Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Prosecutors search dying penalty in Las Vegas Strip mass stabbing

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Man indicted on terror, homicide prices

On Oct. 6, 2022, Yoni Barrios, 34, requested a bunch of showgirls to take a photograph with a foot-long kitchen knife he was attempting to promote earlier than allegedly stabbing them, police mentioned after his arrest. Video reveals a person prosecutors recognized as Barrios then randomly stabbing a number of different folks earlier than safety and police subdue him.

Brent Hallett, 47; and Maris DiGiovanni, 30, each of Las Vegas, died within the assault.

Paperwork filed Wednesday suggest a dying assessment committee authorised a possible dying sentence ought to a jury convict him.

Paperwork mentioned Barrios instructed police he was attempting to promote his knives so he might return residence. In accordance with 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 in order that he might return to Guatemala.

Barrios was scheduled to look in courtroom for his arraignment on the grand jury prices on Thursday. Throughout that courtroom listening to, prosecutors have been anticipated to disclose the committee’s resolution.

Whereas Nevada has the dying penalty, the state has not put an individual to dying since 2006.

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