The suspect was identified by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department as 32-year-old Yoni Barrios.
Yoni Barrios
Witnesses spoke to FOX 11 about what they saw and heard moments after the stabbing spree, including a family who is visiting Las Vegas from L County. "[After the stabbing happened], we heard people talking about somebody getting stabbed and two people dead and six stabbed. My wife actually wanted to go back to the room. We are coming from LA, and shee's like let's just head back to the room because it's so unsafe here," said Cesar."We woke up to a lot of sirens outside. He [Rutherford's boyfriend] saw them putting a white cloth over a couple of bodies so we knew that it was a fatality.
Barrios has been booked on two counts of murder with a deadly weapon and six counts of attempted murder with a deadly weapon.
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