Siegfried & Roy Shooter Captured
Someone went gunning for Siegfried and Roy last month, and here's the kicker: A former NFL placekicker is now in custody for the crime
Former Oakland Raider Cole Ford remains in Las Vegas' Clark County Detention Center Wednesday, after being nabbed in a Kinko's near the Strip on Tuesday afternoon when a tipster recognized the shaggy ex-player using a computer and alerted police.
Apparently, the Kinko's employee who called police had seen Ford, 31, profiled on an Oct. 19 episode of America's Most Wanted.
Ford faces six felony counts of discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle and two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Earlier reports suggested the former NFL player could be facing a hate crime charge due to alleged remarks overheard at the time of the shooting, but investigators eventually decided the attack didn't warrant the hate-crime label.
Ford is being held on $1.3 million bail and faces a hearing on Friday.
Las Vegas police had been on the hunt for the former pro footballer for the past 41 days.
Ford, whose ill-fated three-year turn in silver and black ended in 1997 after he missed some mind-numbingly easy kicks (he made just 59 percent of his field goal attempts during the 1997 season), was fingered by police as the owner of a white Chevy minivan involved in the Sept. 21 drive-by shooting at the lavish Jungle Palace owned by Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn
The assailant, armed with a shotgun, screamed, "We need to get...Siegfried and Roy out of country," before unloading several shots, breaking windows and leaving a large hole in the house.
The tiger-taming, magic-making twosome were not at their Vegas digs at the time of the shooting and no one was injured. However, there were at least two workers at the house who were able to identify the fleeing vehicle. Police believe Ford was alone at the time.
There was no immediate comment from Ford's family. Earlier reports suggested the former kicker might be suffering mental illness. He had largely dropped off the grid since his gridiron days ended.
Speaking to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Siegfried and Roy's manager, Bernie Yuman, said, "The bottom line is [the police] did their job. They're to be commended. Let justice take its course."
Siegfried & Roy's Las Vegas show was shut down last year after Horn suffered a near-fatal tiger mauling during a performance.
Horn remains partially paralyzed and continues physical rehabilitation.
Meanwhile, the duo got some bad news earlier this week when NBC announced it was pulling Father of the Pride, the expensive, heavily hyped CGI cartoon series based on the backstage life of Siegfried and Roy's big cats.
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