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.
Shootings
A long-term resource center for Las Vegas shooting victims and families, the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center, opens Monday morning.
Coaches, Basic High School basketball players, close friends, and family came together at a Henderson hillside site to paint a “Q” in Route 91 Harvest festival shooting victim Quinton Robbins’ honor near the familiar “B” for Basic.
Las Vegas police officer Charleston Hartfield will be laid to rest today.
A resolution memorializing victims of the Las Vegas shooting and the bravery of first responders at the Route 91 Harvest festival passed unanimously in the Senate Tuesday.
Legions of people lined up Sunday night under the flashing neon lights of Las Vegas Boulevard, coming together for a walk paying tribute to the victims of the Oct. 1 mass shooting — 336 hours had ticked past since tragedy struck the Strip.
Volunteers from Las Vegas and Hawaii brought portions of a 2-mile-long lei at the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign and two other locations Saturday to honor victims of the Route 91 Harvest festival shootings.
They road-tripped from Southern California, or jetted from as far as Massachusetts or Canada, bound to see their favorite country musicians play on the Las Vegas Strip.
Carrie Barnette, 34, of Riverside, California, was one of 58 people fatally wounded Oct. 1 when gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire on the country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip.
Some lights went out but Las Vegas stayed bright as properties on the Strip and around the valley turned their digital marquees off Sunday night in remembrance of the victims of last week’s massacre.
A Chicago-area man who goes around the country in his pickup truck leaving handmade wooden crosses at murder scenes was inspired by a personal tragedy 20 years ago.
As sunlight faded on Police Memorial Park and a full moon rose over the valley, thousands raised candles for Las Vegas police officer Charleston Hartfield, who was killed in the mass shooting on the Strip.
Las Vegas city employee Cameron Robinson could tell if someone needed to smile, so he’d walk by and make a face to draw out a grin.
As Tuesday went from daylight to dusk, officials and pastors spoke and prayed for healing for valley residents at a vigil held in lieu of a previously scheduled National Night Out event.
People are paying tribute at makeshift memorials following a mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.