Construction estimator Thomas Day Jr. is among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Day Jr. was attending the festival Sunday with his father and four daughters when he was fatally shot, said Bruce Abbey, vice president of Portrait Construction. “He would always stand up for you,” Abbey said. “He’ll be missed.”
Pennsylvania youth sports coach Bill Wolfe Jr. is among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, authorities in his hometown confirmed Tuesday. Wolfe, a youth sports coach and 42-year-old father of two, was celebrating his 20th anniversary with his wife, Robyn, when the shooting happened. Wolfe was a Little League coach and coached the Shippensburg youth wrestling program for children in kindergarten through sixth grade, said Tony Yaniello, head coach of Shippensburg High School’s varsity wrestling team. “Some people simply live in the community, Bill lived for his community,” Yaniello told the Review-Journal.
Michelle Vo, killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, was remembered Tuesday in the U.S. House of Representatives. The 32-year-old Eagle Rock, California, woman was “an ambitious hard worker, known for her charisma and fierce independence,” according to the statement read on the House floor by Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif. A native of San Jose, California, Vo moved south after college to work in financial services for the Pasadena branch of New York Life Insurance Co. She was also a member of the LAX Coastal Chamber of Commerce.
Derrick “Bo” Taylor, a California correctional lieutenant who led inmates fighting wildfires, is among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest county music festival. Taylor, was a 29-year veteran of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and celebrated his 52nd birthday on Sept. 25, confirmed department spokesman Bill Sessa. “The relationships between the officers and the inmate firefighters is much more personal,” Sessa said Taylor headed up the Ventura Conservation Camp in Camarillo. Taylor led a staff of nine, a group responsible for more than 100 inmates in coordination with Cal Fire, the state’s firefighting arm.
Adrian Murfitt, 35, is among the 59 people killed by the gunman who rained bullets onto Route 91 Harvest festival country music concert goers Sunday night. His sister, Shannon Gothard, said her brother died in his friend’s arms. A commercial fisherman, Murfitt ended his months-long fishing season in August and returned home to Anchorage, Alaska, ready for a vacation. “He had a really successful season this year and decided to go to Vegas to the concert to celebrate and treat himself,” Gothard said. Murfitt worked his first season as a commercial fisherman in high scHomhool when a teacher offered to bring him along. Gothard said she was amazed by how slim, muscular and tan the months on the boat made him.
Southern California native Melissa Ramirez is among the victims killed in Sunday’s shooting at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, her alma mater confirmed on Tuesday. Ramirez graduated from California State University, Bakersfield, in 2014, with a degree in business administration. According to Ramirez’s Facebook page, which had been turned into a remembrance page, she was from Littlerock, California, and lived in North Hollywood.
Brian Fraser, who lived in Pomona, California, was among those killed Sunday night in the mass shooting attack at the Route 91 Harvest county music festival. Fraser worked at Greenpath, a lending partner for Southern California real estate agents. Fraser was also a coach with The Duncan Group, a mortgage sales training and consulting company. Willy Escobar knew Brian Fraser for about a year. “He was a very, very giving guy. He always spoke about his family, and always had time to help out. He was just a very selfless kind of person,” Escobar told the Review-Journal Tuesday.
Christiana Duarte, a recent University of Arizona graduate is among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, a family friend said Tuesday. Duarte, 22, was about to start a marketing job with the Los Angeles Kings hockey team “She’s such a value to this world, and this is just a tremendous loss. The things she could have accomplished,” Danette Meyers said. Duarte was the daughter of L.A. County Deputy District Attorney Michael Duarte and sister of Chicago White Sox minor league baseball player Mikey Duarte.
Steve Berger was in Las Vegas celebrating his 44th birthday, which was Saturday, when he was killed in the attack at the Route 91 Harvest music festival Sunday. Steve Berger was betting on the Wisconsin-Northwestern football game the last time his father, Richard, spoke with him. The Wisconsin native had always been a Badgers fan. “I said ‘Steve, be careful,’” Richard Berger said Tuesday. “That’s the last time I ever talked to him.” “He was so devoted to his family and his children,” Berger said. Steve Berger loved to work, his father said, but was an avid fisherman.
Dorene Anderson traveled to the Route 91 Harvest country music festival from Anchorage, Alaska. The 49-year-old was one of the concertgoers who was killed in the shooting Sunday night. In a Facebook posting, the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation — for which Anderson’s husband, John, works as research and rural development director — shared a message from her family “Due to this horrific and terrible situation, our family is dealing with a great loss. She (Dorene) was the most amazing wife, mother and person this world ever had. “
Heather Warino Alvarado, a 35-year-old mother of three, is among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Alvarado lived in Cedar City, Utah and came to Las Vegas to attend the three-day festival with family. Her husband, firefighter Albert Alvarado, released a statement through the Cedar City Police Department said that the couple loved traveling with her children “She always saw the good in others,” the statement read. “She spent her whole life serving others in her family and community”
UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez praises Las Vegas’ response to Sunday’s mass shooting during a press conference on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017. (Mark Anderson/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Bryan Salmond and Michael Gehlken discuss the Raiders and their preparation for the upcoming game with EJ Manuel in as their starting quarterback.
Las Vegas police release multiple bodycam videos from Sunday’s Strip shooting. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
A brief explanation of the timeline of the Las Vegas Mass Shooting at the Route 91 Country Music Festival.
Vegas Golden Knights players Deryk Engelland, Nate Schmidt discuss Sunday’s Las Vegas mass shooting after practice on October 3, 2017. (Ron Kantowski/Las Vegas Review Journal)
6 p.m. press conference about the deadly shooting that occurred on the Las Vegas Strip at the Route 91 Country Music Festival.
Brennan Stewart, one of the victims in the Sunday, Oct. 1, shootings at the Route 91 Harvest festival at Mandalay Bay, sings “You Should Be Here” in a video distributed by his family.
Ben Gotz talks to Mojave coach and players following the Rattlers overtime win over Sunrise Mountain.
Golden Knights forward Erik Haula talks about being on the Strip during Sunday’s mass shooting following practice Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, at City National Arena. (David Schoen/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Video taken by Cori Langdon at Mandalay Bay while driving away from the shooting and picking up passengers.
Video taken by Cori Langdon at Mandalay Bay when the shooting began at the Route 91 Country Music Festival.
Officers salute fallen Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Officer Charleston Hartfield, 34, killed while off-duty during the Route 91 festival and Mandalay Bay shooting incident.
R&R Partners has been the communications agency for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority for more than 35 years The first “What happens here, stays here” ad ran in 2003. (Nicole Raz/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Jon Merrill discusses what it means to him and the team to offer help to the community following the mass shooting that took place on Sunday.
Golden Knights players were in the community Tuesday to help with healing process following the Las Vegas shooting that occurred on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. (Steve Carp/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A police dispatch call saying that one suspect is down on the 32nd floor on the Mandalay Bay in room 135.
Jordan McIldoon of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, was five days shy of his 24th birthday when he was killed in the attack at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. His parents Alan and Angela McIldoon, described Jordan as a “compassionate young man” who lived a life “full of adventures” in a statement released to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. McIldoon also loved country music, and he was rarely seen without his cowboy boots, the statement read. He was also a month shy of finishing his heavy-duty mechanic apprenticeship.
Carrie Barnette, a Disneyland Resort employee is among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Barnette, 34, was a member of the culinary team at Disney California Adventure in Anaheim for 10 years “We are especially heartbroken over the loss of one of our own to this unconscionable and senseless act,” Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger wrote in a statement.
Jordyn Rivera, 21, of La Verne, California, is among the victims killed at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas. Rivera was a fourth-year student in the health care management program at California State University, San Bernardino. She was also a member of CSUSB’s chapter of Eta Sigma Gamma, the national health education honor society. Mike Schrader, a family friend, said, “The Rivera family is amazing, and I’m numb.”
