Two Dead, Six Wounded, as Showgirls Attacked Outside Wynn Casino
Two people were killed and half a dozen injured when a knife-wielding man went on a stabbing rampage close to the Wynn Casino on the Las Vegas Strip
Two people were killed and half a dozen injured when a knife-wielding man went on a stabbing rampage close to the Wynn Casino on the Las Vegas Strip...
That Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) tweet was soon updated to include another victim of the morning violence in an area frequented by tourists.
Reports of multiple stabbings came in at 11:42am on October 6th and LVMPD officers were quickly on the scene at the 3100 block of South Las Vegas Boulevard, arresting a suspect later named as 32-year-old Yonio Barrios.
Eye-witnesses reported that the suspect had first attacked two showgirls, chasing them and then stabbing them when they fell outside the Wynn casino.
Dewaun Turner, 47, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he witnessed five of the stabbings while returning home from his job at The District at Resorts World, a hotel and casino close to the crime scenes.Eyewitness describes horrorTurner said he saw two women, in red dresses and high heels, shouting and screaming for help as they fled from the suspect. He said one of the women slipped near an escalator and fell in front of the Wynn Las Vegas.
She was stabbed by Barrios, who then attacked the second woman, before running off toward the Palazzo, where Turner, who called 911, says the suspect stabbed another man, followed by two more women.
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