Three days after the Route 91 Harvest festival, Kimbur Presmyk began writing her story and shared it a day later on Facebook. The supportive response amazed her. More importantly, she’s gratified that her story highlights the humanity that shone in the thick of madness.
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Nine dogs joined about 30 counselors from the American Red Cross to help calm and uplift those affected by the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting.
For all the horror the past week has brought us, Southern Nevadans’ response to Sunday’s shootings at the Route 91 Harvest festival has proven that we really are a community — and a strong, compassionate one at that.
Diazepam, the anti-anxiety medicine prescribed for Las Vegas gunman less than four months before the mass shooting, has a deserved reputation as a Jekyll-and-Hyde drug, calming some and causing others to become more aggressive.
A Henderson doctor wrote a prescription for the drug diazepam for Stephen Paddock, 64 of Mesquite and he filled it the same day in Reno, according to a state Prescription Monitoring Program record obtained by the Review-Journal.