Just past the ninth anniversary of the Newtown, Connecticut, mass shooting, the leader of the Sandy Hook memorial project offers advice to 1 October Memorial Committee.
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The contribution from a Las Vegas law firm was announced Wednesday by the 1 October Memorial Committee during its monthly meeting.
A recent planning survey for a permanent memorial honoring the victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting elicited hundreds of emotional responses.
On the same day that the latest 1 October Memorial Committee’s survey results were released, country music star Jason Aldean announced on his Instagram that his security guard, Ryan Fleming, has died.
“I think it demonstrates as much as anything does that their heart is where it ought to be as we work on this,” Clark County Commissioner Jim Gibson said of MGM Resorts International.
A number of surveys will be conducted to help narrow the public’s priorities for a permanent memorial honoring victims and survivors of the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting.
The online survey, which included 15 questions and was distributed by the 1 October Memorial Committee, ran between March 1 and 14.
“It is so important that we come up with a memorial that we can all be proud of, one that best reflects the wishes of those affected,” said Mynda Smith, whose sister died in the mass shooting.
The survey has been described by the 1 October Memorial Committee as the first of many questionnaires that will be conducted throughout the planning process.
“Changing it to 60 may feel like an entire understanding that’s built up over the last 3 years must change as well,” according to a psychology professor.
“Now I don’t have this weird feeling of being in limbo, wondering where my family fits in all of this,” said the daughter of the 59th victim.
The official death toll of the October 2017 shooting excludes two women who died within the past year. The daughter of one victim wonders, “Why isn’t my mom good enough?”
The Las Vegas resident is the second Route 91 Harvest festival shooting survivor to die in less than a year, yet the massacre’s official death toll will remain unchanged.
A California medical examiner has ruled that the woman died from injuries she suffered in the shooting, but Las Vegas police said the official death toll isn’t changing.
A vigil will be held at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden in honor of Kimberly Gervais, who died more than two years after she was paralyzed in the mass shooting on the Strip.
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Colin Czech is accused of killing a man outside a downtown convenience store and eating parts of the victim’s face, police said.
The Las Vegas Strip casino introduced a new tier in its loyalty program, and visitors will need to reach at least that tier to receive unlimited free parking.
Harry Reid International Airport said its parking was in “high demand” this weekend, and expected Terminal 1 long term and economy parking to be at capacity.