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A Republican candidate who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in Nevada in 2020 with the backing of President Donald J. Trump surrendered to the police on Wednesday after he was charged with killing a person in Las Vegas final 12 months, his legal professionals stated.
The Las Vegas police issued an arrest warrant earlier on Wednesday for the previous candidate, Daniel Rodimer, 45, a onetime skilled wrestler, after he was charged with murdering Christopher Tapp, 47, at a resort on the Las Vegas Strip on Oct. 29.
Medical staff discovered Mr. Tapp “affected by accidents on account of a purported accident,” and took him to a hospital the place he was pronounced dead, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department stated in a press release.
Homicide detectives discovered that Mr. Tapp had been in “an altercation inside a room” on the resort, the assertion stated. The Clark County medical expert’s workplace dominated that Mr. Tapp died on account of blunt-force trauma to the pinnacle.
A prison grievance accuses Mr. Rodimer of placing Mr. Tapp on the pinnacle and says the killing was “willful, deliberate and premeditated.”
Mr. Rodimer’s legal professionals, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, stated in a press release that Mr. Rodimer had “voluntarily surrendered, posted bond and intends to vigorously defend the case.”
Mr. Rodimer, who grew up in New Jersey, performed up his brash persona and a quick wrestling stint in World Wrestling Entertainment in failed bids for political workplace.
After dropping a Nevada State Senate race in 2018, Mr. Rodimer entered the 2020 Republican major for a congressional seat in Nevada.
During the race, in 2019, The Associated Press reported that, based on Florida court docket data and sheriff’s workplace paperwork, Mr. Rodimer had been accused of punching or throwing somebody to the bottom in three separate disputes at nightclubs and eating places between 2010 and 2013.
In one of many instances, from 2010, Mr. Rodimer pleaded responsible to a misdemeanor battery cost and accomplished a six-week anger administration course in change for the cost being dropped, The A.P. reported. No expenses have been filed within the different two instances.
Mr. Rodimer, calling himself “Big Dan,” beat 5 candidates to win the Republican major in Nevada’s Third Congressional District in June 2020. In October 2020, Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter that “Dan has my Complete and Total Endorsement!”
Mr. Rodimer captured greater than 45 p.c of the vote within the normal election, dropping by fewer than 13,000 votes to the incumbent Democrat, Representative Susie Lee.
Less than a 12 months later, Mr. Rodimer ran for Congress once more, this time in a crowded particular election within the Sixth Congressional District in Texas, which was left vacant after the demise of Representative Ron Wright, a Republican, in February 2021.
Mr. Rodimer promoted his previous endorsement from Mr. Trump and appeared in a bull-riding marketing campaign advert talking with a Texas twang. He acquired lower than 3 p.c of the vote, ending eleventh in a area of 23 candidates competing for a spot in a runoff.
A spokesman for Mr. Trump’s 2024 presidential marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Friday.
Mr. Tapp had endured a authorized nightmare earlier than his demise.
In 2019, after spending greater than 20 years in jail, he was exonerated within the 1996 rape and homicide of an 18-year-old lady in Idaho Falls, Idaho. It was the primary time genetic family tree, a method that identifies suspects by matching crime scene DNA to family members, had been used to clear a convicted killer’s identify, based on the Innocence Project.
Another man, Brian Leigh Dripps Sr., later confessed to killing {the teenager}, Angie Dodge, and was sentenced in 2021 to life in jail.
