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Las Vegas bus passenger killed fellow passenger on Sunday after knifing the man 33 times

Aaron Cole, 59, has been charged with murdering 30-year-old Dominique Lucas

Men had been in an argument before stabbing, with no one coming to his aid

Cole is allegedly seen stabbing him on the floor repeatedly in bus surveillance footage

Victim fled to front of bus but assailant approached and stabbed him some more

Despite victim’s pleading to be let off driver kept driving and stunned witnesses watched bloodbath unfold

Lucas died from 33 stab wounds, according to the Clark County coroner’s office

Crazed passenger on a Las Vegas bus brutally killed a 30-year-old man by stabbing him 33 times in front of stunned witnesses – while the bus driver continued the journey.

This is the horrific moment a crazed passenger on a Las Vegas bus brutally killed a 30-year-old man by stabbing him 33 times in front of stunned witnesses, while the bus driver continued the journey.
Murder suspect Aaron Cole was deemed ‘low risk’ after threatening a family with a knife week before his murderous rampage onboard an RTC bus, records show
Cole, 59, has been charged with murdering Dominique Lucas on February 26, after the two men got into an argument, all caught by surveillance cameras inside the bus.
The shocking video, shown to a Clark County grand jury, of the incident inside the RTC bus shows Cole lunging at the victim.
Lucas is heard saying ‘I wasn’t bothering you,’ before he runs towards the front of the bus and asks the driver to ‘let me off’.

Killed: Dominique Lucas [photo] ran towards the front of the bus and told the driver to ‘let me off’, instead the driver ignored his request and continued driving as Cole knifed him 33 times

Cole is then allegedly seen stabbing him on the floor and the video shows the bus driver fail to stop and open the doors for another four minutes.
Lucas died from 33 stab wounds, according to the Clark County coroner’s office.
Shocking moment bus passenger is stabbed and pleads to be let out

Surveillance from bus shows the moment Aaron Cole stabbed fellow passenger Dominique Lucas 33 times as the RTC transport was in motion in Las Vega on Feb 26. Lucas died from his injuries

Aaron Cole [left], has been charged with murdering Dominique Lucas [front and center], on February 26 after the two men got into an argument

Lucas is heard saying ‘I wasn’t bothering you,’ before he runs towards the front of the bus and asks the driver to ‘let me off’.
The shocking video is evidence that was shown to a grand jury which indicted Cole on the murder charge last week.

Cole (pictured) is then allegedly seen stabbing him on the floor and the video shows the bus driver fail to stop and open the doors for another four minutes

The attacker is seen sitting back down in his seat before Lucas stands up to plead for help from the bus driver, the footage reveals.
He stumbles around the front area of the bus while bleeding out as the bus continues down Paradise Road.
The driver then activated a panic button, talked to a dispatcher and called 911 but he is heard saying to Lucas: ‘Man, come on, you want to get off the bus?’
A couple of minutes after the initial attack Cole allegedly got up and stabbed Lucas several more times again.
The shocking events began at 4.50pm but the bus did not stop and open its doors until 4.54pm when the driver was seen exiting the vehicle.
Lucas crawled out of the bus and onto the sidewalk without any help and a passerby was seen holding a towel to his chest to suppress the bleeding at around 4.57pm before Metro police officers arrived at the scene a minute later.
The driver told the grand jury that he kept the doors closed for the safety of the victim and the other passengers.

The shocking video is evidence that was shown to a grand jury which indicted Cole (pictured) on the murder charge last week
A couple of minutes after the initial attack Cole (pictured) allegedly got up and stabbed Lucas several more times again

The driver told the grand jury that he kept the doors closed for the safety of the victim and the other passengers.
“Is it protocol in regard to helping someone out when they get stabbed or injured?” a grand juror asked the driver.
“For the driver to help?” the driver responded.
“Yes,” the juror said.
“Physically?” the driver asked.
“Yes, for the driver to help physically,” the juror said.
“Not that I know of. I mean, the first priority is your own safety, so I’ve got to make sure I’m safe enough to operate that bus for the other passengers also,” the driver replied.
A spokesman for Keolis, which operates the bus for RTC, reaffirmed this and said the doors remained shut due to the risk of the victim or passengers running into traffic and because the bus would not be able to move if they were opened.

The bus driver [seen exiting], told the grand jury that he kept the doors closed for the safety of the victim and the other passengers?

The RTC bus was travelling on a diverted route due to a marathon and it eventually stopped near an intersection.
Cole was arrested on the bus where he was found sitting.
Records showed he was arrested just 10 days earlier on February 16 on a charge of assault with the use of a deadly weapon and two counts of carrying a concealed weapon.
And a source told 8 News Now, that Cole was arrested for allegedly threatening a person on a bus with a knife.

Cole served nearly 23 years in prison for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in 1994 after he he shot a man in a Salvation Army lobby and he was released in 2017, records show

Cole was released on February 22 by Judge Joseph Sciscento and was ordered not to have contact with the victim.
His public defender had argued for release on his own recognizance without setting bail but prosecutors asked for $3,000 bail.
The system courts use to determine bail deemed Cole ‘low risk’ in the pre-trial risk assessment.
Cole served nearly 23 years in prison for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in 1994 after he he shot a man in a Salvation Army lobby and he was released in 2017, officials in Texas confirmed.

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