Did Concert Security Guard Get Jabbed in Back With Hypodermic Needle at Snoop Dogg Show?

TINLEY PARK, IL — A Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre security guard was hospitalized and tested due to concerns he was jabbed in the back with a hypodermic needle last week, police said.

The 21-year-old was working the Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa concert Aug. 13 when “he felt two ‘blows’ to the right side of his back, which felt like the knuckles of a person’s hand,” police said. “At the same time (he) felt a sharp burning sensation on the right side of his back.”

The guard was “standing near the permanent T-shirt sales booth, on the south concourse near the elevators” when he was attacked, police said.

Right after he felt the burning sensation, the guard saw six men “briskly walking away from him toward gate 4,” police said. He then went to a men’s room where he “lifted his shirt and looked in the mirror and observed himself bleeding from the right side of his lower back,” and from there he went to a medical tent.

A police officer reportedly saw eight red marks on the guard’s back that “appeared consistent with fresh needle marks.”

The guard was taken to Franciscan St. James Health in Olympia Fields. He later reportedly told an officer that a doctor “said the marks on his back appeared consistent with an 18-gauge needle, though she did not confirm the marks were caused by needles.”

A preliminary drug screen of the guard’s blood and urine came back negative, police said.