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Las Vegas waiter almost killed by shooter sues celebrity-backed bail fund

A Las Vegas waiter who was nearly killed by a gunman out on bond is suing the celebrity-backed bail fund that helped secure the shooter’s release.

Chengyan Wang filed a lawsuit against The Bail Project after he was shot 11 times by Rashawn Gaston-Anderson, 24, in December 2021, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The lawsuit was filed in September but first reported last week by KLAS-TV.

“He’s got scars all over his body,” Kory Kaplan, Mr. Wang’s lawyer, told the Review-Journal. “He can’t move his shoulder over a certain height. I don’t know how [the bullets] missed a vital artery.