Route 91 Harvest festival survivors struggled with mental health ailments years after the mass shooting on the Strip, according to a Boston University-led study.
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The annual ceremony recognizes those slain at the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting on Oct. 1, 2017, in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Born in the aftermath of the Oct. 1 mass shooting as a resources hub for survivors, the center is moving locations, being renamed and expanding services.
A woman described her six years of recovery after a bullet entered three lobes of her brain and doctors told her family she would not survive.
Several events are scheduled for Sunday, which marks the sixth anniversary of the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting.
County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a design for the Forever One Memorial, which will honor the dozens who died and hundreds who were injured at the Route 91 Harvest festival.
The Lahaina fire was not the first time Maui Police Chief John Pelletier has dealt with a massive loss of life. He was part of the department that, six years earlier, responded to the deadliest mass shooting in history.
All property owned by Stephen Paddock, who killed dozens of Las Vegas concertgoers in 2017, has been sold and all of his guns were destroyed or taken out of circulation by the FBI.
One gambler told the FBI that Stephen Paddock, who opened fire on concertgoers on Oct. 1, 2017, killing 60, was “very upset at the way casinos were treating him.”
MGM Resorts International has sold the Village, which includes most of the site of the 2017 Route 91 Harvest Festival, to the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota, the company announced Friday.
Politicians, survivors and victims’ families gathered together to shed tears and share hugs on the fifth anniversary of the mass shooting, which killed 60 and injured hundreds.
An influx of financial support after Oct. 1 has buoyed efforts to ensure completion of a new police training complex.
After the mass shooting in Las Vegas, bump stocks were banned by federal regulation. But that rule is under challenge, and bump stocks could be legal once more.
The memorial will honor the 60 victims and hundreds of survivors who were part of the deadliest mass shooting in recent America history, which unfolded across the street from Mandalay Bay on Oct. 1, 2017.
Las Vegas police and the news organization agreed to end a dispute over the legal costs of gaining access to records from the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting.