Sting operation: man bashes 'sleeping' manequin w/ hammer, now charged w/ attempted murder

LINK w/ news video imbedded

LAS VEGAS — The surveillance video shows a man walking back and forth at the intersection of Ogden and City Parkway in downtown Las Vegas.

The video is from Feb. 23.

Police say the man in the video is Shane Schindler and, after a few minutes, he makes an unexpected move.
The video shows Schindler standing over the mannequin decoy they placed in a sleeping bad.
A minute later, he reaches into a plastic bag and pulls out a mini-sledgehammer.
He uses both arms to lift the hammer over his head and strikes the mannequin.

Seconds later, Schindler walks away and officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department move in with guns drawn.

LVMPD Officer Larry Hadfield called the sting an innovative way to try and catch a suspected killer.
“You have a person who was randomly killing people and because of some out of the box thinking you had someone who was dangerous to anyone in this community, get put in jail, right where he belongs,” said Officer Larry Hadfield.

despite what the video shows he says he never used it to hit the mannequin.





Why do you ask is a man charged with attempted murder for this? The whole point of the sting operation was to catch who killed two previous homeless people in the same area as this sting operation that was setup by the police.

Even though it seemed to have caught who they were looking for, I could see plenty of wriggle room for the defense to get out of this one, even though Shane Schindler seems like a worthless POS.