Before the 32nd-floor window of Mandalay Bay was obliterated, the night hadn’t been particularly eventful for Glen Simpson, an emergency medical responder. That was before 64-year-old Stephen Paddock fired an automatic-style rifle into a crowd of 22,000 concertgoers Sunday.
Just six weeks ago, Rocio Guillen gave birth to her fourth child — a baby boy named Austin. She and her fiancé, Chris Jaksha, loved country music and decided to attend the Route 91 Festival to celebrate their friend’s birthday.
Las Vegas visitors talk about the Strip shooting and how it will impact their view of Las Vegas.
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.
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.
A Seattle resident is among those fatally wounded in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest Festival Sunday, the Washington Post has reported.
Nicol Kimura and her close group of friends from Southern California had been looking forward to the Route 91 country music festival since buying their tickets nearly a year ago.
