Thursday, July 23, 2026

Prosecutors search dying penalty in Strip mass stabbing

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Man indicted on terror, homicide expenses

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 stated after his arrest. Video exhibits 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 indicate a dying evaluate committee accepted a possible dying sentence ought to a jury convict him.

Paperwork stated Barrios advised police he was making an attempt to promote his knives so he might return residence. Based on the arrest report, Barrios went to the Wynn on line casino to ask about job alternatives as a janitor. He advised 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 seem in courtroom for his arraignment on the grand jury expenses on Thursday. Throughout that courtroom listening to, prosecutors had 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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