Laura Shipp’s Dodger fandom was a theme at the 50-year-old single mother’s celebration of life Sunday at Westlake Village Inn. The reception room filled with around 300 family members and friends, most dressed in Dodger blue, to remember the Las Vegas woman who was one of the 58 killed Oct. 1 at the Route 91 Harvest festival.
Riding on the back of her husband, Eddie’s Harley-Davidson motorcycle, Gloria Avila secured the urn containing the ashes of her niece, Route 91 Harvest festival shooting victim Denise Cohen. Above the gold etched flowers, Gloria tied fluffy white angel wings in a bow. She held the urn tightly to her chest as she and Eddie, clad in a black denim biker jacket, rode to Santa Barbara Community Church.
A long-term resource center for Las Vegas shooting victims and families, the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center, opens Monday morning.
Ohio-based artist Ron Moore Jr. watched the details of the Oct. 1 Las Vegas attack unfold on TV and prayed to find a way to help the victims’ families. Since then, he’s spent more than 125 hours drawing portraits of the victims.
Coaches, Basic High School basketball players, close friends, and family came together at a Henderson hillside site to paint a “Q” in Route 91 Harvest festival shooting victim Quinton Robbins’ honor near the familiar “B” for Basic.
Las Vegas police officer Charleston Hartfield will be laid to rest today.
Since the Las Vegas Community Garden opened to honor victims of the Oct. 1 shooting, Andre King has been there, offering drinks and cookies, and, sometimes, hugs to visitors at the downtown memorial.
A resolution memorializing victims of the Las Vegas shooting and the bravery of first responders at the Route 91 Harvest festival passed unanimously in the Senate Tuesday.
Legions of people lined up Sunday night under the flashing neon lights of Las Vegas Boulevard, coming together for a walk paying tribute to the victims of the Oct. 1 mass shooting — 336 hours had ticked past since tragedy struck the Strip.
More than 100 of those lives gathered Saturday night at Black Rock Park in Santa Clara City, Utah, to celebrate Robinson, a city of Las Vegas employee who was one of the 58 people killed in the Oct. 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
