on his way out. cops are called. a white male, 40s, armed with a .22 caliber handgun. reporter: cameras pick up his silver chevy peeling off the property. whatever amount of cash he got is not enough to face a lifetime in prison. reporter: vegas police believe this was a one-man job. they have recovered the getaway car, but 48 hours after that audacious hit, the robber remains at large.
heather: the search for a brazen sin city robber ramping up this morning, the new surveillance video the arm suspect strolling into the world-famous hotel hoping someone can identify him. he is then seen leaning over a poker cage to demand money from the cashier with gamblers sitting just feet away and takes an unknown amount of cash and runs back out the front door. texas state university slams over an opinion column in which the writer says he, quote, hates right people. an article in the university start titled your dna is an abomination reads in part i see why people as an apparition, i hate you because you shouldn t exist. wrote an apology after back lash, calling it a racist
bars. stephen avery denied a new trial again after his lawyer claimed she had no evidence proving his innocence which avery and his nephew were sentenced to life in prison for the murder of teresa hallmark in 2007. i stakes heist in sin city, not talking about the plot to a new movie, police hunting for this brazen bandit who held up a poker cage. the man walked into a room full of gamblers, pulled out a gun and demanded money from the cashier. actor james woods claimed nearby, it was fantastic and surrendered the money quietly so no customers would get worse, no one realized what was happening, excellent staff, cool under pressure.
keep your mouth shut. is the only thing he s accused of doing. were there other things he did while at the hotel? he did not have a prior criminal record, according to police, but police did say that prior to the heist they suspect that whoever did the bellagio heist was also involved in another casino heist. this one occurred on december 8 at the sun coast casino on the northwest part of town, more of a locals casino. in a very similar fashion a suspect walked in with a motorcycle helmet, went to the poker cage and demanded money at gunpoint and he got $20,000 and fled. yeah. that one wasn t as high profile because they didn t have the video. the video of him running out with the helmet, that s amazing. his dad is a judge. we said that. has he said anything yet? he hasn t said much publicly but on thursday, the morning after his son was arrested he