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A man who was robbed outside of a casino owned by the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan shared details about the crime in court on Thursday. Austin Allen, 23, was robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot of the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort. He was lured there by an acquaintance who knew he had won $2,500 at a different tribal casino in Michigan -- FireKeepers Casino, owned by Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians. Samantha N. Wynn told Allen that she wanted to learn how to play a dice game. But because she's 19, she can't gamble at FireKeepers, so she told him to take her to Soaring Eagle instead, where the legal age is 18. “We were going to gamble; that’s what I thought,” Allen testified, The Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun reported. The two facilities are more than 100 miles apart, according to Google Maps. Allen said he went inside Soaring Eagle while Wynn remained in his car. She eventually made him come back to his car and that's when an accomplice, Taj M. Shackleford, also 19, pulled out a gun and asked for the money. According to the Morning Sun, Allen said Shackleford told him "The gun is loaded and I don’t want to prove it to you by blowing your brains all over the dashboard." Wynn and Shackleford got away with $2,100. They were quickly apprehended on their way to a hospital where another accomplice, a 15-year-old boy, was being treated because he accidentally shot himself before the crime occurred. Get the Story:
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