Samanta Arjune had an extra ticket to the Route 91 Harvest festival country music concert on the Strip Oct. 1., and invited her brother Malcolm Bissember. They thought the gunfire was fireworks. When they realized it was gunfire, they started to run.
Paralyzed Las Vegas police officer Shay Mikalonis was being transferred to an out-of-state medical facility Wednesday morning for treatment of a severe spinal cord injury. (Glenn Puit/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Greg Zanis was the Illinois carpenter who built and erected the 58 simple white crosses in the shadow of the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign that turned into a focal point for a city’s grief after the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting in 2017. He died on Monday, May 4, 2020. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
One person was struck multiple times Tuesday morning in a shooting at a western Las Vegas condominium complex, and police were still searching for the shooter as of Tuesday afternoon. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Tree of Life Lighting in Remembrance of Kim Gervais
Las Vegas police are investigating a homicide on East Lake Mead Boulevard and Lamont Street in the northeast valley. They said a woman was found shot to death in a car that had crashed in the intersection. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Chelsea Romo of California, a survivor of the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting in Las Vegas, and her attorney, James Frantz, discuss the settlement reached against MGM Hotels for Oct. 1, 2017 mass shooting victims. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
MGM Resorts International and victims of the Oct. 1 Harvest festival mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip and their families reached a tentative settlement, Oct. 3, 2019. (Mat Luschek/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Remembrance video honors the 58 people who were killed at the Route 91 Harvest festival on Oct. 1, 2017, on the Las Vegas Strip. (Clark County)
Troy and Shannon Zeeman of Garden Grove, California, discuss life after Oct 1 shooting in Las Vegas. The couple started Security Consultant Zeeman, dedicated to active shooter preparedness training. (Elizabeth Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Oct. 1 was the second day on the job for Officer Brandon Engstrom who saved a critically injured woman amid the chaos of the Route 91 shooting. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
With the anniversary of the Route 91 shootings in Las Vegas approaching, Luca Iclodean shares his path of physical and emotional recovery.
With the anniversary of the Route 91 shootings in Las Vegas approaching, Luca Iclodean shares his path of physical and emotional recovery. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
It’s been two years since the mass shooting of Oct. 1, and the Healing Garden has grown and evolved. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Oct. 1 was the second day on the job for Officer Brandon Engstrom who saved a critically injured woman amid the chaos of the Route 91 shooting. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
MGM Resorts International has announced its plans for converting the Route 91 Harvest music festival site, where 58 people lost their lives in the 2017 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip. (Mat Luschek / Review-Journal)
Two Las Vegas police officers hold their position in the Mandalay Bay hallway one floor beneath the Oct. 1 gunman as rounds are fired into the concert crowd below.
The Clark County Museum catalogs the final item from the bulk of Route 91 Harvest festival artifacts. (John Przybys/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The last of the more than 17,000 items left at the makeshift memorial near the Las Vegas sign after the Oct. 1 shootings have been catalogued at the Clark County Museum in Las Vegas. The final item was a black-and-white bumper sticker bearing “#VEGASSTRONG. An additional 200 items currently on display at the museum will be catalogued when the exhibit comes down. (K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A Las Vegas police officer helps people escape the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival on Oct. 1, 2017.
Las Vegas police check the Route 91 Harvest festival grounds for survivors after the mass shooting on Oct. 1, 2017 near Mandalay Bay. LVMPD body camera footage.
Hundreds of survivors and witnesses to the Las Vegas mass shooting broke into applause when police officers entered the Tropicana resort on the Strip.
A police sergeant estimated that around 1,500 people were sheltered in the building’s halls at the time, around 2 a.m. on Oct. 2, 2017. Many of them were draped in white blankets.
The moment was captured on a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Officer’s body camera.
Seventeen minutes later, the officer picked up a bullhorn and thanked the crowd for their response.
“I’m terribly sorry about tonight,” he said. “We have no control over the actions of evil people, but we’re here now…. Thank you so much for coming to our city. We’re sorry this happened. We hope you can come back some day and enjoy a great weekend.”
Several people shouted “thank you” as the crowd applauded again.
The latest released body camera footage from the Oct. 1 shooting showed the later hours of the night and early morning. It mostly showed officers clearing hallways of hotels, clearing civilians in lockdown, and directing pedestrians to leave the scene. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas police officers inside Mandalay Bay’s security office had difficulty communicating with emergency services outside after the Oct. 1 mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival. LVMPD body camera video.
A group of people gatheres in the Mandalay Bay lobby on Oct. 1, 2018 in protest of what they considered a minor visual tribute to the 58 victims of the Route 91 Harvest Festival attack. (Leah Wells-Tuckman)
People on the street react to the Mandalay Bay not dimming their lights for the October 1 victims.
Las Vegas commemorates Oct. 1, one year after the mass shooting that killed 58 people on the Strip across from Mandalay Bay at the Route 91 Harvest festival.
A blood drive was held at the Las Vegas Convention Center on the one year anniversary of the Oct. 1 shooting. (Mat Luschek/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Local shooting survivors Jackie Baren, left, and Robert Baren stand outside the East entrance/exit gate of the festival grounds on Monday, Oct. 1, 2018 in Las Vegas remembering their escape from the gunfire. Todd Prince/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Chris Lisle, visiting from Nashville, Tennessee, was not at the shooting but said he designed Jason Aldean’s show, as a concert production designer.
“I wasn’t physically here, but all my friends were,” Lisle said. “It hurt. It hurt bad. It still hurts, a lot.”
Lisle left 58 roses along the South gate of the festival grounds in memory of the 58 who were murdered.
