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Shootout At The Trump Taj Mahal

Where: 1000 Boardwalk at Virginia Avenue [map], Atlantic City, NJ, United States, 08401

Ugh. An employee of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City was killed yesterday after sustaining gunshot wounds during what appears to have been an attempted robbery at the Casino. The victim, a shift manager who had been working for the hotel since the first day it opened (almost 20 years) died after a frequent patron of the casino shot him in his office.

Eerily, nobody on the casino floor really noticed all the ruckus going on. According to CBS news:

The shooting and its aftermath were not visible from the casino floor, and the gambling hall remained fully open until management shut its table games down Wednesday evening and sent home workers assigned there. Slot machines remained open.

Yeah. Gotta keep those slots open, no matter what, apparently.

This is the latest in a string of unfortunate incidents at the hotel: in January, there was an 11-hour standoff with a man waving a gun around and, in February, the hotel filed for Chapter 11.