“I hit the step just right, and it broke my leg,” Las Vegas police officer Samuel Wittwer said in a recent interview about the night of Oct. 1, 2017.
A two-month investigation by the Review-Journal found Las Vegas police faced overloaded radios and other communication problems during their response to the Oct. 1 shooting.
In four separate Las Vegas police videos from the night of the Oct.1 shooting, officers are instructed to turn their body cameras off.
The videos ranged in length from a few seconds to more than two hours and provided the most detailed look yet inside the concert venue during the Oct. 1 shooting.
In the months leading up to the Oct. 1 shooting, Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock methodically planned a massacre, carefully sidestepping detection from authorities. But even in death, he continued to perplex, according to federal search warrant records a judge ordered unsealed Friday.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Saturday that he expects to have a news conference “probably in a week” to discuss the state of the investigation into the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the Strip.
Lawyers for a California woman who was shot and critically wounded during the Route 91 Harvest music festival filed a lawsuit Friday against MGM Resorts International, the concert host and a bump stock maker.
Many of those injured in the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip were from outside Nevada and now face recuperation in local hospitals with local doctors.
They road-tripped from Southern California, or jetted from as far as Massachusetts or Canada, bound to see their favorite country musicians play on the Las Vegas Strip.
A sometimes combative and at times emotional Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo on Friday announced a second significant adjustment to the Metropolitan Police Department’s timeline of events surrounding the Oct. 1 Strip attack.
Every mass-casualty event attracts its share of crackpots, and the Oct. 1 attack in Las Vegas is no different. But the flow of “fake news” about the shooting exceeds anything Sheriff Joe Lombardo has seen in other high-profile cases.
“She was my one and only true love,” Albert Alvarado said of his wife, Heather Alvarado, who was killed in the Oct. 1 shooting. “She was loving and giving. There was never a time when she didn’t want to help somebody. She always saw the good in everyone — she was perfect.”