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In an effort to help survivors reunite, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has launched the Route 91 Harvest festival Survivors Connection. The page offers a searchable database designed to serve as a conduit to facilitate contact between those looking for people they encountered during the shooting.
Jesus Campos, the Mandalay Bay security officer shot in the leg by the Strip gunman, is no longer staying at an MGM Resorts property.
An initial autopsy examination could take a minimum of two weeks, Dr. Hannes Vogel of Stanford University said.
The Las Vegas Victims’ Fund is now a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, making all donations to the fund tax deductible.
A group of about 150 survivors of the Oct. 1 Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting delivered a recurring message Tuesday: “What about us?”
State officials are encouraging people who attended the Route 91 Harvest festival on Oct. 1 to apply for assistance from a state program for crime victims.
Wherever there is a mass casualty crime, you’ll probably find Jeff Dion on the scene just about immediately after — just as he was in Las Vegas Oct. 5, four days after the Oct. 1 shooting.
For weeks since the Route 91 Harvest festival massacre, attorney Paola Armeni’s name has sat atop the GoFundMe page for the Las Vegas Victims Fund.
The Las Vegas Victims Fund committee is holding two town hall meetings Tuesday to get input on the draft protocols it released Nov. 16, outlining who should receive donations following the Oct. 1 shooting.
Roy McClellan, who had worked odd jobs, had good days and he had bad days before the festival, his wife said. But the shooting’s aftermath was a blow, worsening his existing troubles. Then, on Nov. 17, she learned he’d been killed. A driver on State Route 160 in Pahrump hit him and sped away.
More than 150 survivors came together Saturday at the Henderson Convention Center to celebrate the first major holiday since the Oct. 1 mass shooting they escaped.
When the gunfire began Oct. 1, Bailey Schweitzer became the youngest of the 58 killed.
“Their family was just starting to develop,” says Donna Jaksha, the mother of a man who was preparing to marry Rocio Guillen, a woman who died in the Las Vegas mass shooting on Oct. 1.
Amber Patterson, 19, said her mother, Las Vegas shooting victim Lisa Patterson, was always the core of the family. In the wake of her mom’s death, she says she believes family members are bonding and growing closer.
Braxton and Greysen Tonks’ memories of their mother, Las Vegas shooting victim Neysa Tonks, are imprinted so deeply that they can laugh and share her sarcastic humor as they speak about what’s helped them cope with her death.
