The man accused of a deadly stabbing on the Strip is a Guatemalan citizen who entered the United States without going through a border inspection point, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Audio released by the Metropolitan Police Department Wednesday captured the tragic moments eight people were stabbed on Las Vegas Boulevard.
Brent Hallett, 47, had been stabbed suddenly in the back. It was broad daylight, about twenty minutes before noon on a busy, sun-drenched Las Vegas Boulevard.
Showgirls stabbed in a brazen Las Vegas Strip attack on Thursday denied they were making fun of their assailant before he attacked them.
Yoni Barrios, 32, was arrested Thursday and appeared briefly in court Friday afternoon wearing orange hand restraints. He faces six counts of attempted murder and two counts of murder.
Two Las Vegans were killed and six other people were injured in a bizarre stabbing spree on the Strip on Thursday.
A house arrest escapee has been charged with the stabbing of a security officer on Las Vegas Boulevard, then repeatedly punching a police K-9 dog as he was arrested, according to police records.
Two prior court appearances for Freddy Allen, 58, were canceled after Clark County Detention Center authorities said that Allen could not be brought to court.
Freddy Allen, 58, was arrested on suspicion of murder in the 9:39 p.m. attack on a pedestrian bridge at Las Vegas Boulevard South and Tropicana Avenue.
Authorities in Illinois have apprehended a man sought in the Jan. 9 stabbings of three people on the Las Vegas Strip.
The stabbing was reported about 5 a.m. Thursday on a sidewalk near Las Vegas Boulevard and Mandalay Bay Road.
Kirklin Oates, 55, is a six-time felon from California who has been arrested five times in Las Vegas since July, police and court records show.
“The attack was unprovoked,” police said, adding the assault involved a “willful, unlawful, and malicious injury will leave a permanent disfiguring scar.”
Las Vegas police said they arrested Chris Okoronkwo, 33, of Las Vegas, at the Cosmopolitan on suspicion of attempted murder, assault, and battery with a deadly weapon.
Las Vegas police are investigating a fight that led to one man being stabbed at the Cosmopolitan early Thursday.