PICTURED: Suspect who ‘stabbed eight people with a large kitchen knife’ on Las Vegas strip

The suspect in the fatal stabbing of two Las Vegas residents on the city’s famous strip has been named as 32-year-old Yoni Barrios.

The Clark County coroner’s office named Brent Allan Hallett, 47, and Maris Mareen Digiovanni, 30, as the two killed in the frenzied knife attack that also killed four showgirls in broad daylight.

The horror unfolded around 11:40 a.m. local time on Thursday.

The entertainers who were attacked would have been outside the Wynn tourists when the deranged knifeman launched the vicious attack.

According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Barrios acted alone and investigators believe it was an isolated incident.

This attack has sparked fears for safety among the strip’s street performers.

The suspect allegedly had a kitchen knife and told the showgirls that he was a chef who wanted to have a picture with them.

Previously, Barrios was described as a Hispanic man in his 30s. He is not a resident of Las Vegas.

When they refused, the stabbings began, a woman who said four of the injured showgirls worked for her.

A total of eight were injured, according to Captain Dori Koren of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police. The other three are in stable condition.

Barrios was arrested “very quickly,” Koren said.

Tourists are among the victims, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo later told media.

During that press conference, deputy chief of the Metropolitan Police Department James LaRochelle said the suspect began stabbing without provocation.

He said authorities are in possession of videos showing the suspect leaving the original site and running down Las Vegas Boulevard toward Sands Boulevard.

Barrios was held by Sands guards until police arrived.

After the stabbing, Geli Woods, the owner of Mystique Showgirls, told: KTNV that she always tells her employees to be wary while editing the comic and to arm themselves with pepper spray.

Woods said, “My girls walk that way all the time. We always go down. That could have been us.’

She added: “I’ve had some of my employees who don’t want a showgirl anymore, and I really don’t blame them because it’s a scary situation.”

Those sentiments were echoed somewhat by Bobi Jo Milstead, the owner of Stardust Starlets.

She said KSNV: “Honestly, I’m really shocked by all the girls. It’s scary because it can happen to anyone.’

Milstead also said, “It’s hard to deal with. I know some girls have used tasers and pepper spray on people who just assault them. They treat them as their own and they are not. Yes, they are dressed up there, but they don’t belong to the world.’

Horrible videos and photos show what appears to be one of the showgirls in a pool of blood outside the resort.

LaRochelle told the media, “You can imagine we have dozens of witnesses to get statements from and we have some video surveillance systems that we’ll have to go through in the near future.”

Describing a short video shown during the press conference, LaRochelle said the suspect stabbed the showgirls and then went south and stabbed another victim.

He was chased by witnesses prior to his arrest.

Police officers ducked into the Venetian resort and the mad knifeman was arrested with blood all over his sleeves.

Doctors were desperately working on her in front of shocked onlookers, while other footage showed a woman being taken away on a stretcher.

At least one of the victims was taken to the University Medical Center, where loved ones entered in tears.

LaRochelle said in the press conference, “We wanted to express our sincere condolences to the families of the victims and to the victims themselves.”

He added: “This is clearly a very tragic and hard-to-understand, hard-to-understand murder investigation that has deep implications for our community.”

“A man just started stabbing and cutting.” Maxime Wallace, a tourist from Montreal, said ‘everything happened so fast it was hard to see’.

Pierre Fandrich told 13 Action News that he thought he heard showgirls laughing, but they were actually screaming. Seeing the blood, he assumed one of them had fallen from a nearby bridge.

In a separate interview with the Las Vegas Review Journal, Fandrich said through a translator, “There was a showgirl on the floor.”

He continued: “There was another showgirl on top of her, trying to help her boyfriend. She seemed to have been stabbed in the back, but she didn’t notice because she was helping the other showgirl.’

Earlier, photos showed ten officers were outside Wynn casino, possibly looking for a weapon.

The incident allegedly occurred between Wynn and the Resorts World Casino, two major tourist attractions in the city. DailyMail.com has reached out to Steve Wynn for comment on the tragedy.

Multiple casinos in the area have reportedly closed their entrances in the wake of the attack. Officials were quick to warn the public of the incident but assured the public there was no ongoing threat.

Hotels in the area remained open, but many tourists struggled to navigate the area around the strip due to the various closures.