The night of Oct. 1 at the Route 91 Harvest festival, Taylor Stovall, then 17 years old, was running with her friend from gunfire. Stovall had been shot in the arm, and her friend flagged down a man who was offering help and directing people to keep running.
Five women, some of whom barely knew one another before the Route 91 Harvest festival, have formed a sort of makeshift support group to help one another through different stages of post-traumatic stress.
About 1,300 people have filed applications seeking assistance from Nevada’s Victims of Crime program as a result of the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
After Dr. Timothy Dickhudt, a University Medical Center trauma surgeon, operated on Philip Aurich after the mass shooting in Las Vegas, he discovered that their families had connections in his native Minnesota.
