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.
Assistant Sheriff Charles Hank meets with members of the media to discuss additional details about the officer involved shooting that occurred on February 6, 2018. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
Elevators at Mandalay Bay are again stopping at the 32nd floor after a pause at the end of last year.
Mandalay Bay closed off a few floors starting in late November amid a guest slowdown caused by the combination of the holiday season and fallout from the Oct. 1 mass shooting.
At a Sunday night event geared toward millennials, Pastor Benny Perez told a a crowded rented retail space at 918 S. Main St. that God does not exist to inflict pain on humanity. The tragedy happened because “there is evil in the world.” (Nicole Raz/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Rev. Barry Vaughn, with the Christ Church Episcopal, gave a litany against gun violence in the wake of the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip that took the lives of 58 people. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
At Discovery Church in North Las Vegas, Pastor Dean Sanner, who doubles as a local police chaplain told attendees that authorities wouldn’t be able to explain the shooter’s motives. “Man is evil at its core, make no mistake about it,” Sanner declared. “God’s Word tells us that we are born into sin. Oh, can we do good things? We can, just like the shooter did… Just because somebody does good things doesn’t mean they don’t have a sin nature … It’s not until we get Christ in our heart that He begins to eradicate that and clean us up.” (Harrison Keely/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Members of the First African-Methodist Episcopal Church came together Sunday to celebrate life and honor the victims of last Sunday’s deadly mass shooting that killed 58 people. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
