A Las Vegas woman who admitted to pushing an elderly man off a public transit bus in 2019 was sentenced to prison Friday as part of a plea bargain.
Highlights
- Cadesha Bishop, 25, received a sentence of eight to 20 years for abuse of an older person resulting in death.
- On March 21, 2019, Bishop was captured on bus surveillance video arguing with Serge Fournier, 74.
- Bishop was seen pushing him, causing him to fall onto the sidewalk below.
- He was hospitalized later that day and died more than a month later of complications from blunt force trauma to the torso, according to the Clark County Coroner-Medical Examiner.
- Officials ruled his death a homicide.