Mike Heslin died after Vegas restaurant stopped ICU nurse performing CPR: suit

Security at a swanky Las Vegas restaurant forcibly stopped an ICU nurse performing CPR on stricken Hallmark actor Michael Heslin, and threatened to call the cops on her while she tried to save his life, attorneys for his widower have told The Post.

Heslin, 30, died suddenly after suffering a heart attack during a birthday meal at Javier’s Restaurant at the ARIA Resort & Casino on the Strip in June 2024.

A new lawsuit filed by Heslin’s spouse Nicholas Wilson, better known as Scotty Dynamo, alleges that restaurant staff not only failed to intervene when it was clear the actor was having a medical emergency, but also directly interfered with a fellow diner — a trained medical professional — when she was helping him.

“The woman that was performing CPR presented herself as an ICU nurse,” Millie Mummery, a personal injury attorney at Las Vegas-based firm De Castroverde Law Group, told The Post.

“It’s believed that she was another patron or diner at Javier’s,” she said. “Upon noticing the commotion of the medical emergency, she presented herself as an ICU nurse and started performing CPR.”

The Good Samaritan performed the potentially life-saving action for “a period of time,” before she was “interrupted by a security guard that removed her from Michael Heslin,” Mummery said.

“Ultimately, she was forced outside of the premises, and it’s believed that they threatened to trespass her and told her she had to leave,” she said. 

Attorneys accused restaurant staff at the casino, which is owned by MGM Resorts, of fatal incompetence after they allegedly failed to bring over an automated external defibrillator (AED) which could have saved Heslin’s life.

“It’s pretty simple. MGM had a duty to keep the premises safe and to be able to respond to an event like this,” Orlando De Castroverde, a partner at De Castroverde Law Group, told The Post.

He added that it appeared restaurant staff “weren’t prepared to handle that type of situation,” and that security were “just standing around” while Heslin was clearly suffering from a heart attack.

Describing their alleged actions as “incompetence,” he speculated as to whether the incident was down to a “lack of training or supervision.”

Restaurant staff were also accused of acting too slowly.

“Obviously when there’s a sudden medical emergency, time is of the essence, and in this situation, instead of responding quickly and swiftly to provide medical care or to retrieve an AED, instead they fumbled, and time was wasted and an AED was not presented or used,” Mummery said.

Heslin’s devastated widower is still struggling to come to terms with what happened some 15 months on, his attorneys said.

“This is obviously very hard for Nicholas to have to relive. The loss of his husband has been very challenging for him to deal with,” Mummery said.

“Right now, he’s just still kind of processing everything, and I think ultimately he wants accountability, and also to ensure that things like this don’t get swept under the rug,” she said.

Heslin died in the hospital on July 2, 2024, a week after the incident at the Vegas Mexican restaurant.

An official cause of death for the actor, who starred in the Zoe Saldana series “Lioness” and TV movie “The Holiday Plan,” is not listed in the lawsuit.

As part of the complaint, filed at the district court in Clark County, Nevada, lawyers are seeking in excess of $30,000, including funeral expenses and punitive damages.

Representatives for Javier’s Restaurant in Las Vegas, ARIA Resort & Casino, and MGM Resorts did not respond immediately to requests for comment.