Telemachus Orfanos, a survivor of the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting, was one of the 12 killed Wednesday night when a gunman opened fire at a country bar in California.
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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.
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.
The marquees lining the Las Vegas Strip went dark Monday night to mark the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 1 shooting at a country music festival.
“We’re still recovering from the events that took place on 1 October,” Nevada’s junior senator says. “We’re still grieving for the family members who are no longer with us.”
More than 10 months after the mass shooting on the Strip, Las Vegas police on Wednesday released another batch of records from the Oct. 1 tragedy.
Las Vegas police turned over 16 more body camera videos Wednesday from the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting. It marked the 14th court-ordered release since early May of Metropolitan Police Department audio, video or documents from the attack.
Those closest to Stephen Paddock described him as meticulous, calculating and sometimes cold, but none of them expected violence from the man, according to a new report.
“We have not been able to definitively answer the ‘why,’” then-Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said August 3, 2018, at a news briefing to discuss the department’s final report on the Oct. 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
Newly released Oct. 1 body camera footage captured harrowing scenes from deep within the Route 91 Harvest festival grounds, including the moment a handful of officers realized a mass shooting was unfolding.
Supporters hope the Clark County Board of Trustees will approve naming a new elementary school opening in fall 2019 after Charleston Hartfield, a Metro officer killed while off-duty at the Route 91 country music festival shooting.
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.
Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos shows his leg wound to the first officers arriving on the 32nd floor in the latest body camera footage released by Las Vegas police from the Oct. 1 attack.
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