Several events are scheduled for Sunday, which marks the sixth anniversary of the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting.
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An anonymous donor has given $62,500 to ensure that all of Stephen Paddock’s weapons are destroyed, according to the attorney for the special administrator of the gunman’s estate.
After nearly 16 months, the agency said it could not determine why gunman Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and injured hundreds of others in October 2017.
On Saturday, Centennial Hills Park in the northwest Las Vegas Valley held the largest Route 91 Harvest festival shooting reunion for survivors, first responders and families of the 58 people killed and hundreds more injured Oct. 1, 2017, on the Strip.
Las Vegas police released records on Wednesday that clearly captured the sound of a SWAT officer accidentally firing his rifle inside the Route 91 Harvest festival gunman’s Mandalay Bay suite on Oct. 1.
Local officials had only praise for the police response after viewing footage this week that showed two officers holding their position in a hallway one floor beneath the Oct. 1 gunman for nearly five minutes as he fired into the Route 91 Harvest festival.
P.J. DeMasseo, a survivor of the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shooting, is one of 12 people who received checks this week from the Vegas Strong Fund. He also could be one of the last.
An initial autopsy examination could take a minimum of two weeks, Dr. Hannes Vogel of Stanford University said.
The Las Vegas Victims’ Fund is now a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, making all donations to the fund tax deductible.
Laura Shipp’s Dodger fandom was a theme at the 50-year-old single mother’s celebration of life Sunday at Westlake Village Inn. The reception room filled with around 300 family members and friends, most dressed in Dodger blue, to remember the Las Vegas woman who was one of the 58 killed Oct. 1 at the Route 91 Harvest festival.
