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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Little more than a year after surviving the Route 91 Harvest festival attack, Stacie Power once again found herself defenseless, tied to another disaster. This time, she was waiting to learn whether her parents were alive or dead.
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.
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.
Joe Robbins and his wife were among 40 Las Vegas shooting survivors who were invited on a free, eight-day cruise along the Rhine River.
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.
Five panelists, including photojournalist David Becker, Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg and Deborah Kuhls, director of the University Medical Center trauma intensive care unit, shared their experiences from the night of the Oct. 1 mass shooting and how they’ve grown in the year since during a panel discussion Friday night at UNLV.
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.
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.