Six years after a casino gambling patron in his seventies, visiting from Wisconsin, was murdered with a knife by a transient wandering the downtown Joliet Harrah’s Casino Hotel, Harrah’s faces a negligence lawsuit, this time from a 2024 violent crime victim.
Dana Bass has retained Joliet’s Zayed Law Offices to file her Will County civil lawsuit against Harrah’s and 30-year-old violent criminal Marquel Jimerson, of Joliet’s Rooney Drive. According to her lawsuit filed Tuesday at the courthouse, Bass was a patron and guest of Harrah’s on Feb. 6, 2024, and a legal invitee of Harrah’s.
On the other hand, Jimerson was on Harrah’s ban list or otherwise determined by Harrah’s “that Harrah’s was not to permit Mr. Jimerson to enter Harrah’s premises,” her lawsuit noted.
