Worship services around the Las Vegas Valley over the weekend reflected on the Oct. 1 mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival.
Shootings
From their current hometown, the Raiders honored their future one.
Country music superstar Jason Aldean didn’t listen to UFC boss Dana White. And some hospitalized victims of last week’s mass shooting in Las Vegas are grateful.
Jack Beaton felt equally comfortable gripping a pair of barbecue tongs surrounded by friends or swinging his roofer’s hammer on a hot day at work. He died a hero shielding his wife from a gunman in the nation’s deadliest mass shooting in modern history.
The Watkins family from Aliso Viejo, California, came to Las Vegas for the Route 91 Harvest festival. They got separated, saw death, helped ferry the wounded and made it through alive.
A 40-year-old woman shot her 52-year-old brother after a domestic argument at a home in the 9700 block of Casper Peak Court, near Fort Apache and Spring Mountain roads, police said.
An enormous flag used in a pregame ceremony at the UNLV football game provided striking images Saturday as Las Vegas took time to honor first responders.
As 22,000 people were enjoying the music at the Route 91 Harvest festival, terror rained down upon them from a shooter on the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay.
Just as the Sandy Hook school shooting prompted efforts to regulate gun policies in Nevada in 2013, the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 will likely result in a new push when the Legislature convenes in 2019.
Members of Central Church in Henderson packed a Saturday evening service devoted to remembering shooting victims, praying for the injured, honoring first responders and working through grief.
Officials on Sunday are expected to announce the process for Route 91 Harvest Festival concertgoers to retrieve their abandoned property.
Stephen Paddock owned a home in Mesquite, but no one seems to remember him as a true member of the community.
The Strip’s newest arena and one of its lavishly appointed theaters will reportedly be the site where Las Vegas entertainers will coalesce to show strength and support following Oct. 1’s mass shooting on the Strip.
Thousands of tourists and local residents, carrying flowers, signs and balloons, made their way Saturday afternoon to a memorial to remember the victims of the Oct. 1 massacre.
The heartfelt outpouring of local pride that many Las Vegans have expressed this in the past week has become tangible, becoming even easier to display, thanks to a series of high-profile T-shirts designed to raise money for the victims of the Oct. 1 shootings.
