Two Men Sought in Death of Girl at Casino

LAS VEGAS — Authorities on Monday were searching for two men in connection with the death of a 7-year-old Los Angeles girl whose body was found in a restroom at the Primadonna Resort on the Nevada-California line.

The body was found before dawn Sunday in a women’s restroom on the arcade level of the Primadonna resort. According to police, there was evidence the child had been attacked and killed in the restroom.

The child’s identity had not been released late Monday. An autopsy by the Clark County coroner’s office was pending.

Las Vegas police said two men were seen talking to the girl in the arcade before her death.

The first man was described as clean-shaven, in his late teens to early 20s with short light brown to blond hair. He was wearing a dark baseball cap backward on his head. The cap had lettering or a logo on the front and the left side. He also wore a colored T-shirt and light-colored knee-length shorts.

The second man is also in his late teens to 20s, with dark short hair and sideburns. He was wearing a dark polo-type short-sleeved shirt and dark knee-length shorts.

Police Lt. Wayne Petersen said the victim and her 14-year-old brother were at the resort with their father.

Petersen said the father had been gambling in the casino and went to look for his daughter, who had been playing in the arcade.

In a statement issued Monday, Primadonna officials said the family was not registered at the hotel. According to the statement, hotel security found the girl alone at 1:30 a.m. and paged her family. Her older brother came and got her, but the girl was left alone again later that morning, the statement said.