Las Vegas police check the Route 91 Harvest festival grounds for survivors after the mass shooting on Oct. 1, 2017 near Mandalay Bay. LVMPD body camera footage.
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Hundreds of survivors and witnesses to the Las Vegas mass shooting broke into applause when police officers entered the Tropicana resort on the Strip.
A police sergeant estimated that around 1,500 people were sheltered in the building’s halls at the time, around 2 a.m. on Oct. 2, 2017. Many of them were draped in white blankets.
The moment was captured on a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Officer’s body camera.
Seventeen minutes later, the officer picked up a bullhorn and thanked the crowd for their response.
“I’m terribly sorry about tonight,” he said. “We have no control over the actions of evil people, but we’re here now…. Thank you so much for coming to our city. We’re sorry this happened. We hope you can come back some day and enjoy a great weekend.”
Several people shouted “thank you” as the crowd applauded again.
The latest released body camera footage from the Oct. 1 shooting showed the later hours of the night and early morning. It mostly showed officers clearing hallways of hotels, clearing civilians in lockdown, and directing pedestrians to leave the scene. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas police officers inside Mandalay Bay’s security office had difficulty communicating with emergency services outside after the Oct. 1 mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival. LVMPD body camera video.
Las Vegas commemorates Oct. 1, one year after the mass shooting that killed 58 people on the Strip across from Mandalay Bay at the Route 91 Harvest festival.
Members of the Vegas Golden Knights NHL team showed up for a community blood drive on the first anniversary of the Las Vegas shooting, Oct. 1, 2018. (Mat Luschek/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Chris Lisle, visiting from Nashville, Tennessee, was not at the shooting but said he designed Jason Aldean’s show, as a concert production designer.
“I wasn’t physically here, but all my friends were,” Lisle said. “It hurt. It hurt bad. It still hurts, a lot.”
Lisle left 58 roses along the South gate of the festival grounds in memory of the 58 who were murdered.
Local shooting survivors Jackie Baren, left, and Robert Baren stand outside the East entrance/exit gate of the festival grounds on Monday, Oct. 1, 2018 in Las Vegas remembering their escape from the gunfire. Todd Prince/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Vitalent hosts a blood drive at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, the first anniversary of the Las Vegas shootings. (Mat Luschek/Las Vegas Review-Journal)