LAS VEGAS (AP) — An outburst by
the father of a missing 10-year-old girl marred the first court hearing for a
casino card dealer accused of using razor blades to slash a co-worker's face at
a blackjack table
at an upscale Las Vegas
Strip resort.
Jade Morris' father, shouting "Where's my
baby at?" interrupted the initial appearance for Bellagio employee Brenda Stokes before an
armed Las Vegas Justice
Court bailiff ushered him into the hallway, KTNV-TV 13 News reported
(http://bit.ly/V553v5 ).
The girl was last seen by her family at
about 5 p.m. Friday in the custody of Stokes, 50, who also goes by the names
Brenda Stokes
Wilson and Brenda
Jean Stokes. KTNV-TV reported Stokes was engaged to the child's
father.
She was supposed to have taken the girl
shopping, police said.
According to investigators, at about 9:30 p.m. Friday,
Stokes wielded a razor blade in each hand as she attacked a female co-worker and
former friend at a blackjack table at the Bellagio.
Joyce Rhone, 44, was working at the time.
She was hospitalized with deep cuts on her face, including one from her ear to
the edge of her mouth, according to a police arrest report. Rhone also had
several smaller cuts around her right eye, the police report said.
Stokes was arrested and is being held at
the Clark County jail on felony battery with a weapon, burglary and mayhem
charges.
Stokes also told police she visited her doctor last week, seeking to be admitted to a hospital "due to feeling like she wanted to hurt someone."
She is reported to have told investigators she wasn't taking a prescription anti-anxiety drug, and that, "Sometimes people just snap."
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Information from: KTNV-TV,
http://www.ktnv.com
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