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Quickly built garden is first step in helping Las Vegas heal

They carted dirt in wheel barrows, hung mementos from twine and planted 58 trees — one for each victim of the mass shooting at a country music festival on the Strip.

 
Community efforts prove that we are Las Vegas strong — VIDEO

For all the horror the past week has brought us, Southern Nevadans’ response to Sunday’s shootings at the Route 91 Harvest festival has proven that we really are a community — and a strong, compassionate one at that.

 
Henderson firefighter recounts efforts to get wounded brother to safety

Off-duty Henderson firefighter Anthony Robone was on the west side of the Route 91 Harvest festival stage about halfway back in the crowd with his girlfriend, brother and three friends when the shooting started Sunday night.

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Paddock possibly psychotic but not ‘psychopath,’ experts say

“Psychopath has become a shorthand term for a sadistic, extraordinarily violent individual,” says UNLV professor who has researched psychopaths for years. “… That’s not Paddock.”

 
Las Vegas shooting victim: Austin Meyer, Reno, Nevada

A Reno man is among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest Festival Sunday, his former employer confirmed Thursday afternoon.

 
Las Vegas shooting victim: Doug Cotter, Orange County, California

Near the end of a cellphone video, as people were seen running away as bullets rained down from a Mandalay Bay hotel room, Doug Cotter can be seen leaning against a wall and asking for help.

 
Drug given to Paddock calms some, provokes others, experts say

Diazepam, the anti-anxiety medicine prescribed for Las Vegas gunman less than four months before the mass shooting, has a deserved reputation as a Jekyll-and-Hyde drug, calming some and causing others to become more aggressive.

 
First Route 91 emergency responders recount triage

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.

 
Las Vegas shooting victim: Rocio Guillen, Corona, California

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 Strip shooter targeted aviation fuel tanks, source says

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.

 
To shield fiance, woman took bullet in back at Route 91 Harvest Festival

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.

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