While the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority was celebrated for its role in the weeks immediately following the Oct. 1 shooting, that isn’t likely to be the case when it comes to memorializing the tragedy and building a permanent tribute to the victims and heroes.
The Columbine Memorial is a small, paved park with a water feature near the entrance and, in the center, a circle of plaques names each victim. Steps out from the center circle, on a surrounding wall, carefully curated quotes from survivors, teachers, parents and former President Bill Clinton make the tragedy impossible to forget.
The Pulse nightclub still stands, nearly two years after a mass shooting at the once-vibrant spot in Orlando. The question now, though: what to do with it?
In San Bernardino, the county government is leading the memorial planning discussions, along with input from victim families and survivors. Officials have already hired a consultant. There is little concern about money.
Charleston church’s pastor hopes memorial to the “Emanuel 9” will capture the city’s love and forgiveness.
When it came time for Virginia Tech to decide on a permanent memorial to the victims of a 2007 massacre, the answer “lied with what the students did that very first night.”
More than 30 years ago, an unremarkable afternoon at a crowded McDonald’s just north of the Mexican border was interrupted with gunfire. And after all this time, the pain is still fresh.
With a memorial due for completion in just a few short months, excitement in Aurora, Colorado, is gradually beginning to stifle the somber lingering of grief.
Friends and family shared memories of 18-year-old Zach Ragusa during a vigil Saturday night outside the Terrible’s Car Wash Lube in Henderson, just one day after he was killed in a shooting Friday morning.
Las Vegas police identified the two officers who fired their guns at a man they said was wielding a knife Thursday.
The Metropolitan Police Department have accused 20-year-old Alisha Rucker of shooting Darin King in the head, killing the 27-year-old, about 5:15 a.m. Monday at an east Las Vegas home.
Elaine Wilson and Rachel Crosby discuss the logistics around creating a memorial for the victims of the October 1 shooting.
The vigil, to be held near the site of the largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, will honor the survivors and the 58 people killed at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Oct. 1.
Lilah Kellermeier died Nov. 22 from abusive head trauma, the Clark County coroner ruled Friday. She died at University Medical Center, where she was admitted Nov. 19 after tests done at another hospital revealed a brain bleed and a possible skull fracture.
North Las Vegas police responded about 6:30 a.m. to the 2500 block of Daley Street, near Las Vegas Boulevard North and East Carey Avenue, where officers found a man in his 40s with a gunshot wound.
