Hawaii’s “Lei of Aloha for World Peace” — and representatives of the more than 500 volunteers who created it — will present sections of a 2-mile-long woven ti-leaf lei at two memorial sites created to honor victims of the Oct. 1 Route 91 Harvest music festival attack.
Las Vegas musician Bryan Hopkins tells how he and others eluded the shooter’s bullets during the Route 91 Harvest music festival Oct. 1, including taking refuge in a refrigerated compartment and later making dash to safety.
Cutouts of angels for the 58 victims of the Route 91 Harvest festival mass shooting are left on a palm tree as people visit a makeshift memorial near the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign in Las Vegas on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017.
Lawyers for a California woman who was shot and critically wounded during the Route 91 Harvest music festival filed a lawsuit Friday against MGM Resorts International, the concert host and a bump stock maker.
Many of those injured in the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip were from outside Nevada and now face recuperation in local hospitals with local doctors.
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.
A sometimes combative and at times emotional Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo on Friday announced a second significant adjustment to the Metropolitan Police Department’s timeline of events surrounding the Oct. 1 Strip attack.
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon and surrounding events will take place as scheduled on the weekend of Nov. 12, but there will be changes to the course after the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the Strip.
Every mass-casualty event attracts its share of crackpots, and the Oct. 1 attack in Las Vegas is no different. But the flow of “fake news” about the shooting exceeds anything Sheriff Joe Lombardo has seen in other high-profile cases.
“She was my one and only true love,” Albert Alvarado said of his wife, Heather Alvarado, who was killed in the Oct. 1 shooting. “She was loving and giving. There was never a time when she didn’t want to help somebody. She always saw the good in everyone — she was perfect.”
