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.
Las Vegas police officer Charleston Hartfield will be laid to rest today.
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.
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.
