Las Vegas Strip Slasher Victim’s Wife Recalls His Murder

Brent Hallett and his wife, Carmelita, were unitedly for 28 years and planned to be joined for often longer. During the pandemic shutdown, the Alberta, Canada residents decided that living was passing them by. So they took too soon retirement and go under out on a spark around the world.

Their net halt was the urban center where the Halletts were married in 1999 and where, on Oct. 6, Brent died at eld 47. The couple up had been enjoying Las Vegas for quaternion months, and had planned to fell support to Canada ii weeks later. As Brent repose on the Sunset Strip sidewalk, bleeding from a knife wounding in his back, he turned to Carmelita and said, “I don’t cogitate I’m sledding to make up it,” as reported by Carmelita to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Brent died of his wounds, as did Maris DiGiovanni, a 30-year-old poser and former Las Vegas schoolteacher. Six others were maimed inward the unprovoked wounding rampage that to the highest degree Americans relieve happen difficult to wrap up their heads around.

She Didn’t See it Happen

“All i call back is that we were walking, and we were holding hands, and he flinched,” Carmelita told the R-J. “And I saw a guy rope run past and i looked at (Brent) and he position his hand on his back. I thought someone just bumped him. i didn’t ensure anything happen.”

Though police feature in time to set a motive, they are confident they experience the flop suspect. Yoni Barrios, 32, was charged Tuesday with ii counts of off and six counts of attempted murder.

“Everybody says we had the topper relationship, you know?” Carmelita told the R-J. “We were topper friends. We were tolerant to from each one other. He always came world-class for me, and I e'er came first for him.”

Carmelita described her married man as a businessman, a sept man, and an animal-lover. They kept pet rabbits, and when inward Vegas, they frequented the South Point Arena to ascertain the horses at the Equestrian Center.

The Joe Clark County coroner’s power ab initio described Brent as a Las Vegas resident. That was an error, though the pair off loved Las Vegas and traveled on that point often.

“It was Brent’s favorite place,” Carmelita told the R-J.

Carmelita has created a GoFundMe page inward her husband’s store called Brent Hallett Vegas Tragedy. It  has currently raised $1,635 of its $50K goal. Carmelita has promised to donate the money raised to animate being welfare causes.

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