Wynn Las Vegas Sued for Negligence After Boy Nearly Drowned
Posted on: May 16, 2025, 02:36h.
Last updated on: May 16, 2025, 02:36h.
The family of a Utah boy who nearly drowned in a Wynn Las Vegas swimming pool is suing the casino resort company for negligence.
According to the lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in Clark County District Court, Joseph Stanley III dove to the bottom of the Encore pool after his 7-year-old son noticed that his 3-year-old brother, Wyatt, was not surfacing.
Joseph scooped up his son’s lifeless body, swam to the surface and yelled for help.
Luckily, an ER doctor and an NFL coach happened to be visiting the pool at the time because, according to the lawsuit, that’s who resuscitated the tyke — not a Wynn lifeguard.
Raheem Morris, the Atlanta Falcons head coach who at the time was defensive coordinator for the LA Rams, told the story two weeks later to ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America,” which reunited him with Wyatt.
“I’m sitting down and my kids all scream, I see Wyatt laying poolside and he’s blue,” he recalled.
Initially, Andrew Oleksyn, an ER physician from Dekalb, Ill., administered chest compressions, cradling Wyatt’s head. Then, in a calm tone, he said to Raheem: “There’s no pulse. We need to use the AED.”
“I looked to the lifeguard and I said, ‘Where is the AED machine?’” Morris recalled.
Raheem and Oleksyn got its pads connected to Wyatt. Then they delivered an electric shock, as the machine recommended. After rhythm was restored to his heart, Wyatt belched water and food and began breathing. He was transported to a local hospital for testing, then released.
Morris only knew how to use an automated external defibrillator because he signed up for CPR training two weeks earlier, after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest against the Cincinnati Bengals that was broadcast on Monday Night Football.
“Numerous individuals within the near vicinity, including a vacationing doctor and a professional football coach, began rendering aid and life-saving measures and CPR on Wyatt after defendant’s employees were incapable and/or unsuccessful in doing so,” the lawsuit reads.
The suit accuses The Wynn of gross negligence, negligent hiring, training retention and supervision and negligent infliction of emotional distress. It seeks general, compensatory, special and punitive damages in excess of $15,000, in addition to attorney fees.
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Why were the parents not in the pool with the 3 year old? They seem pretty irresponsible.