Four people were reportedly stabbed in an "unprovoked and surprise attack" in The Last Frontier Casino at La Center, Washington on Monday night. The attacker led the cops on a car chase before he was arrested.

On inspecting the surveillance footage gathered from the scene, police said the suspect, identified as 41-year-old Scott R. Harmier, was sitting at a poker table and playing a hand right before the gruesome attack.

Harmier abruptly stood up at the table and appeared to stab the man sitting next to him five times in the head and chest, NBC affiliate KGW reported.

Another woman sitting at the same poker table was also attacked and sustained three stab wounds. The third victim was chased into the casino's parking lot and stabbed twice before the suspect reportedly fled the scene in a car. It is unclear how the fourth victim was injured.

Police later tracked the suspect's vehicle, which was reportedly heading south on Interstate 205. He was intercepted and arrested east of the intersection with 137th Avenue.

Cops confirmed that all four victims were rushed to the hospital, and three of them were scheduled to be discharged Tuesday morning. One victim was kept under observation at the hospital and is expected to survive. The identities of the victims were not revealed.

Hours after the incident, The Last Frontier Casino management posted an update on Facebook. "It is with great sadness that we share that on 12/12/2022, an unprovoked and surprise attack occurred at our casino involving our customers," the note read.

"The suspect in question is in custody with the Clark County Sheriff's Department and the Sheriff's Department is undertaking an active investigation into the matter," it added.

Chris Skidmore, who works with the Clark County Sheriff's Office, told KGW that the victims found it to be "a pretty kind of rapidly unfolding scene, where they had multiple people out bleeding and the suspect had apparently left."

"It looks like all the victims are going to survive and you know, not have kind of some time long-term deficit or anything related to that," Skidmore added.

Police described Harmier as a bald and heavy-set man who fled in a white Nissan sedan. He was been booked in the Clark County Jail on four counts of first-degree assault for the stabbing incident.

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