Credit: Paul Fleet/Fotolia 'Magnet for Violent Crime': Pa. Suit Links 'Skills' Games to Shooting Death
"They're putting mini-casinos throughout all the corners of the state. The different between 'skills' games and casinos is that casinos are subject to Pennsylvania's laws and regulations that are there to protect the consumers and the operators to ensure that this kind of thing doesn't happen," Zimmerman said.
November 16, 2022 at 05:49 PM
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Gaming companies Pace-O-Matic and Primero Games say their video-operated devices are "skill games," but a new lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania claims that they are dangerous gambling devices that spread crime and led to the shooting death of a store clerk in December 2020.
A lawsuit filed Wednesday advances novel negligence and products liability claims against several electronic gaming device makers—including POM and Primero Games—over the shooting death of Ashokkumar Patel, who was killed when a gunman allegedly targeted the mini-mart where he worked because of the large amounts of cash the store needed on hand in order to pay out on the gaming machines.
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