The Clark County Museum catalogs the final item from the bulk of Route 91 Harvest festival artifacts. (John Przybys/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
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The last of the more than 17,000 items left at the makeshift memorial near the Las Vegas sign after the Oct. 1 shootings have been catalogued at the Clark County Museum in Las Vegas. The final item was a black-and-white bumper sticker bearing “#VEGASSTRONG. An additional 200 items currently on display at the museum will be catalogued when the exhibit comes down. (K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A Las Vegas police officer helps people escape the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival on Oct. 1, 2017.
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.
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.
A group of people gatheres in the Mandalay Bay lobby on Oct. 1, 2018 in protest of what they considered a minor visual tribute to the 58 victims of the Route 91 Harvest Festival attack. (Leah Wells-Tuckman)
People on the street react to the Mandalay Bay not dimming their lights for the October 1 victims.
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.