An online fundraiser organized to help the family of slain UNLV professor Patricia Navarro Velez had raised more than $63,000 Friday night.
Shootings
Slain UNLV professors Naoko Takemaru, Patricia Navarro Velez and Cha-Jan “Jerry” Chang were each remembered fondly by their grief-stricken colleagues.
A gunman killed three people and seriously injured a fourth at UNLV’s campus. The shooting began inside Beam Hall, which houses the Lee Business School.
More than a hundred people sat quietly inside St. Viator Catholic Community church for a community prayer honoring those affected by the shooting at UNLV.
Gerry Sanders, UNLV’s dean of the Lee Business School, says he “left the building just before the shooter arrived.”
The three people killed in the shooting at UNLV’s Lee Business School, as well as a fourth victim who was seriously injured, were professors at the university.
Several Las Vegas tourists, including those in town for the National Finals Rodeo, said the shooting at UNLV was not causing them much worry.
A veteran professor of operations management and supply is the suspect in the fatal shooting on the UNLV campus.
Students were asked to contact University Police Services to gain entrance to buildings that are not affected by the investigation.
There are multiple mental health resources available for people affected by the UNLV shooting in English and Spanish.
Three victims were shot and killed Wednesday on the UNLV campus in an attack that ended after the gunman’s death, authorities said.
The man shot by Las Vegas police after allegedly stealing a tow truck and later barricading himself inside a home has been identified.
The homeless man who was shot dead has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
The FBI is looking for information on a man suspected of shooting and killing his girlfriend and carjacking her friend.
“I mean, he just showed up and shot us,” said Robert Tully, 62.