Raymond Page, a traffic systems technician with Clark County, says he loaded his truck with at least eight people that were wounded and drove them to nearby medics during Sunday night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas during an interview in Henderson, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017. (Joel Angel Juarez/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @jajuarezphoto
Denise Salmon Burditus, 50, died in her husband Tony’s arms Sunday night after a gunman armed with an arsenal of rifles opened fire on the crowd of 22,000 from a 32nd-floor window at the Mandalay Bay. The high school sweethearts had been married for 32 years in a relationship that Tony said “only grew stronger” over the years. They had two kids and four grandchildren, with a fifth on the way. Tony said he and Denise regularly traveled the country with the grandchildren. Tony described Denise as a person who “always had a smile on her face.”
Local police and religious leaders met with the community to grieve over the attack on Sunday. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae
Bailey Schweitzer, A lifelong resident of Bakersfield, California, is among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Schweitzer, 20, was a receptionist at the Infinity Communications consulting company, office manager Amie Campbell confirmed Tuesday. “She tried to make everybody’s day brighter,” Campbell said. “She was a spirit that we’re never going to have at Infinity again.”
Not long before Castilla was shot and killed on Sunday in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, the 28-year-old told her brother that she wanted to serve cancer patients with her talents. For the Huntington Beach, California, resident, makeup was more than just a part of her job at Sephora. “That’s what made her really happy. Making people feel beautiful,” Athena Castilla said. “She just had such a great outlook on life.” Andrea was visiting Athena, who lives in Las Vegas, for her birthday on Friday. Andrea’s death has been made even more painful by the fact that her boyfriend was preparing to propose to her, Athena said.
Stacee Etcheber, a mother and a hair stylist from Marin County, California, is among the victims killed at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, the San Francisco Police Department confirmed Tuesday. Etcheber was with her husband Vinnie, a San Francisco police officer, at the Las Vegas music festival, according to a statement from San Francisco Police Chief William Scott. Etcheber worked at the Ciao Bella Salon in Novato, California. She had more than 20 years’ experience as a master stylist, and a loyal clientele, according to a brief biography on the salon’s website.
Construction estimator Thomas Day Jr. is among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Day Jr. was attending the festival Sunday with his father and four daughters when he was fatally shot, said Bruce Abbey, vice president of Portrait Construction. “He would always stand up for you,” Abbey said. “He’ll be missed.”
Pennsylvania youth sports coach Bill Wolfe Jr. is among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, authorities in his hometown confirmed Tuesday. Wolfe, a youth sports coach and 42-year-old father of two, was celebrating his 20th anniversary with his wife, Robyn, when the shooting happened. Wolfe was a Little League coach and coached the Shippensburg youth wrestling program for children in kindergarten through sixth grade, said Tony Yaniello, head coach of Shippensburg High School’s varsity wrestling team. “Some people simply live in the community, Bill lived for his community,” Yaniello told the Review-Journal.
Michelle Vo, killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, was remembered Tuesday in the U.S. House of Representatives. The 32-year-old Eagle Rock, California, woman was “an ambitious hard worker, known for her charisma and fierce independence,” according to the statement read on the House floor by Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif. A native of San Jose, California, Vo moved south after college to work in financial services for the Pasadena branch of New York Life Insurance Co. She was also a member of the LAX Coastal Chamber of Commerce.
Derrick “Bo” Taylor, a California correctional lieutenant who led inmates fighting wildfires, is among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest county music festival. Taylor, was a 29-year veteran of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and celebrated his 52nd birthday on Sept. 25, confirmed department spokesman Bill Sessa. “The relationships between the officers and the inmate firefighters is much more personal,” Sessa said Taylor headed up the Ventura Conservation Camp in Camarillo. Taylor led a staff of nine, a group responsible for more than 100 inmates in coordination with Cal Fire, the state’s firefighting arm.
