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April 24, 2024

Vegas Mass Shooting

In this Feb. 1, 2013, file photo, an employee of North Raleigh Guns demonstrates how a "bump" stock works at the Raleigh, N.C., shop.
Bump stock maker seeks compensation from Las Vegas massacre victim fund
July 13, 2020
New York Post
The maker of the now-banned gun accessory that worsened the Las Vegas massacre has filed a little-noticed court motion that threatens ...
Douglas Haig takes questions from reporters at a news conference Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, in Chandler, Ariz. Haig spoke about his experience selling ammunition to the gunman who killed 58 people and injured hundreds more in the Oct. 1, 2017, Las Vegas shooting.
Arizona man gets 13 months in Strip shooting ammunition case
June 30, 2020
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press
An Arizona man was sentenced Tuesday to 13 months in federal prison for selling home-loaded bullets to the gunman who unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, killing 58 people in the Las Vegas Strip in October 2017. Douglas Haig, 57, also was ...
A look at the Community Healing Garden in Downtown Las Vegas, Monday, June 22, 2020. The garden was created to honor those killed in the Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting that happened on Oct. 1, 2017.
Syringes, feces spoil solemn nature of the Oct. 1 tragedy Healing Garden
June 24, 2020
By Sara MacNeil
Eddie Schmitz considers the Community Healing Garden, a memorial for the Oct. 1 Las Vegas Strip shooting victims, a sacred place, kind of a “church without walls.”
Jackie Trujillo, who studies criminal justice and communications at UNLV, works for one of the task forces responding to COVID-19 as part of her Nevada National Guard duties.
National Guard member, Route 91 survivor takes on new mission: COVID-19
May 28, 2020
By Kelcie Grega
Jackie Trujillo appears to be seasoned for any crisis that comes her way. During the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting on the Strip, she led her sisters and a stranger to safety. Now, as a member of the Nevada National Guard ...
A woman embraces Greg Zanis by the Welcome to Las Vegas sign Tues. Oct. 1, 2019. Zanis placed 58 crosses near the Welcome to Las Vegas sign in honor of those that lost their lives during the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting.
Report: Man who brought crosses to Las Vegas after mass shooting has terminal cancer
April 25, 2020
By Ricardo Torres-Cortez
But because of the coronavirus pandemic, his loved ones can’t visit. So, the community is coming together for a final tribute ...
Metro officer fired for inaction in Strip mass shooting reinstated
March 13, 2020
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press
A veteran Las Vegas police officer who was fired for hesitating in a casino-hotel hallway in October 2017 while a gunman upstairs carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history has been ...
People visit the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019.
Healing Garden for Oct. 1 shooting victims to expand
Feb. 24, 2020
Associated Press
A sanctuary garden for those affected by the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting is expanding. The city of Las Vegas will be adding more features to the Healing Garden, which was created also as a place to ...
Senators: U.S. has released some Las Vegas shooting survivor funds
Jan. 27, 2020
Associated Press
Federal officials have released some of a $16.7 million grant to help survivors of the October 2017 mass shooting on the ...
In this Jan. 19, 2016, file photo, handguns are displayed at the Smith & Wesson booth at the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show in Las Vegas. The gun industry is gathering for its annual conference, in January 2020, amid a host of uncertainty: slumping gun sales, a public increasingly agitating for restrictions on access to firearms and a presidential campaign that threatens gun rights like perhaps no other time in modern American history.
Gun industry gathers in Vegas amid slumping sales, rising tensions
Jan. 20, 2020
By Lisa Marie Pane, Associated Press
Gun companies are gathering for their annual conference and trade show this week in Las Vegas at a pivotal moment for the industry amid slumping sales ...
Eminem
'When will it end?': Vegas shooting featured in Eminem video calling for gun reform
Jan. 17, 2020
By Ricardo Torres-Cortez
The disturbing and graphic video ends with a call to viewers, asking them to register to vote and “make your voice be heard and help change gun laws in America.”
Tennile Pereira, director of the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center, speaks on the evolution of the organization and how it continues to help the community heal, Mon. Sept. 16, 2019.
Vegas Strong Resiliency Center moving to new location
Jan. 2, 2020
By Kelcie Grega
The Vegas Strong Resiliency Center, which provides free resources to those impacted by the Oct. 1, 2017, Strip mass shooting, is moving to a new location. The new 4,700-square-foot center at ...
Metro Police officers pass by the front of the Tropicana hotel-casino after a mass shooting at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017.
Lombardo: Almost all upgrades from Strip shooting implemented
Dec. 30, 2019
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press
Metro Police have implemented almost all their self-identified upgrades stemming from a review of officers’ responses to the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history more than two years ago, the ...
Sue Ann Cornwell, a survivor of the Oct. 1 mass shooting, speaks during a Tree of Life lighting ceremony at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. Aaron Leifheit listens at right. This year's ceremony was dedicated to Kim Gervais. Gervais was injured in the Oct.1 mass shooting and passed away Nov. 1 of this year.
59th fatal victim of mass shooting is remembered at Las Vegas vigil
Nov. 26, 2019
By Ricardo Torres-Cortez
Kimberly Gervais loved country music and traveling. Attending the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas two years ago was supposed to be a weekend of enjoyment. ut a gunman opened fire from above at the 22,000 concertgoers, leaving a bullet lodged in Gervais’ spine ...
Douglas Haig takes questions from reporters at a news conference Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, in Chandler, Ariz. Haig spoke about his experience selling ammunition to the gunman who killed 58 people and injured hundreds more in the Oct. 1, 2017, Las Vegas shooting.
Arizona man guilty of making ammo sold to Las Vegas shooter
Nov. 19, 2019
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press
An Arizona man pleaded guilty Tuesday in a U.S. court in Nevada to illegally manufacturing tracer and armor-piercing bullets found in a hotel room where a gunman carried out the ...
Man charged in Strip shooting ammunition case changing plea
Nov. 13, 2019
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press
A man plans to change his not guilty plea in a federal case alleging he illegally manufactured bullets sold to the gunman who carried out the Las Vegas Strip ...