ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — An employee was shot Wednesday inside the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, and a suspect was in custody, police said.
The employee's injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, they said, and the casino remained open following the afternoon incident.
It was unknown what led to the shooting, which took place in a nonpublic room just off the casino floor, said Tom Hickey, a spokesman for Trump Entertainment Resorts, which runs the casino. The shooting and its aftermath were not visible from the gambling floor, he said.
The injured worker was being treated at a medical center. State police didn't immediately have the worker's name.
Police said they recovered the gun used in the shooting after arresting the suspect in a parking garage.
It was the second incident involving a gunshot at the casino this year.
On Jan. 30, a suspect in a New York embezzlement case pulled a gun and threatened to kill himself in an office there, sparking an 11-hour standoff that included his accidentally firing a shot before he surrendered.
In that incident, the man, from Coram, N.Y., was being sought by New York authorities who had tracked him to the casino and were escorting him into a security office.
During questioning, the man pulled out a handgun. A police officer pushed him into a holding cell and locked the door.
The Taj Mahal is the largest of three Atlantic City casinos run by Trump Entertainment Resorts, the gambling company formerly run by Donald Trump.
Trump relinquished control of it during a 2005 bankruptcy, and in February he resigned as its chairman when bond holders rebuffed his efforts to buy it.
The casino, located on the Boardwalk, is one of the largest in Atlantic City, with 4,000 slot machines and 210 tables games. It opened a 782-room second hotel tower last September.
The Taj Mahal, along with the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino and the Trump Marina Hotel and Casino, is in bankruptcy court following a February Chapter 11 filing. Thursday is the deadline for Trump Marina to be sold to a former protege of Trump.
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