Fil-Am in Las Vegas worried for safety after physical assault | TFC News Nevada, USA
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The traces of blood remain visible inside his own garage, his home in this quiet gated neighborhood in southwest Las Vegas.
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This is 75-year-old Amadeo Candara. A black eye and stitches on the back of his head are a few of the physical injuries he sustained from the brutal attack by his neighbor, Christian Lentz.
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Every afternoon, the Candaras enjoy sitting inside their garage. But on the night of May 30th before the brutal attack, the attacker, 45-year-old Christian Lentz, walked onto Candara's driveway.
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Candara was talking to his Filipino neighbor in Tagalog. Lentz approached them and demanded them to speak English.
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I told him I'm not Yamamoto. My friend is not Japanese. We are Filipino.
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But the following day, he came here and I was sitting down right there.
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He approached me and said,
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That's after the following day?
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Yeah, the following day. He gave me the sign, thumb down, you're done. You're gonna be in the ventilator.
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I didn't pick that up. So 30 minutes later, he came back. And that's the time he really wanted to kill me.
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On this security camera footage from the Candaras, you can hear Candara screaming in pain. Then, Lentz is seen walking out of Candara's garage.
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Yeah, I was sitting down in there before I could stand up. He gave me the punch right here and I lost consciousness.
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So he kept punching me. He kept punching me here, here, to my head, and then lift me up and slammed me to the ground.
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When he left, he kept saying, die, die, die. Three times he said that, keep walking away.
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Candara says that he and his family have been living in this house since 2008. This brutal assault instills a deep sense of fear, given their old age.
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I'm so scared and I got a mental distress, you know, because how could you be scared when you see your husband lying in the pool of blood in fetal position?
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I am very scared. This is the first time this thing happened here. This is a very safe neighborhood.
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Candara says they continue to bear the physical and emotional burden of this incident, enduring its aftermath both physically and mentally.
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The Candaras have known Christian Lentz for years, as Lentz lives two houses away from their residence.
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Las Vegas court records show that Lentz was arrested by Las Vegas Metro and was charged on residential burglary.
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He was released but was ordered to stay out of trouble and stay away from the Candara house.
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They locked him up for like about only a few hours and then they let him go. I don't know what kind of law is that.
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Candara says that his physical wounds from the brutal assault will eventually heal but the emotional scars persist.
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The Candaras hope that this tragic situation will not happen to anyone.
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Bev Lorente, ABS-CBN News, Las Vegas.
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