Every mass-casualty event attracts its share of crackpots, and the Oct. 1 attack in Las Vegas is no different. But the flow of “fake news” about the shooting exceeds anything Sheriff Joe Lombardo has seen in other high-profile cases.
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“You immediately think you’re gonna know the reasons why in the short term. Now, here we are a week after the fact and we still don’t know,”Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said during a Las Vegas Review-Journal interview Tuesday.
MGM Resorts International on Thursday released a new timeline of the events leading up to the Las Vegas Strip massacre, further challenging the sheriff’s latest account ahead of a planned Friday briefing.
All personal belongings left behind at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after the mass shooting on Oct. 1 areavailable for pickup, Clark County officials announced Thursday.
The maintenance worker caught in the initial hallway gunfire of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock said he shut off the elevators in Mandalay Bay and helped to direct police to Paddock’s room.
In a statement released late Tuesday, MGM Resorts International disputed Sheriff Joe Lombardo’s revised timeline of the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the Strip.
Despite Mandalay Bay shooter Stephen Paddock’s well-documented gambling history, he had no known gambling debts, Sheriff Joe Lombardo said in an extensive interview Tuesday with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
In the last two days, about 160 people had been reunited with their phones, cowboy hats, wallets and other miscellaneous items at the Family Assistance Center set up at the Las Vegas Convention Center, officials say.
Las Vegas police released new details Monday about what occurred in the days and minutes before the mass shooting on the Strip, raising new questions about why it took about an hour for officers to enter the gunman’s hotel suite.
A Las Vegas law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against a bump stock manufacturer on behalf of the victims of the Harvest 91 country music festival.
The Family Assistance Center has gathered more than 10,000 items from two areas closest to the Route 91 Harvest festival concert stage on the Las Vegas Strip, where a shooter killed 58 and wounded nearly 500 last week.
The mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival on Oct. 1 that left 58 people dead and nearly 500 injured was not only the lead story locally, but also across the nation.
FBI Las Vegas officials on Sunday announced an item retrieval plan based out of the Family Assistance Center, one week after the deadly mass shooting outside of Mandalay Bay.
As 22,000 people were enjoying the music at the Route 91 Harvest festival, terror rained down upon them from a shooter on the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay.
Just as the Sandy Hook school shooting prompted efforts to regulate gun policies in Nevada in 2013, the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 will likely result in a new push when the Legislature convenes in 2019.
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