Poker Room Robbery, Strangling Suspect Indicted

The suspect in a brutal beating and robbery at The Poker Room earlier this year has been indicted on five charges in Rockingham County Superior Court.

Bryan Adam Lisio, 25, a Hampton resident currently incarcerated in the Rockingham County House of Corrections, was recently indicted by a grand jury on two Class A felony counts of armed robbery, one Class B felony count each of unarmed robbery, second-degree assault with bodily injury, and second-degree assault (strangulation).

Lisio allegedly waited in the parking lot of The Poker Room as the 64-year-old victim got out of his car on Jan. 31. Lisio—armed with a handgun—attacked the man, beating him over the head, strangling him, and demanding money, police have said. Lisio then took $80 that the man had in his wallet, police have said.

Lisio fractured the other man’s orbital bone and applied “pressure” to his “throat or neck area” during the robbery, according to the indictments.

Police arrested Lisio in February on one count of felony armed robbery and two counts of second-degree assault. Lisio, who has previous arrests for theft, assault, and DWI, was following his arraignment.