An attacker with a large kitchen knife killed two people and wounded six others in stabbings along the Las Vegas Strip before he was arrested, police said.
This photo provided by the Las Vegas Police Dept. shows Yoni Barrios. Police say Barrios killed two people and wounded six others in stabbings along the Las Vegas Strip. He was booked on two counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder late Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. – An attacker with a large kitchen knife killed two people and wounded six others in stabbings along the Las Vegas Strip before he was arrested Thursday, police said.
“This was an isolated incident,” Metropolitan Police Deputy Chief James LaRochelle said in a statement. “All evidence indicates Barrios acted alone and there are no outstanding suspects at this time.” The man fled and was followed by 911 callers before he was taken into custody, authorities said. Police recovered the “large knife with a long blade” believed to have been used, LaRochelle said, calling the case a “hard-to-comprehend murder investigation.”that he was walking home when he saw two people dressed as showgirls in red dresses and heels fleeing from a man with a knife. He saw one slip near an escalator to a pedestrian bridge in front of Wynn Las Vegas.
The suspect told a woman that he was a chef who wanted to take a picture with some of the showgirls with his knife, but he started stabbing people when the group declined the man’s offer, the woman told KTNV.“This guy came, ran up, and started stabbing this lady in front of me and she ran around the escalators and she tried to get up under the bridge and her girlfriend was trying to help her,” Adams said, adding that the attack happened very quickly.
Fandrich also told KTNV that he thought one of the victims fell from the bridge because there was so much blood on the ground.
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