MURDER USA: Horseshoe Casino Winner Clarence Buckner’s Luck Ran Out as Murderer Lurked Near the Slot Machines and Followed Him Home

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BALTIMORE, MD. – As Baltimore’s murder rate heats up to set yet another record year of homicide, one man’s slaying again shows the heartbreak of the relentless attack on law and order by the feckless political class of the city leaves on the average person.

Clarence Buckner, 66, spent the day at the Horseshoe Casino and had a bit of luck, as he sometimes does, cashed out his winnings and left for home.  What he didn’t know was that a killer lurked near where he was playing the slot machines.  The Casino likely knows who the killer is and had a great video of him as he stalked gamblers to make his selection of his next victim and followed him out to the parking lot. With an extensive array of surveillance cameras, the Casino management likely has a good idea of the identity of this killer.

Elizabeth Buckner told police that her husband returned home on January 30, 2022, at approximately 5:55 p.m., from spending the afternoon at the Horseshoe Casino.  She told the Baltimore Sun reporter Jessica Anderson that her husband, a retired elementary school cook at City Springs Elementary in East Baltimore, liked to spend Sunday afternoons playing slot machines and often won.  

Clarence sat down in the living room of their bungalow on Rueckert Avenue in Baltimore, Md, and she decided to go outside to check the mail. As she did so, a gunman forced her back into the house and told her she had twenty seconds to produce the money.

She told the Sun that the man claimed that he knew her husband had the money and followed him home from the casino.  When her husband gave the armed robber some money, the man said he wanted more; he knew there was more. Her husband distracted the robber for a second, and she fled to the next-door neighbor who called the police.

At that point, Elizabeth Buckner said she heard a gunshot and ran back to her home, where she found her husband lying wounded on the floor of the living room of their home. 

Baltimore Police reported that Buckner was still alive when they arrived, and he was taken to a hospital where he died from an apparent gunshot wound.  

The couple has 12 children and 25 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

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