Students at Green Valley High School have raised roughly $60,000 for the Las Vegas Victims’ Fund by selling Vegas Strong T-shirts to schools across the Clark County School District.
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A group of 16 people will decide how to distribute raised funds to Las Vegas shooting victims, the fund committee announced Tuesday.
In a statement Saturday, Scottsdale, Arizona-based auction company Barrett-Jackson said a 2007 Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake owned by Barrett-Jackson President Steve Davis sold for $1 million. Benicia, California-based DC Solar issued the winning bid.
Henderson resident Shannon Fleming is raising money for Las Vegas shooting victims on her website, wtfclothing.net, but she doesn’t know what to do with the money.
Danielle Kraze’s story seemed like yet another tragic tale from the Mandalay Bay mass shooting.
They got the call within 10 minutes. Within 45 minutes, crisis-trained volunteers from the Trauma Intervention Program of Southern Nevada were ready to help the victims and families of the Oct. 1 Route 91 Harvest festival shooting.
Victims of the Las Vegas shooting will have to apply to receive money raised on their behalf and might have to wait six months for payment, a victim-compensation expert told the Review-Journal.
Fraudulent posts to crowdfunding websites are common after highly publicized tragedies such as the Mandalay Bay shooting.
When donating money to mass shooting victim campaigns, buyer beware. Hundreds of crowdfunding, corporate and grass-roots drives have been established in the two weeks since the Oct. 1 massacre on the Las Vegas Strip.
Donors from all over the world have contributed more than $15 million so far for victims of the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting. But the sum is spread over several accounts yet to be consolidated. It’s not clear how much of the funds raised will go directly to the intended recipients.