Following a violent altercation inside Bozeman, Montana's Lucky Lil's Casino on Saturday night, two individuals have been charged with attempted deliberate homicide, according to local CBS station KBZK.
Shortly after police responded to complaints of a stabbing at the casino, Kyhl Lorenzen, 24, of Emigrant, Montana, and Summer Overgaauw were taken into custody. A man with knife wounds to his wrist and shoulder was discovered there.
The security footage of the event, according to the police, showed Lorenzen and the victim getting into a verbal altercation. Although the stabbing was not captured on camera, the video did show a minivan speeding at the victim, who managed to jump out of the way despite his injuries.
Later, investigators identified the driver as Lorenzen's acquaintance Summer Overgaauw. Overgaauw is linked to an unconnected homicide case from 2022 in which a guy by the name of Skyler Griebel shot and killed her ex-boyfriend Tyler Netto.
Shortly before he was slain, Netto, who had previously lived with Overgaauw, texted a sheriff's deputy, alleging that Griebel had threatened him with violence and that Overgaauw and Griebel were involved in illegal narcotics business.
On February 8, 2022, after Netto and a friend arrived to Overgaauw's house, Griebel and Netto got into a fight that became deadly. Griebel is awaiting sentencing after being convicted guilty of intentional murder in October 2025.
Overgaauw's bail was set at $50K on Monday, while Lorenzen's was set at $75K. During the investigation, police found 22 grams of meth on Lorenzen.
In the last week, there have been two reports of violent crimes in local casinos. A guy was detained on December 28 on suspicion of robbing and strangling a gambler in a toilet at Belgrade's Magic Diamond Casino, which is located roughly ten miles west of Bozeman.
Outside of tribal reservations, Montana's casinos are as little as they are numerous. They are often bars or taverns offering live card games, sports-themed pull tab games, and video gambling machines, occasionally with a liquor shop adjacent.
The state has about 1,400 licensed gambling companies, which may account for the media's regular coverage of robberies and shootings at Montana casinos.
However, there hasn't been a significant rise in crime in and surrounding casinos, according to a statement released last week by Captain Michael Van Meter of the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office. However, he continued, gamblers should continue to exercise caution.
“Anytime you’re handling significant quantities of cash in public, be very judicious about how you carry yourself, your belongings, and your valuables,” he said.
