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.
Las Vegas Shooting
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.