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A Las Vegas judge sentenced Shiloh Leutu to 3 to 8 years in a food-bank beating death.
News 3 Las Vegas reported that on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2026, a judge sentenced Shiloh Leutu, 38, to three to eight years in the Nevada Department of Corrections after he pleaded guilty in August to voluntary manslaughter in the July 9 death of Scott Dennis, 60, outside City Impact Urban Food Bank. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported District Judge Jacqueline Bluth handed down the sentence and that the coroner listed heart disease with a physical altercation as a contributing factor.
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A voluntary-manslaughter plea and a three-to-eight-year term are the conviction and the sentence on that count. They are not a murder verdict. News 3 reported Leutu received credit for 84 days served. The Review-Journal reported a warrant remains for a second man, Justin Ott. Leutu's sentence does not resolve Ott's case.
News 3 Las Vegas reported that Shiloh Leutu pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in August and that on Tuesday a judge sentenced him to three to eight years in the Nevada Department of Corrections, with credit for 84 days already served. The Las Vegas Review-Journal, writing from court records and dating the piece Oct. 9 with an Oct. 10 update, identified him as 38, said District Judge Jacqueline Bluth handed down the sentence, and said Dennis, 60, died after a beating outside City Impact Urban Food Bank at 928 E. Sahara Ave. on July 9. The Review-Journal reported Dennis later died at Sunrise Hospital and that his girlfriend called 911 just before 6:20 a.m. A plea is the conviction. Tuesday's hearing imposed the range.
The Review-Journal reported the Clark County coroner's database listed the cause as heart disease with a "physical altercation" as a contributing factor, and that Leutu's arrest report said the assault might have caused Dennis to have a heart attack. News 3, citing the arrest report, said Dennis and his girlfriend were standing in line when a man approached her and yelled after she said she had no cigarettes, that an argument followed, that one suspect threw something at Dennis and swung at him, and that a second suspect then punched Dennis in the head and abdomen before both men walked away. The Review-Journal's account of surveillance described an unidentified man insulting the girlfriend, Dennis intervening, food thrown, a fight pulled into the parking lot, and repeated punches to the head and abdomen while the man held Dennis's right arm. Those are the arrest-report and surveillance descriptions the outlets published. They are the factual basis for the plea, not a new trial record.
News 3 reported only Leutu was arrested and charged, and that court documents say a warrant has been issued for Justin Ott since July 21. The Review-Journal's sentencing story focused on Leutu and letters of support his public defender submitted from his sister and a friend before sentencing. A warrant for a second suspect is an open process item. It is not Leutu's sentence.
Three to eight years is the judgment Judge Bluth imposed on the voluntary-manslaughter plea. It is not a finding on a murder count. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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