We knew the day would come. It was inevitable. But most of us thought the horror wreaked Sunday would come from overseas, not some gambling geezer living in a retirement community in Mesquite.
Shootings
As President Donald Trump met with the victims and heroes of Sunday’s mass shooting, Rep. Dina Titus “personally delivered” to White House staff a letter inviting him to meet with the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, a group established by the Democratic Caucus after the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting.
Las Vegas Strip mass murderer Stephen Paddock used his Mandalay Bay hotel room to spray massive aviation fuel tanks with bullets Sunday night, a knowledgeable source told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The Mandalay Bay security officer that Stephen Paddock shot has been identified as Jesus Campos by the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America.
Summer Clyburn didn’t realize what was happening at the Route 91 Harvest Festival until she turned around and saw her fiance, Michael Gracia, on the ground. Gracia, an officer with the Ontario (California) Police Department, had been shot in the head. Summer shielded Michael with her own body and took a bullet in the back.
Stephen Paddock, the gunman who rained bullets on the Route 91 Harvest festival on Sunday night, spent decades stockpiling weapons and ammunition, and he “meticulously” planned the night he sprayed gunfire from his room at the Mandalay Bay on a crowd of concertgoers on the Strip, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Wednesday.
Clark County commissioners and staff will meet with representatives of a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit Thursday to determine how best to deliver donated money to victims of the Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting, County Manager Yolanda King said.
After Las Vegas on Sunday experienced the worst mass shooting in modern American history — breaking the record no community wants to break — comfort is on the way.
Las Vegas city employee Cameron Robinson could tell if someone needed to smile, so he’d walk by and make a face to draw out a grin.
About 10 p.m. Sunday, Raymond Page heard the first gunshots. The Henderson man grabbed his phone, turned it on and started recording.
In her first public statement Wednesday, the girlfriend of Stephen Paddock said she thought he was breaking up with her, not planning a massacre.
President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, met privately Wednesday in Las Vegas with victims and heroes of Sunday’s mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, praising the “love and courage” that prevented an even-worse tragedy.
A GoFundMe account set up to aid victims of Sunday’s massacre has raised over $9 million since its creation.
At a Tuesday evening news conference, Undersheriff Kevin McMahill showed a few minutes of footage compiled from a few of the 67 body cameras worn by Metro officers on Sunday night.
As Tuesday went from daylight to dusk, officials and pastors spoke and prayed for healing for valley residents at a vigil held in lieu of a previously scheduled National Night Out event.