Who is Yoni Barrios ? Suspect in Las Vegas strip mass stabbing is illegal immigrant who wanted 'to let anger out'
Update: Two days after the brutal stabbing spree on Las Vegas Boulevard, more details about the suspect Yoni Barrios have come to light. It has been reported that Barrios is an illegal immigrant with a criminal record. According to a police arrest report released on October 7, Friday, Barrios told the detectives that he is a Guatemalan immigrant and that he went on a stabbing spree so he could 'let the anger out.'
As per Bill Melugin of Fox News, Barrios was in the US illegally and even had a criminal record in California for unknown offenses. The ICE was unaware of his presence prior to the crime, he added. A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department arrest report cited by Channel 8 News said Barrios came from California to Vegas two days earlier hoping to stay with a friend, who failed to back him up with the home situation. Barrios then took a bus to the strip, where other passengers made fun of him and he felt he ‘wasn’t treated like a human being.’