A Hit at the Luxor

An explosion in the parking garage at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas has killed one:

A device left in a casino parking garage exploded early Monday, killing a man who tried to pick it up off the top of his car, authorities said.

The device exploded shortly after 4 a.m. on the second floor of a parking garage behind the Luxor hotel-casino, said Officer Bill Cassell, a police spokesman. He declined to describe the device, but said initial reports that it was inside a backpack were wrong.

The blast was not a terrorist act but an apparent murder of a man who worked at a business inside the hotel, he said, adding that the case was being investigated as "a homicide with an unusual weapon."

No threat had been made against the Luxor, Cassell said.

"We believe the victim of this event was the intended target," Cassell said. He said another person who was with the man narrowly escaped injury.

Gordon Absher, a spokesman for MGM Mirage Inc., which owns the Luxor, said the victim was not a company employee.

I spent five days at the Luxor in 2004 and parked in that garage everyday. It looks like somebody went to a lot of effort to kill somebody, using an explosive device that could have been picked up by the wrong person.

When the mob ran the town it was said that nobody was ever killed who didn't deserve killing. I'm not sure what this situation will turn out to be.