Best Showgirls of Vegas owner slams legal system that saw Yoni Barrios walk on domestic violence charge

Best Showgirls of Vegas owner slams legal system that saw Yoni Barrios walk on domestic violence charge
Cheryl Lawthorp (L) has started a fundraiser for her slain employee Maris Digiovanni who was killed by Yoni Barrios (inset) in Las Vegas mass stabbing (Cheryl Lowthrop/Facebook and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Vegas' Best Showgirls owner blasted the "flawed" criminal justice system for letting Illegal immigrant Yoni Barrios go free who murdered one of her performers in a horrifying attack on the Las Vegas Strip on Thursday, October 6. Cheryl Lowthrop expressed her shock upon learning that Maris Mareen Digiovanni, her 30-year-old employee, was one of the two victims of the stabbing on Thursday. Eight people in total, including several showgirls, were attacked. 

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The 32-year-old illegal immigrant killed Digiovanni,30, and Brent Allan Hallett, 47 as he ran down the well-known street in broad daylight while brandishing a knife. Barrios is an alleged undocumented migrant from Guatamala who attacked Digiovanni and three other coworkers as they were strolling down the Las Vegas Strip. He then attacked other people at random and told the authorities he had to "let the anger out."