MGM Resorts International and lawyers representing potentially thousands of victims of the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip have reached a tentative settlement of between $735 million and $800 million. (Mat Luschek /Las Vegas Review-Journal)
MGM Resorts International and victims of the Oct. 1 Harvest festival mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip and their families reached a tentative settlement, Oct. 3, 2019. (Mat Luschek/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A Nevada Highway Patrol trooper had an emotional reunion Sunday. Trooper Travis Smaka saw Leala Tyree for the first time since Oct. 1. The reunion happened at a butterfly release event at the Community Healing Garden. Tyree’s son drove a family to a hospital in his truck on Oct. 1. Smaka escorted her son through interstate traffic to the hospital. The injured woman and her father, who were in the truck’s bed, survived.
Survivors of the Oct. 1 mass shooting came together on Sunday near the south end of the Strip about a block from the Route 91 Harvest festival grounds where the attack happened.
Survivors of the Oct. 1 mass shooting gather on Sunday near the south end of the Strip about a block from the Route 91 Harvest festival grounds where the attach happened.
Miriam Lujan was seven months pregnant at the Route 91 Harvest festival. A stranger, Sue Ann Cornwell, ushered her out of the festival venue, shielding her belly. They recently reunited at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden. Lujan’s son, Xander, is now nearly four months old. Briana Erickson/ Las Vegas Review-Journal
A man was arrested Wednesday after making terroristic threats at a Las Vegas church. Prosecutors say the man idolizes Route 91 Harvest festival gunman, Stephen Paddock, and told church members last month that he was planning “something big.” The man, 23-year-old Calin Hodges, was indicted Wednesday on a terrorism charge. According to the indictment, at least 40 people were at the church service when Hodges proclaimed he would become “the greatest mass shooter in history.” Police say they discovered a diary inside Hodges vehicle, that stated “Stephen Paddock had stolen his idea on 1 October” and that he also admired the Columbine High School shooters. Two judges have ordered that Hodges be held on $15,000 bail and confined to a mental health facility.
Three performers at last year’s Route 91 Harvest Festival will perform a tribute at this year’s Grammy Awards to honor the 58 people who were killed and the more than 500 who were wounded.
Eric Church, Maren Morris and Brothers Osborne will collaborate on a special performance at the 60th annual Grammy Awards on Jan. 28.
“There’s not a day that goes by since that day that I have not thought of it and thought of the people and the victims,” Church said.
The country artists will perform a classic Grammy-winning song, which hasn’t been announced.
The string of holiday season killings in the Las Vegas Valley continued Saturday morning when two security guards were gunned down inside a hotel room at Arizona Charlie’s Decatur hotel-casino.
The top 10 Las Vegas news stories of 2017
10. Mannequin used to catch suspect in killings of two homeless men 9. Controversy over plans to develop homes on open spaces like golf courses 8. The execution of Scott Dozier was scheduled, then canceled 7. O.J. Simpson released from prison 5. Trials and acquittals in the Bundy case 4. A rising number of sex arrests among CCSD employees 3. Recreational marijuana sales start in Nevada 2. CCSD uncovers $60 million budget deficit and makes hundreds of staff cuts 1. The Route 91 Harvest festival shooting leaves 58 dead and more than 500 people injured
