I was in a media tent processing photos from the day’s concert when I heard the sounds that many of us will never forget.
The Survivors
Nearly two years after being shot at the Route 91 Harvest festival, Luca Iclodean set out to face his fear of working another major music festival.
When two Las Vegas police officers met Jovanna Calzadillas on Oct. 1, 2017, she was a lifeless body in the arms of her husband. The rush to save her was on.
“It’s impossible to know how you’ll react when faced with your own mortality,” says Shannon Zeeman, a survivor of the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting.
The Justice Department has announced that it will award more than $16.7 million to help survivors of the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting in Las Vegas.
A day of events honoring the memory of Oct. 1 shooting victims and supporting the survivors kicked off with a run Sunday in downtown Las Vegas.
Lauren Card survived the mass shooting in Las Vegas, and the experience inspired her to join the police force back home in Springfield, Oregon.
Teche Bergeron was hit by shrapnel in Las Vegas Oct. 1 at the Route 91 Harvest festival. Her shirt had splotches of blood, but she held on to it.
Nick Robone doesn’t question attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival last Oct. 1, doesn’t believe he should have left his recreation hockey league game and simply went home, doesn’t regret agreeing to meet his younger brother and friends to watch country star Jason Aldean perform.
Some survivors chose tattoos as a permanent mark of a moment that changed everything, using symbolism and their bodies as a way to process their experience and emotions.
One year after the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, the Las Vegas Review-Journal examined how the 10-minute attack changed the community. And how it didn’t.
Nearly three months after the Oct. 1 shooting, three Summerlin women who survived the event visited the concert venue for the first time, retracing their steps.
J’Anna Hendricks escaped the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting without injury, but still struggles with what she experienced.
Though Chantal McCrorie survived the Oct. 1 shooting without any physical wounds, the Las Vegas woman continues to deal with emotional wounds from that night.
When Christina Gruber found out she would survive her injuries from the mass shooting on Oct. 1., she had two questions for the doctor.
Summerlin couple has found a new normal and appreciation for every day and, like many other survivors of Oct. 1, that night continues to shape their life, their sense of safety and their daily responsibilities.
Las Vegas residents and identical twins Natalia and Gianna Baca were shot that day but survived the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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.