The Public Restroom Murder

The horrible death of Sherrice Iverson

May 25, 1997

Primm, Nevada

Sherrice Iverson (7) is assaulted and killed in a casino restroom.

Sherrice and her older brother Harold (14) were supporting their father, Leroy Iverson, at a casino in Primm. Iverson didn’t have sufficient money for a room and instead scheduled to spend a few hours in the casino while his kids played on the balcony. He said to the authority had done this various times in the past without incident. 

As Sherrice and Harold were not allowed on the casino floor, Harold was set in charge of watching Sherrice. At some step, the siblings separated, and Sherrice started to run around the establishment unmonitored and was returned to her dad many times. 

Around 4 am, Jeremy Strohmeyer (18) was caught playing with Sherrice. He later followed her into the women’s restroom where the two continued their cheerful exchanges, tossing wet paper towel rolls at each other. Strohmeyer’s friend, David Cash (17) then arrived at the women’s restroom and noticed Strohmeyer forcing Sherrice into a cell. Cash also noticed Strohmeyer’s left hand over Sherrice’s mouth to calm her while attacking her with his right hand. Cash went out of the restroom. Twenty minutes later, Strohmeyer also came out. He immediately admitted he had molested and murdered Sherrice, strangling her to restrict her shouts. As he was leaving, Strohmeyer noticed Sherrice was still alive and twisted her neck to crack it. He listened to a “loud pop,” though he saw slight movement from her body and shook it again “with all his strength” before resting her corpse on the toilet. 

Strohmeyer was caught three days later after classmates identified him from security camera footage. 

Strohmeyer was charged with abducting, killing, and sexual assault a minor, and faced the death sentence. As part of a plea bargain, he pleaded guilty to first-degree killing, first-degree abduction, a sexual attack on a minor with vast bodily harm, and a sexual attack on a minor. He was sentenced to life in jail without the chance of parole. 

Sherrice’s mother demanded Cash be charged as an addition, but a lack of information against him prevented the filing of any charges. He showed no remorse towards the killing, telling the Los Angeles Times “I’m not going to get scared over somebody else's life. I just concern about myself first. I’m not going to lose sleep over somebody else's problems.”

Sherrice’s murdering, and David Cash’s inaction, brought about the Sherrice Iverson bill.

The bill fairly requires a person with reasonable suspicion that a minor is being sexually attacked to report the crime to the police.

Source: Today in Horror history