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The suspect in the fatal stabbing of two Las Vegas residents on the city’s famous strip has been named as 32-year-old Yoni Barrios.
The Clark County coroner’s office named Brent Allan Hallett, 47, and Maris Mareen Digiovanni, 30, as the two who were killed in the crazed knife attack that also saw four showgirls get slashed in broad daylight.
The horror unfolded around 11:40 am local time on Thursday.
The entertainers who were attacked were said to have been outside the Wynn greeting tourists when the deranged knifeman launched the vicious attack.
According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Barrios is thought to have acted alone and investigators believe that it was an isolated incident.
This attack has prompted fears for safety among the strip’s street performers.
The suspect reportedly had a kitchen knife and told the showgirls he was a chef that wanted to take a photo with them.
Earlier, Barrios was described as an Hispanic male in this 30s. He is not a resident of Las Vegas.
When they refused the stabbings started, recounted a woman who said four of the injured showgirls worked for her.
A total of eight were hurt, according to Captain Dori Koren of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police. The remaining three are in a stable condition.
Barrios was arrested ‘very quickly’, said Koren.
The suspect in the fatal stabbing of two Las Vegas residents on the city’s famous strip has been named as 32-year-old Yoni Barrios
Tourists are among the victims, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo later told the media.
During that press conference Metropolitan Police Department Deputy Chief James LaRochelle said that the suspect started stabbing without provocation.
He said that authorities are in possession of video showing the suspect leaving the original scene and running down Las Vegas Boulevard heading towards Sands Boulevard.
Barrios was held by Sands security guards until the police arrived.
Following the stabbing, Geli Woods, the owner of Mystique Showgirls, told KTNV that she always tells her employees to be on their guard while working the strip and arm themselves with pepper spray.
Woods said: ‘My girls walk down that way all the time. We always go down there. That could have been us.’
She added: ‘I have had some of my employees who don’t want to showgirl anymore, and I really don’t blame them because it’s a scary situation.’
Those sentiments were echoed somewhat by Bobi Jo Milstead, the owner of Stardust Starlets.
She told KSNV: ‘Honestly, I’m very shaken up all of the girls are. It’s scary because it can happen to anybody.’
Milstead also said: ‘It’s a hard thing to deal with. I know some girls have pulled out tasers and pepper sprays on people who are just manhandling them. Treating them like their property and they’re not. Yes, they’re out there dressed up, but they don’t belong to the world.’
Video shown by officials at a press conference hours after the stabbing showed the suspect fleeing the scene
Pierre Fandrich told 13 Action News he thought he heard showgirls laughing, but they were in fact screaming
A victim of the brutal knife attack on Las Vegas strip was rushed away on a stretcher by members of Clark County Fire Department
The suspect, who is now in custody, reportedly had a kitchen knife and told the showgirls he was a chef that wanted to take a photo with them
An area cordoned off outside the Palazzo casino after the stabbing on Las Vegas strip around 11.45am
Horrific videos and pictures shows what appears to be one of the showgirls in a pool of blood outside the resort.
LaRochelle told the media: ‘As you can imagine we have scores of witnesses to continue to get statements from and we have a number of video surveillance we have to get through in the immediate future.’
Describing a short video showed at the press conference, LaRochelle said that the suspect stabbed the showgirls and then headed south and stabbed additional victim.
He was pursued by witnesses prior to his arrest.
Cops swooped on the Venetian resort and the crazed knifeman was arrested with blood coated all over his sleeves.
Medics were seen desperately working on her in front of horrified onlookers while other images showed a woman being whisked away on a stretcher.
At least one of the victims was transported to University Medical Center, where loved ones were seen going in in tears.
LaRochelle said in the press conference: ‘We wanted to extend our heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims and to the victims themselves.’
He added: ‘This is clearly a very tragic and hard to understand, hard to comprehend murder investigation that deeply impacts our community.’
‘A man just started stabbing and slashing.’ Maxime Wallace, a tourist from Montreal, said ‘everything happened so fast it was hard to see.’
Pierre Fandrich told 13 Action News he thought he heard showgirls laughing, but they were in fact screaming. When he saw the blood he assumed one of them had fallen from a nearby bridge.
In a separate interview with the Las Vegas Review Journal, Fandrich said through a translator: ‘There was one showgirl on the ground.’
He continued: ‘There was another showgirl on top of her, trying to help her friend. She seemed to be stabbed in the back, but she didn’t notice because she was helping the other showgirl.’
Metropolitan Police Department Deputy Chief James LaRochelle told the media that the police were called to the scene around 11:40 am local time
A victim is tended to by first responders in front of the casino where the stabbing took place
‘A man just started stabbing and slashing.’ Maxime Wallace, a tourist from Montreal, said ‘everything happened so fast it was hard to see
Cops swooped on the Venetian resort and the crazed knifeman was arrested with blood coated all over his sleeves
At least one of the victims was transported to University Medical Center, where loved ones were seen going in in tears
People embrace outside of the University Medical Center trauma department on Thursday
Earlier, pictures showed that there were ten officers outside of Wynn casino, potentially looking for a weapon
Earlier, pictures showed that there were ten officers outside of Wynn casino, potentially looking for a weapon.
The incident allegedly occurred between Wynn and the Resorts World Casino, two major tourist attractions in the city. DailyMail.com has reached out to Steve Wynn for comment on the tragedy.
Multiple casinos in the area reportedly shut down their entrances in the wake of the attack. Officials were quick to alert the public about the incident but assured the public that there was no ongoing threat.
Hotels in the area remained open but many tourists struggled to navigate the vicinity surrounding the strip due to the various closures.
(Stock photo) Among those injured in the knife attack were showgirls on the Las Vegas strip
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