Sanchez and Jacobson's cousin, who declined to be identified, were treated at University Medical Center in Las Vegas and released. 'It seems like some local guy who snapped and went to the hotel to do it,' police Officer Ramon Denby said. Police said they believed Zegrean entered the casino from a walkway connecting the New York-New York to the MGM Grand, and walked past a vendor and a shop before opening fire near the top of the bank of escalators.
'We thought it was fireworks,' the teenager said. He was with his mother and older brother, who works at the casino's Manhattan Express roller coaster. Troy Sanchez, a 13-year-old from Van Nuys, Calif., who was wounded in the left ankle, said he heard more than 10 gunshots from a balcony over an escalator that takes customers to the casino floor. She described Steven Zegrean as a Hungarian immigrant and unemployed house painter who liked to gamble. He's been threatening the family for some time now. 'I love my cousin and everything,' she said, 'but his temper and not being able to relate has really gotten worse recently.
Melody Zegrean, 43, a Las Vegas resident who identified herself as Steven Zegrean's cousin, said he had been divorced for several years and estranged from most of his family since his ex-wife remarried.
