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Las Vegas shooting victim: Austin Meyer, Reno, Nevada

Austin Meyer was in Las Vegas celebrating his 24th birthday at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on Sunday when he was killed in the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, a spokeswoman for Truckee Meadows Community College confirmed Thursday. In an interview with a California TV station, his sister Veronica described him as “ambitious, smart and hard working.” Meyer recently moved from the Monterey Peninsula to Reno and enrolled in the college’s two-year transportation technologies program,KSBW reported. His fiancee, Dana Getreu, is a student at the nearby University of Nevada, Reno.

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