Seeking closure, 38-year-old California resident James Marrs was returning to Las Vegas for the first time since the Oct. 1 country music festival shooting. Marrs had been driving for about two hours when the news alert flashed on his phone screen: “Deadly shooting at Texas church.”
Sunday’s “Vegas Cares” show closed with the Las Vegas band Elvis Monroe playing the new song, “We Fight.”
WASHINGTON – A Las Vegas Strip shooting victim’s recovery continues with marked improvement, according to a family update that reports the “roller coaster ride is not twisting or turning upside down this week!”
The Peccole Ranch Community Association in the west valley dedicated a bench Saturday in honor of the local victims killed in the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the Strip.
The group of 24 active-duty service members undertook their charity trek in honor of the 58 people killed Oct. 1 at the Route 91 Harvest festival on the Strip.
As dismissive and humble as he is, David Becker’s photos were some of the first pieces of evidence that pointed to the terror so many experienced Oct. 1. In the days after it happened, they ran on more than 130 front pages around the world.
Antonio McLandau wasn’t even on the job for a full two months when his public bus was transformed into an oversize ambulance the night of the Oct. 1 shooting.
Following the Las Vegas shooting, Las Vegas hotels provided at least 1,875 cumulative room nights to families of victims. A couple of airlines also provided free flights to at least 260 victims’ family members.
Even before the mass shooting on the south Strip last month, the neighborhood wasn’t exactly buzzing with activity.
Gunman Stephen Paddock lost a large amount of wealth in the two years before the Oct. 1 shooting on the Strip, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said in an interview with a local television station.
The words “Vegas Strong” are possibly the most meaningful on the arm sling worn by Karessa Royce, a survivor of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Route 91 Harvest festival on the Strip.
Cars and trucks entered the site of the Las Vegas shooting Thursday to begin removing left behind equipment and merchandise.
If the Las Vegas Victims Fund were to match the same proportion of payments paid out to the 299 victims and their families in Orlando, Florida, following the shooting at Pulse nightclub in 2016, then the fund would need at least $560 million.
The celebration of life for Adrian Murfitt, an Anchorage man who was one of the 58 people killed during the Las Vegas shooting, had everything Murfitt would’ve wanted.
The Oct. 1 attack on the Route 91 Harvest festival left 59 people dead, including the gunman, and wounded an additional 546. It also sent thousands of terrified concertgoers — some hurt or covered in other people’s blood — fleeing in all directions, triggering phantom reports of additional shootings at other locations.
