LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Clark County grand jury voted to indict the person accused of stabbing eight individuals on the Las Vegas Strip, killing two, on fees together with terrorism, prosecutors introduced Friday.
On Oct. 6, 2022, Yoni Barrios, 34, requested a gaggle of showgirls to take a photograph with a foot-long kitchen knife he was making an attempt to promote earlier than allegedly stabbing them, police mentioned after his arrest. Barrios then entered competency courtroom the place a choose ordered him to therapy.
Brent Hallett, 47; and Maris DiGiovanni, 30, each of Las Vegas, died within the assault. Six others had been injured.
Barrios had arrived from Las Vegas from California earlier that week, police mentioned. Barrios instructed police he was making an attempt to promote his knives so he might return house.
LVMPD investigates the stabbing on Las Vegas Boulevard on Oct. 6, 2022. (KLAS)
The grand jury indicted Barrios on fees together with committing an act of terrorism and two counts of homicide. Throughout Friday’s listening to, Clark County Chief Deputy District Lawyer John Giordani mentioned Barrios stabbed his victims “indiscriminately.”
Earlier this week, Barrios returned to the Clark County Detention Heart after a two-year keep in a state hospital to regain competency. On Wednesday, Clark County District Court docket Choose Christy Craig decided Barrios was competent to face trial based mostly on docs’ evaluations, paperwork mentioned.
In response to the arrest report, Barrios went to the Wynn on line casino to ask about job alternatives as a janitor. He instructed police he even requested the janitor to contact U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, so he might return to Guatemala.
Barrios then left the Wynn and approached a gaggle of showgirls close to the principle entrance to the on line casino on Las Vegas Boulevard.
FILE – Yoni Barrios seems in courtroom on the Regional Justice Heart, on Oct. 11, 2022, in Las Vegas. A choose has accepted a competency analysis for Barrios who’s accused of killing two individuals and wounding six in a stabbing rampage on the Las Vegas Strip. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Assessment-Journal through AP, File)
Barrios instructed the group of showgirls he was a chef. One of many showgirls instructed the police that Barrios requested to take an image with the group together with his knife. He thought the ladies had been laughing at him and making enjoyable of his clothes and he mentioned it made him indignant and he “stabbed one of the women in the chest,” the report acknowledged.
After the stabbing involving the group, Barrios ran off, stabbing six others, together with Hallett, as he ran alongside the sidewalk from Las Vegas Boulevard to Sands Avenue the place he threw the bloody knife in some bushes, police mentioned.
The indictment means Barrios’ case will robotically transfer to district courtroom. He was because of seem in courtroom for his arraignment on the grand jury fees on Dec. 30.
