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Route 91 Harvest Festival Shooting

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On the evening of Sunday, October 1, 2017, thousands of country music fans had gathered for the final night of the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in a festival grounds across the street from Mandalay Bay hotel-casino.

Just after 10 p.m. that night, shots started ringing out. 

A man, identified by Metro Police as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, opened fire on the crowd 400 feet below.

By the time the shooting was done - 11 minutes later - 58 people would be dead and more than 500 hurt in the worst mass shooting in modern American history.

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Metro Police: Fixing The Holes Found After Oct. 1 Massacre

Jul 30, 2019

No one has yet made sense of the October 2017 shooting that left 58 dead and injured about 850 people on the Las Vegas Strip. 

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Head Of Las Vegas FBI Says Lessons From Shooting Make Strip Safer

Mar 22, 2019

(Editor's note: This conversation originally aired March 5)

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Route 91 Shooting Resources

Nov 01, 2017

How to donate and reach out to those affected by the Route 91 Shooting.

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Suicides Elsewhere Raise Concerns For 2017 Strip Shooting Survivors

Apr 02, 2019

Three separate suicides thousands of miles from Nevada set alarm bells ringing in Las Vegas.

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In Excess, There is Hope

Nov 01, 2017

The idea was to drive the Strip from Sahara to the “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign and ponder the immensity of the Route 91 shooting in hopes of finding some sense, or insight.

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Community: How Should We Remember?

Nov 01, 2017

Temporary memorials will eventually lead to talk of something permanent. Then it will get complicated.

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Courage Amid Chaos

Nov 01, 2017

"Just our presence is comforting to them."

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Oct. 1 Survivors Traumatized By Recent Mass Shootings

Aug 06, 2019

The Oct.

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The Morning After

Nov 01, 2017

The national headlines about Las Vegas often amuse, bemuse, or outrage us.

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Community: ‘We Have to Tell the History’

Oct 01, 2018

At the Clark County Museum, cataloging the October 1 memorial objects is an exercise in institutional purpose — and simple humanity.

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Route 91 Hero Reunited With The Man She Saved

Oct 13, 2017

We’ve heard lots of stories of courage and heroism following the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.

Paloma Solamente is one of those heroes.

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Open topic: Is Strong Enough?

Mar 26, 2018

After October 1, we adopted a slogan. What we didn’t get was a conversation.

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How Should They Be Remembered?

Oct 19, 2017

No one in Las Vegas will forget what happened on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. 

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Ten Great Things About the Golden Knights’ First Season

Apr 26, 2018

#VegasStrong: Five days after October 1, Knights win opening home game of the season against the Arizona Coyotes.

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Angie Gomez and her boyfriend, Ethan Sanchez, were high school sweethearts. Gomez died on Sunday night.

58 Killed In Las Vegas: How The Victims Are Being Remembered

Oct 02, 2017

Teachers, a fisherman, stay-at-home moms, an off-duty police officer. Here's what we've learned about everyone who died in Sunday's massacre.

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Six Months After Horrific Shooting, Las Vegas Girds For A Long Haul

Mar 30, 2018

In a flash unspeakable violence changes a community forever.

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Elle Gargano, left, with her mother, Katie Gargano, at Spring Valley Hospital in Las Vegas.

After Las Vegas Massacre, Victims Search For Their Heroes Of The Night

Oct 12, 2017
Facebook pages have been set up to reunite people with the strangers who helped them. One victim's father says he'd like to "give that feeling that you really mattered to somebody. To us."
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Retired Metro Deputy Chief Says Criticism Of Oct. 1 Response Stings

Apr 02, 2018

Recently retired Metro Deputy Chief Matt McCarthy said it hurts when people accuse the department he served for 25 years of ineptitude or worse in connection with the Oct.

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Trauma Nurse At Sunrise: "It Was Horrific"

Oct 11, 2017

On the night of October 1,  Juste texted a friend who was at Sunrise. The answer that came back was, " There's  blood and bodies everywhere."

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Scheduling Coincidence Brings Memorial Experts To Las Vegas

Apr 19, 2018

Years ago, when the National Council on Public History booked Las Vegas for its 2018 annual meeting, it look

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At The Airport: The Mood Of Visitors

Oct 11, 2017

More than a week after the shooting in Las Vegas - State of Nevada producer Fred Wasser spent some time at McCarran Airport. Fred wanted to gauge the mood of visitors to our city.

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Questions Still Abound More Than A Week After Las Vegas Shooting

Oct 10, 2017
 
It’s been more than a week since a Mesquite man opened fire on a crowd of thousands at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. 
 

In the attack, 58 people

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EMT's Thought It Was an Easy Gig. Then the Shooting Started

Oct 11, 2017

 

Mike Glockner is the special events lead for Community Ambulance.

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‘Heartbroken, angry, and incredibly proud’

Oct 06, 2017

MGM CEO Jim Murren talks about the Route 91 shooting

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The Meaning Of Faith In The Wake Of Tragedy

Oct 06, 2017

In the wake of Sunday’s tragedy, many people in the community turn to faith for their own comfort and for support.

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Millions Donated To Victims -- Who Decides Where It Goes?

Oct 06, 2017

Kenneth Feinberg has some ideas. He's a lawyer who has administered victims' funds after 9/11, the Boston Marathon bombing & other tragedies.

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Reno Survivor Recounts Scene Of The Shooting

Oct 06, 2017

The mass shooting that took place Sunday night on the Las Vegas Strip has changed our city forever.

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A Solemn Scene On The Strip

Oct 05, 2017

Wednesday - three days after the tragic shooting on the Las Vegas Strip - people who ran for their lives, were able to pick up their cars from near the Route 91 Harvest festival site.

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Helping The Helpers: How First Responders Are Handling The Massacre

Oct 05, 2017

The massacre Sunday night on the festival grounds outside of Mandalay Bay on the Las Vegas Strip has been difficult for everyone in Las Vegas.

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A poem by Gregory Crosby

Oct 04, 2017

"Gregory Crosby Marked Himself Safe During the Violent Incident in Las Vegas, Nevada"

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A Remembrance: Cameron Robinson

Oct 05, 2017

Among the many killed in the massacre on the Strip Sunday night was a young man who worked for the Las Vegas City Attorney’s Office.

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All We Have

Nov 01, 2017

Serious gun law reform is unlikely in the wake of the Route 91 shooting. What else can we do? There are only imperfect choices.

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Stories Of Heroism Abound After Las Vegas Shooting

Oct 04, 2017
Stories of heroism continue to pour in following the shooting on Las Vegas Boulevard that killed 58 and injured more than 500.
 
Among them is the remarkable story of Taylor W
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The Brady Campaign Says Now Is The Time To Talk About Guns

Oct 04, 2017

The questions started coming – many from callers to this program – in the immediate aftermath of the shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival concert Sunday night:

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Prayer Vigils Provide Solace And Strength For Many

Oct 03, 2017

For many people going to a prayer vigil has helped them deal with the horror of Sunday night's shooting.

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‘We will come back from this’

Oct 03, 2017

Bittersweet political transcendence at a prayer vigil in Las Vegas

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Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman Inspired By The City We Live In

Oct 03, 2017

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman has been meeting with survivors, talking with law enforcement and giving interviews since the early hours of Monday morning, just hours after a gunman open fired on

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Photo Gallery: Scenes From The Shooting

Oct 03, 2017

A fun night of music on the Las Vegas Strip became the scene of one of the most horrific mass shootings in U.S. history.

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Tears And Prayers In The Wake Of The Massacre On The Las Vegas Strip

Oct 02, 2017
The Las Vegas Strip erupted in gunfire Sunday night as a man in a hotel room 32 floors up fired a high-powered weapon into a crowd of people at a music festival.
 
So far, 59
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Community, Visitors Rally Around Victims Of Mass Shooting

Oct 02, 2017

People from around the Las Vegas Valley have come forward with donations for the people injured in Sunday night’s attacks and for the family members who are coming to help them.

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Nevadans Rush To Donate Blood In Wake Of Mass Shooting On Strip

Oct 02, 2017

Thousands of Las Vegans waited in line for hours Monday to donate blood in the wake of the weekend mass shooting.

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Las Vegas Reacts To Horrific Mass Shooting

Oct 02, 2017
At least 59 people are dead and more than 527 injured on the Las Vegas Strip, after a gunman open fired on a crowd at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival.
 
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John L. Smith: Will Las Vegas Ever Be The Same?

Oct 24, 2017

Will Las Vegas ever be the same? Contributor John L. Smith weighs in. 

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Shooting Brings Efforts To Protect, Reintroduce Las Vegas Brand

Oct 25, 2017

Within minutes of the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the south Strip, the team that promotes the Las Vegas brand was already canceling ad buys and developing a crisis communication strategy.

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New York Times Analysis: A New Shooting Timeline

Oct 27, 2017

Yet another timeline of the October 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip has emerged, this time from a video analysis by staff at the New York Times.

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Titus Seeks New Ways To Combat Bump Stocks Used By Strip Shooter

Oct 31, 2017

Rep. Dina Titus is seeking tighter regulation of the bump stocks used by the Route 91 Harvest Festival gunman to give his weapon the firing speed of a machine gun.

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Las Vegas Blood Donations Dry Up

Nov 01, 2017

One month ago, Southern Nevadans set blood donation records in the wake of the Route 91 Harvest Festival shootings on Oct. 1.

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Can We Find A Motive Inside Stephen Paddock's Brain?

Nov 07, 2017

After he murdered 58 people on the Las Vegas Strip and injured hundreds more, Stephen Paddock shot himself.

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Planning For The Worst: How Emergency Services Fared In The Oct. 1 Shooting

Nov 17, 2017

During the last week of September, we talked to emergency managers from Clark County, Washoe County and the Cit

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FBI Continues Work To Discover What Motivated Strip Shooter

Nov 21, 2017

FBI Special Agent in Charge Aaron Rouse, who heads the bureau in Nevada, was getting ready for bed on Oct. 1 when he got a call about an active shooter at Mandalay Bay.

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Now The Hard Part: Who Gets October 1 Donations?

Dec 05, 2017

Money poured into a fund for victims of the October 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.

The hard part is deciding who gets the money.

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Gun Devices Used By Strip Shooter Become Target Of Class-Action Suit

Feb 19, 2018

Strip shooter Stephen Paddock modified his guns with bump stocks, devices that boosted their lethality by giving them the firing speed of automatic weapons when he killed 58 people on Oct. 1.

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Thumb Driver

Jul 24, 2018

Cabbie Andrew Gnatovich became well-known for his tweets about life on the Vegas streets, but October 1 pushed him to his character limit.

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Rescue + Reunion

Oct 01, 2018

Many kinds of heroes emerged on the night of October 1. A year later, victims and rescuers find themselves redefining heroism in post-tragedy Las Vegas.

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Bond Between Knights, Fans Forged From Tragedy

Oct 02, 2018

The pain of the October 1 shooting will stick with Nevadans, and victims from around the country, for many years to come.

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Reunions And Remembrances Of October 1 Tragedy

Oct 02, 2018

In the week following October 1, 2017, social media groups sprang up providing a place for survivors, victims, their families, first responders and staff

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Reflecting On "Vegas Strong" One Year Later

Oct 02, 2018

Should the slogan that popped up after the Oct. 1, 2017 shooting be retired?

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Clark County Coroner Remembers Oct. 1 Mass Shooting

Oct 01, 2018

One year ago, a city known for its revelry and neon charm was wounded in a way that has become all too familiar in this country – a mass shooting left 58 dead and hundreds more wounded.   

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Out-Of-Town Reporters Recount Complexity, Emotion Of October 1 Shooting

Oct 01, 2018

In the hours after the October 1 shootings, journalists from around the world were dispatched to Las Vegas.

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Las Vegas Shooting Anniversary Marked After Year Of Sorrow, Tears

Oct 01, 2018

The mass shooting of a year ago prompted an unprecedented outpouring of emotion in Southern Nevada.

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After Parkland And Las Vegas, Calls For Gun Control Continue

Jul 17, 2018

As the anniversary of the 1 October shooting gets closer, Las Vegas residents are still asking what can be done to reduce gun violence. 

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New Comic Book Explores Stories From Oct. 1 Shooting

May 31, 2018

Comic books have long been a place to retreat into other worlds, other minds for fantasy and fun.

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Documentary Explores Aftermath Of October First Shootings

Apr 23, 2018

It’s been more than six months since the October 1 shooting – but, for many, questions still linger about the way law enforcement and MGM Resorts International handled themselves as the shooting progressed, and in the intervening days, weeks, and months.

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Route 91 Survivors: 'Our Love Got Us Out Of There'

Apr 16, 2018

When Billy and Kimberly King went to the Route 91 Harvest Festival on Oct. 1, they expected a fun night of country music.

But a few hours later, Billy King was fighting for his life.

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Route 91 Hero: 'The Nightmares Are Still There'

Apr 09, 2018

It’s been six months since the Oct. 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.

But to Paloma Solamente, it seems like yesterday.

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RJ Wins First Amendment Decision on October 1 Autopsies

Mar 05, 2018

It’s a question that journalists have been contemplating in this era of mass shootings: in how much detail do we describe the wounds of the victims. What constitutes sensationalism?

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Florida Shooting A Stark Reminder to Metro, Las Vegas

Feb 20, 2018

Parkland, Florida is now part of a collection of communities around the country that have been home to a mass shooting. Las Vegas joined that collection in October.

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Las Vegas Strip Hosts Gun Industry Trade Show

Jan 25, 2018

After the 1 October shooting, should such shows remain in Las Vegas?

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'58 Random Acts of Kindness' Honors Shooting Victims

Dec 13, 2017

The number 58 wasn't very significant, even just a few months ago, but now it has a heavy meaning for Nevadans: It’s the number of people who were killed during the mass shooting on October 1.

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Metro To Remember Fallen Officer, Honor Oct. 1 Shooting Responders

Aug 29, 2018

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Foundation puts on the Best of the Badge gala each year to recognize officers’ bravery.

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Does MGM's Lawsuit Hurt Or Help?

Jul 18, 2018

The MGM is suing shooting victims, the headlines said.

And almost everyone took notice.

A casino/resort suing not just customers but victims of the horrific October 1 shooting?

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An October First Memorial Project: Where Are We Now?

May 01, 2018

Is Nevada creating an October First memorial?

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Wounds Slowly Healing Two Years After Las Vegas Mass Shooting

Oct 01, 2019

Two years ago, a lone gunman opened fire on a Las Vegas music festival, killing 58 and wounding hundreds. 

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