They met for less than a minute amid the chaos of Oct. 1, and neither remembers it very well. But Vanessa Esquivel said Kody Robertson did more than enough in a few short seconds to earn the rank of honorary uncle to her newborn son.
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Women who were pregnant at the Route 91 Harvest festival have been welcoming the newest survivors into the world.
Survivors of the Oct. 1 massacre and those concerned about gun violence hope to effect change through a fledgling group dedicated to reducing gun deaths.
Nearly two months after a gunman opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest music festival crowd, Roy McClellan killed himself. His story — one of good days and bad in the struggle against depression — is not unlike others in a community still grieving.
Contributions from the Southern Nevada gaming, tourism and entertainment industry accounted for almost 40 percent of the $31.4 million collected by the Las Vegas Victims’ Fund, organizers of the fund said Friday.
The fund’s committee reveals donation total and says it will distribute the money to at least 532 claimants by the end of the month. Some other claims are still going through the vetting process.
The Las Vegas Victims’ Fund is slated to begin distributing payments to eligible victims Monday, according to the original plan, but fund officials have not yet said how much money has been collected.
Citing the Las Vegas Strip shooting, a bipartisan group of Western states’ senators, including Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, filed a bill Thursday to ban bump stocks, which increase the rate of fire of semi-automatic rifles to nearly that of fully automatic weapons.
Volunteers are helping the broad array of Oct. 1 memorial items take a permanent place in the Clark County Museum.
More than 500 pages of federal search warrant records pertaining to the Las Vegas mass shooting were disclosed early Tuesday after the Las Vegas Review-Journal and other media organizations sued for their release.
Lawyers for victims of the Oct. 1 mass shooting have filed a class-action lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment, asking the concert promoter to refund the cost of 22,000 tickets to the Route 91 Harvest festival.
Las Vegas police touted a decrease in violent crime when they released their 2017 statistics, but several criminologists say the drop — less than 1 percent — is insignificant. The department’s homicide numbers also contain some discrepancies.
Three Las Vegas shooting survivors on Sunday received the first disbursements from Route91Strong, a nonprofit that helps victims of the Oct. 1 shooting.
Nearly five months after the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting, Southern Nevadans continue to channel their grief through mementos.
Clark County has stopped releasing autopsy reports for all 58 victims of the Oct. 1 mass shooting, despite a district judge’s ruling that the reports are public records.
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