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May 6, 2024

Vegas Mass Shooting

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson, center, speaks alongside Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., left, and Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer during a press conference for "The New Norm: Mass Shootings in America," a summit held by Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, at the Sahara in Las Vegas on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019.
On a mission to curb mass shootings, prosecutors converge on Las Vegas
Oct. 5, 2019
Had the Oct. 1 gunman not taken his life along with the 58 innocent ones, his trial would have been lengthy, costly and especially painful for those injured, the fatal victims’ families and the rest of the survivors ...
People visit a memorial garden for victims of a mass shooting in Las Vegas, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, in Las Vegas. Two years after a shooter rained gunfire on country music fans from a high-rise Las Vegas hotel, MGM Resorts International reached a settlement that could pay up to $800 million to families of the 58 people who died and hundreds of others who were injured, attorneys said Thursday.
Las Vegas shooting payouts a ‘cold mathematical calculation’
Oct. 4, 2019
They may have been united by a love for country music, but the folks gunned down two years ago at a Las Vegas concert will not be seen as equals when up to $800 million is paid out from a legal settlement ...
People visit a memorial garden for victims of a mass shooting in Las Vegas, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, in Las Vegas.
MGM Resorts settles Vegas shooting lawsuits for up to $800M
Oct. 3, 2019
Two years after a shooter rained gunfire on country music fans from a high-rise Las Vegas hotel, MGM Resorts International reached a settlement that could pay up to $800 million to families of the 58 people who died and hundreds of others who were injured, attorneys ...
A new park bench is unveiled at Craig Ranch Regional Park to honor the victims of the Route 91 festival shooting during the second-year anniversary, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019.
Memorial unveiled at North Las Vegas park to honor Oct. 1 victims
Oct. 1, 2019
The steel structure at Craig Ranch Regional Park features carved images of the Las Vegas Strip skyline. The words “North Las Vegas Strong” figure prominently in the design. Attendees, many of whom had come from a sunrise ceremony in downtown Las Vegas ...
Families and friends of shooting victims attend a 1 October Sunrise Remembrance ceremony at the Clark County Government Center Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. The ceremony marked the second anniversary of the Oct. 1, 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
A ‘horrific nightmare’: Families remember Oct. 1 tragedy
Oct. 1, 2019
No day will ever be worse than Oct. 1. Not for Joe Robbins. “For me, no anniversary is more terrible than the one that marks the death of my son,” Robbins said today at a sunrise ceremony to remember the victims of the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting that left ...
Two years of every mass shooting in the US
Oct. 1, 2019
From Oct. 1, 2017, to Sept. 30, 2019, 723 mass shootings — an incident involving multiple victims of predominantly firearm violence — have taken place in the United States. Of those 723 tragedies, 54 of the shootings …
Leilani Tauiliili Holmes is shown in her Las Vegas home Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Her son, David, was shot and killed by his roommate in August.
Firearm-related deaths extend well beyond mass shootings
Oct. 1, 2019
Although mass shootings receive the most attention, they only account for a small fraction of deaths caused by guns nationwide. That holds true in Las Vegas. In 2018, the year after the mass shooting, 450 people in Clark County were killed by guns …
Visitors on Labor Day view candles, flowers, posters and other memorial items left in the area surrounding a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, where a shooter gunned down 22 victims on Aug. 3, 2019.
How Las Vegas helped El Paso heal after its familiar tragedy
Oct. 1, 2019
When 22 people in the border city of El Paso, Texas, were gunned down at a neighborhood Walmart, allegedly by a gunman who targeted Mexicans, Clark County officials …
Behavioral health coordinator Terri Keener and Tennile Pereira, director of the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center, speak on the evolution of the organization and how it continues to help the community heal, Mon. Sept. 16, 2019.
'Events of that night don’t just go away': Oct. 1 survivors still leaning on Resiliency Center
Oct. 1, 2019
Meghan Earley loves her retired life in Laughlin. She often goes out to lunch with friends, participates in trivia nights and takes monthly trips to Sunset Station in Henderson and Springs Preserve in Las Vegas with other members of her senior center. But Earley’s ...
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo discusses an after-action report Wednesday, July 10, 2019, about the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Sheriff discusses steps taken to prevent another mass shooting in Las Vegas
Sept. 30, 2019
After most every mass shooting, the public is introduced to a police chief or county sheriff on whose watch the tragedy occurred. Before the Las Vegas massacre, it was an occurrence after killings on campuses, a movie theater, a church and a club that ...
Assemblywoman Sandra Jauregui, D-Las Vegas, proponent of gun control legislation, poses for a portrait at Bottega Exchange in Las Vegas on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019.
Festival-going legislator sparks change in gun laws
Sept. 29, 2019
Gun control, Assemblywoman Sandra Jauregui said, was always a priority for her, but after Oct. 1, 2017, it became her No. 1 issue. In the first legislative session after the tragedy …
Oct. 1 survivor Leslie Collis poses for a photo at the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019.
'It’s a wound': Survivors still struggle two years after Las Vegas shooting
Sept. 29, 2019
Just after the two-year anniversary of the day that irrevocably changed Leslie Collis’ life, the native Las Vegan will say goodbye to the city she has called home for 15 years. Traumatized by what she saw and lived through while attending the Route 91 Harvest festival ...
Credit union donating UNLV football tickets for Oct. 1 shooting survivors
Sept. 19, 2019
America First Credit Union will donate 300 UNLV football tickets to survivors of the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip. The credit union will donate tickets for UNLV’s Oct. 5 game ...
This October 2017 photo shows the interior of Stephen Paddock's 32nd floor room of Mandalay Bay after the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting.
High-capacity magazines get new scrutiny as Congress returns
Sept. 3, 2019
Lawmakers around the country are making a renewed push to ban high-capacity magazines that gunmen have used in many recent massacres, allowing them to inflict mass casualties ...
The Vegas Strong Resiliency Center introduced an exhibit of hand-made quilts donated by quilters from Las Vegas and around the world for victims of 1 October on Monday, June 25, 2018, in the Rotunda on the first floor of the Clark County Government Center in downtown Las Vegas.
Three mass shootings in one week spur Vegas groups to increase survivor resources
Aug. 5, 2019
In light of the three mass shootings in the last week, Las Vegas-area agencies are offering additional resources to those still feeling the effects of the Oct. 1 mass shooting ...