Greg Zanis was the Illinois carpenter who built and erected the 58 simple white crosses in the shadow of the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign that turned into a focal point for a city’s grief after the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting in 2017. He died on Monday, May 4, 2020. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
RJ columnist John Katsiometes takes a walking tour of the south end of the Las Vegas Strip. (John Katsiometes and Kevin Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Tree of Life Lighting in Remembrance of Kim Gervais
People are gathering at the Las Vegas Healing Garden for the new Remembrance Wall dedication. Words from Mayor Carolyn Goodman, Jay Pleggenkuhle, Councilman Bob Coffin, and city attorney Brad Jerbic.
Hundreds gathered for a music and prayer on the front steps of Las Vegas City Hall to remember victims of the October 1 shooting.
Wyatt Matheson is often referred to as the “Vegas Strong Baby” after his mother, Markie Coffer, attended the 2017 Route 91 Country Music Festival with his father, Travis Matheson, while nine-months pregnant. The couple was able to safely escape the shooting to a hospital where Wyatt was born two days later. This upcoming week Wyatt will turn one. (Caroline Brehman/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Route 91 survivors are reuniting today at Centennial Hills Park ahead of the one-year anniversary of the attack.
On October 1, 2017, Las Vegas police officer Casey Clarkson working overtime at the Route 91 festival when a gunman opened fire. Clarkson was shot in the neck.
Officers responding to the scene at Mandalay Bay comment on difficult communications on the night of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer cycles through radio channels searching for information as he awaits ambulance traffic just outside University Medical Center on the night of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Strip.
Body cam video from Oct. 1 shows a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer using his radio to summon medical aid for shooting victims near the Route 91 Harvest country music festival.
An officer who left Route 91 goes to get equipment from his police car. He gets his rifle and runs back to the site, giving warning to everyone he encounters to take cover.
The initial police response to emergency calls at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival. This video has no audio.
Six survivors share their lives after surviving Oct 1. Their relationships with each other have given them the tools to slowly overcome the trauma. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Survivors and the community met on the eve of the six month anniversary of the Route 91 shooting Sunday night. After having a moment of silence for the 58 killed, they circled the perimeter of the festival venue. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae
Chris Davis and Debbie Davis, parents of Neysa Tonks, who was killed in the Oct. 1 shooting, talk about community support following the shooting. “We’ve had so many people reach out … It’s amazing, we’re all still just good human beings, I like to think that people are good,” said Debbie. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
On Thursday forensic accountant Larry Bertsch was appointed special administrator of the estate of Stephen Paddock. All of Paddock’s estate will be disseminated to Route 91 Harvest festival victims.
Las Vegas Strip Bus Drivers Share Their Experiences From The Oct. 1 Shooting
A judge on Friday ordered the Las Vegas Review-Journal and other media outlets to destroy a copy of the autopsy report of an Oct. 1 mass shooting victim, siding with the privacy concerns of the victim’s widow. The report was one of 58 that a different judge ordered the Clark County coroner’s office to release last week to the newspaper in the wake of another lawsuit, which argued that the autopsies of the Las Vegas mass shooting victims should be public. That judge also ordered the coroner’s office to release gunman Stephen Paddock’s autopsy, which has not been handed over. Friday’s ruling pertained only to the autopsy report for Charleston Hartfield, a Las Vegas police officer who was killed during the mass shooting. He was the husband of the plaintiff, Veronica Hartfield. The ruling by District Judge Richard Scotti also barred the newspaper from further reporting on Hartfield’s autopsy details. Review-Journal Editor in Chief Keith Moyer said the company would file an emergency appeal of Scotti’s decision to the Nevada Supreme Court. “These reports are important public records. Previous rulings have held that these records must be accessible to the public,” Moyer said. Scotti’s decision came after more than two hours of arguments, during which attorney Anthony Sgro argued that the widow’s privacy concerns far outweighed the public’s need to know. He also said the Review-Journal only sought the records in the first place “to sell newspapers.” The newspaper’s attorney, Maggie McLetchie, said Sgro’s comments were “strange criticism.” She argued that despite the anguish Hartfield’s widow and other victims’ families have experienced in the wake of the Oct. 1 massacre, the First Amendment still applied. After the judge’s ruling, McLetchie reiterated that the autopsy reports were partially redacted, and that the Review-Journal has no way of knowing which report was Hartfield’s. Scotti said the newspaper can either hand over all 58 autopsy reports to the coroner’s office and receive 57 back, or allow the office’s staff to come to the newsroom and select the document to destroy. “That’s a preposterous demand of a free press,” Moyer said. “This isn’t North Korea. Government officials cannot enter a newsroom and forcibly remove public records, even under a so-called court order.” Contrary to the assertion that the Review-Journal is seeking the information exclusively to sell newspapers, the editor in chief said, the Review-Journal is investigating the police and medical response to the mass shooting. “Autopsy reports are essential to uncovering potential shortcomings in the response and the Oct. 1 investigation, holding institutions accountable for those failures and ensuring authorities can take steps to make sure they aren’t repeated during future tragedies,” Moyer said. “Autopsy reports also help the public evaluate the competency of the coroner’s office, which is certainly in question.”
Douglas Haig, the man who was identified this week as a “person of interest” in the Las Vegas shooting investigation, said Friday that he does not believe the tracer ammunition he sold to gunman Stephen Paddock was used in the mass shooting. (Ross Leviton/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
On October 1, 2017, over 22,000 people came together to enjoy a country music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. On the final night of the festival, a lone gunman opened fire into the crowd from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. The LVMPD Preliminary Investigative Report reveals more information about the timeline of the shooting and Stephen Paddock.
Lombardo: “We do not anticipate charges against Marilou Danley”
Crime scene photos contained in the preliminary report on the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting in Las Vegas show the hotel room used by gunman Stephen Paddock at Mandalay Bay on the Strip.
Review-Journal reporters Elaine Wilson, Nicole Raz and Jessie Bekker provide an update on a victim, Katrina Hannah and on the funds that have been distributed to 12 victims from the strip shooting.
Metro acquired five drones from Yuneec in late September. Since then, the department has used them mainly for crime scene documentation. Read more at reviewjournal.com. (Nicole Raz/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Review-Journal reporters Elaine Wilson, Brian Joseph and Briana Erickson sit down to discuss the latest news on the Las Vegas mass shooting.
Forbes Riley recalls the night of October 1 when she was having dinner in the Foundation Room at Mandalay Bay. Riley started filming as the shooting occurred on the concert grounds below. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
New video of the Las Vegas Mass Shooting from Forbes Riley on Facebook.
The Oakland Raiders reached out to first responders from the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas, flew about 30 of them to the game against the Chargers, gave them VIP field access and seats, and had owner Mark Davis meet with them.