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 yr, his legal professionals mentioned.
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 because of a purported accident,” and took him to a hospital the place he was pronounced lifeless, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division said in a statement.
Murder detectives realized that Mr. Tapp had been in “an altercation inside a room” on the resort, the assertion mentioned. The Clark County health worker’s workplace dominated that Mr. Tapp died because of blunt-force trauma to the pinnacle.
A legal 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, mentioned in an announcement 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 brief wrestling stint in World Wrestling Entertainment in failed bids for political workplace.
After shedding a Nevada State Senate race in 2018, Mr. Rodimer entered the 2020 Republican major for a congressional seat in Nevada.
Through the race, in 2019, The Associated Press reported that, based on Florida courtroom information 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 circumstances, 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 prices had been filed within the different two circumstances.
Mr. Rodimer, calling himself “Large 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 Full and Complete Endorsement!”
Mr. Rodimer captured greater than 45 % of the vote within the normal election, shedding by fewer than 13,000 votes to the incumbent Democrat, Consultant Susie Lee.
Lower than a yr 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 loss of life of Consultant Ron Wright, a Republican, in February 2021.
Mr. Rodimer promoted his previous endorsement from Mr. Trump and appeared in a bull-riding campaign ad talking with a Texas twang. He acquired lower than 3 % of the vote, ending eleventh in a subject 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 loss of life.
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 way that identifies suspects by matching crime scene DNA to relations, had been used to clear a convicted killer’s identify, based on the Innocence Project.
One other man, Brian Leigh Dripps Sr., later confessed to killing {the teenager}, Angie Dodge, and was sentenced in 2021 to life in jail.
