Less than an hour after the first strike team entered Stephen Paddock’s suite at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas police officers far from the scene were already sharing cellphone photos of the dead gunman.
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Among the thousands of Californians facing tragedy again Friday were survivors of both the shooting at Borderline Bar and Grille and the Route 91 Harvest country music festival attack in Las Vegas. They included Brendan Kelly and Molly Maurer.
The longtime poet’s voice soared and dove as he performed his piece. The poet, a golden badge and a pair of captain’s bars pinned to his tan uniform, spoke of good and evil, of hatred and terror.
A newly released body camera video shows hundreds of survivors breaking into applause as Las Vegas police enter the Tropicana Las Vegas after the mass shooting on the Strip.
Las Vegas police released body camera footage Wednesday that for the first time takes viewers inside a Mandalay Bay security control room shortly after the Route 91 Harvest festival attack.
The unthinkable has already happened. Las Vegas police are working to prevent it from happening again.
The Mandalay Bay digital sign went dark for about four minutes around 10 p.m. on October 1, 2018 and came back to display “#VegasStronger” for at least 30 minutes. Some Las Vegas shooting survivors expected more, however.
Las Vegas came together on Oct. 1 to mark the anniversary of a mass shooting that took 58 lives one year ago.
Officials with the city of Las Vegas read the names of the 58 concertgoers killed in the Route 91 Harvest festival attack last year.
City officials are dedicating a new remembrance wall at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden, 1015 S. Casino Center Blvd.
The steps of Las Vegas City Hall became a makeshift church Monday morning as more than 200 people gathered for a prayer vigil dedicated to the men and women killed by the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting a year ago.
In a recent interview, Coroner John Fudenberg talked about calling his staff on Oct. 1. “They know what responding to this means,” he said. “It’s going to be months and months of work. It’s going to change our office and our lives forever.”
Las Vegas police pat down people and scream orders at others in the latest batch of body camera footage released Wednesday from the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting.
Las Vegas police on Wednesday released another batch of records from the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting.
Newly released body camera footage from the Oct. 1 shooting shows the tense moment as two officers crept into a Mandalay Bay hallway to strap explosives to the gunman’s hotel room.