
Widow of Alberta man fatally stabbed in Las Vegas rampage haunted by unprovoked attack
CBC
The wife of a 47-year-old Alberta man fatally stabbed on a sidewalk along the Las Vegas Strip says her life was shattered during the daytime attack.
Brent Hallett, from Ponoka, Alta., was vacationing with his wife, Carmelita, when he was killed during a stabbing rampage on Oct. 6.
A 32-year-old man has been charged in the unprovoked attack that left two people dead and six injured.
The Halletts had married in Las Vegas in 1999 at the Little White Wedding Chapel. They had returned to the city dozens of times since their elopement.
After 28 years together, it sometimes felt like they were the same person, Carmelita Hallett said in an interview with CBC News.
"We were together so long that half of my brain is Brent and the other half is Carmelita. I can't separate us, we are the same," she said.
"We were together for most of our life."
Hallett said the isolation of the pandemic had inspired the couple to cherish their time together and travel the world as much as possible.
They had been travelling internationally and were enjoying a few sunny weeks in Las Vegas before coming home to Alberta.
Hallett said she and her husband had visited the Nevada resort city dozens of times over the years but she will never return.
She said the happy memories she and her husband made there are now tainted.
"I want to get rid of all the pictures from there, but then that would be half of our memories. I'm never setting foot in that place again," she said.
The accused in the stabbing rampage has been charged with two counts of murder with the use of a deadly weapon and six counts of attempted murder.
He remains in custody. CBC News is not naming the accused.

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