Pierre Fandrich, a tourist from Canada, told KTNV that he did not see the stabbing suspect as he was walking along the Strip. “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. Jason Adams told KLAS that he witnessed the attack on a showgirl. 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.
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Witnesses told Las Vegas TV stations that some of the victims appeared to be showgirls or street performers who take pictures with tourists on the Strip. “Locals and tourists are the victims of this crime,” Lombardo said. There were no other suspects in the case and “the Strip is secure,” Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo 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.” The man fled and was followed by 911 callers before he was taken into custody, authorities said. The suspect then headed south and stabbed others, LaRochelle said.
The initial stabbing was unprovoked and on the eastern sidewalk of Las Vegas Boulevard. The names of those wounded in the attack were not immediately released. The Clark County coroner’s office identified the victims who were killed as Brent Allan Hallett, 47, and Maris Mareen Digiovanni, 30, both Las Vegas residents, the Review-Journal reported.
Police said they were continuing to investigate the motive but do not believe there was an altercation before the attacks. “All evidence indicates Barrios acted alone and there are no outstanding suspects at this time.” “This was an isolated incident,” Metro Police Deputy Chief James LaRochelle said in a statement.
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