Volunteers from Las Vegas and Hawaii brought portions of a 2-mile-long lei at the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign and two other locations Saturday to honor victims of the Route 91 Harvest festival shootings.
The Memorials
Hundreds of people have gathered to remember a 42-year-old Massachusetts woman who was among the 58 people killed in the mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music festival.
Hawaii’s “Lei of Aloha for World Peace” — and representatives of the more than 500 volunteers who created it — will present sections of a 2-mile-long woven ti-leaf lei at two memorial sites created to honor victims of the Oct. 1 Route 91 Harvest music festival attack.
Wooden crosses memorializing each of the 58 people killed during the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting will be moved to the Clark County Museum on Nov. 12, the county announced Friday.
They road-tripped from Southern California, or jetted from as far as Massachusetts or Canada, bound to see their favorite country musicians play on the Las Vegas Strip.
Country star Jason Aldean brought the party back Thursday in his return to the stage following the deadly mass shooting that broke out while he was performing in Las Vegas, but the fun was tempered by the sting of the tragedy.
Hooded sweatshirts made in memory of Erick Silva were worn at a memorial service at Davis Funeral Home in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017. Silva was working as a security guard at the Route 91 Harvest festival the night of the shooting.
The Clark County Museum has begun collecting tributes left on the Strip and other public areas in response to the Las Vegas shooting in order to preserve and catalog them.
Online retailer Zappos will cover the funeral costs of any of the 58 families affected by the Las Vegas Strip shooting who approach the company.
It was no surprise that on Oct. 1 Erick Silva – a security guard stationed at the front of the stage during the Route 91 Harvest festival — sprang into action when shots began firing into the crowd.
Stacee Etcheber was a cowgirl at heart, in her element around horses. Her husband Vincent Etcheber, not so much.
A Massachusetts mother who was among the 58 people killed in the mass shooting was remembered by her husband on Thursday for her love and faith.
They delivered a mile-long “Lei of Aloha” to Paris’ bullet-riddled Bataclan nightclub following the 2015 attack that left 90 dead — and another last year to Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, where 49 died in a mass shooting.
Steve Round stood guard at the memorial at Reno Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard South from Oct. 2 until Tuesday night, making sure passers-by treated a shrine to the shooting victims with the reverence it deserved.
Friends, family and coworkers remember Stacee Etcheber, a hairstylist and mother of two from Novato, California, as vivacious, charismatic and joyful.
