A long-term resource center for Las Vegas shooting victims and families, the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center, opens Monday morning.
The Survivors
Mike Dempsey never thought he would be a part of a second national tragedy.
As of Friday, 10 people still were hospitalized in the Las Vegas Valley, four of whom were in critical condition, local hospitals reported.
Five women, some of whom barely knew one another before the Route 91 Harvest festival, have formed a sort of makeshift support group to help one another through different stages of post-traumatic stress.
About 1,300 people have filed applications seeking assistance from Nevada’s Victims of Crime program as a result of the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
After Dr. Timothy Dickhudt, a University Medical Center trauma surgeon, operated on Philip Aurich after the mass shooting in Las Vegas, he discovered that their families had connections in his native Minnesota.
Twenty patients remained hospitalized in the Las Vegas Valley on Tuesday with injuries sustained in the Oct. 1 mass shooting that claimed 58 lives and injured 546 others.
Starting Monday, The new Vegas Strong Resiliency Center will be at the Lied Ambulatory Care Center, 1424 Pinto Lane, near Martin Luther King Boulevard. The Family Assistance Center at the Las Vegas Convention Center will close Friday.
Since Oct. 1, the Las Vegas-based charity has expanded its scope of services to aid traumatized concertgoers, along with shooting victims and their families.
Las Vegas shooting victim Tina Frost began recovery in Baltimore on Monday as President Donald Trump praised the strength of the shooting’s survivors and called the perpetrator a mentally unstable individual with a “sick mind.”
Three days after the Route 91 Harvest festival, Kimbur Presmyk began writing her story and shared it a day later on Facebook. The supportive response amazed her. More importantly, she’s gratified that her story highlights the humanity that shone in the thick of madness.
Days after awakening from a medically induced coma, Route 91 Harvest festival shooting victim Tina Frost was headed back to her home state.
Kody Robertson met Michelle Vo on the last night of the Route 91 Harvest festival. He only got to spend about three hours with her before she was shot in front of him. Now he’s connected by tragedy and kindness to the family of someone special he met by happenstance.
Tina Frost took her first steps Friday, nearly two weeks after she was shot in the face during the mass shooting on the Strip.
Las Vegas-area hospitals are joining the list organizations that are working to help victims of the Oct. 1 mass shooting at Route 91 Harvest festival.
