Students at Green Valley High School have raised roughly $60,000 for the Las Vegas Victims’ Fund by selling Vegas Strong T-shirts to schools across the Clark County School District.
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A group of 16 people will decide how to distribute raised funds to Las Vegas shooting victims, the fund committee announced Tuesday.
Nathan Adelson Hospice is providing grief counseling sessions for those affected by the Oct. 1 shooting. In addition, SilverSummit Healthplan and Envolve Health have established a 24-hour crisis hotline
In a statement Saturday, Scottsdale, Arizona-based auction company Barrett-Jackson said a 2007 Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake owned by Barrett-Jackson President Steve Davis sold for $1 million. Benicia, California-based DC Solar issued the winning bid.
Henderson resident Shannon Fleming is raising money for Las Vegas shooting victims on her website, wtfclothing.net, but she doesn’t know what to do with the money.
Danielle Kraze’s story seemed like yet another tragic tale from the Mandalay Bay mass shooting.
At A Walk to Remember at Priest Elementary School, students, teachers, parents and community members wrote cards to first responders and mass shooting survivors and painted stones and decorate leis, which will be placed at the Community Healing Garden.
They got the call within 10 minutes. Within 45 minutes, crisis-trained volunteers from the Trauma Intervention Program of Southern Nevada were ready to help the victims and families of the Oct. 1 Route 91 Harvest festival shooting.
Victims of the Las Vegas shooting will have to apply to receive money raised on their behalf and might have to wait six months for payment, a victim-compensation expert told the Review-Journal.
Fraudulent posts to crowdfunding websites are common after highly publicized tragedies such as the Mandalay Bay shooting.
Donors from all over the world have contributed more than $15 million so far for victims of the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting. But the sum is spread over several accounts yet to be consolidated. It’s not clear how much of the funds raised will go directly to the intended recipients.
Country music star Dierks Bentley visited University Medical Center on Monday, where he played an acoustic set and said he’s “at a total loss for words” over the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting.
In the eight days since concertgoers were shot at from Mandalay Bay’s 32nd floor, United Blood Services, part of a nationwide network of blood centers in 28 states, received 3,404 local donations. Fifty-one percent were from first-time donors.
Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada and the State Bar of Nevada said Tuesday they will provide pro bono legal services to victims of the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the Strip.
Over $10.6 million has raised so far to help pay for Arjune’s expenses, as well as those of the 488 others who were injured and 58 who died during the Oct. 1 shooting.