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Las Vegas shooting victim: Michelle Vo, Eagle Rock, California

Michelle Vo, killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, was remembered Tuesday in the U.S. House of Representatives. The 32-year-old Eagle Rock, California, woman was “an ambitious hard worker, known for her charisma and fierce independence,” according to the statement read on the House floor by Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif. A native of San Jose, California, Vo moved south after college to work in financial services for the Pasadena branch of New York Life Insurance Co. She was also a member of the LAX Coastal Chamber of Commerce.

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