Mauricia Baca, left, of Get Outdoors Nevada, and Jasmine Freeman, special events administrator at the City of Las Vegas, lightʣandles for the victims killed in the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting as their names are read by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, not pictured, during a remembrance ceremony at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
The display at the Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, before the names of victims of the deadliest massacre in the nation’s history are read. (Shea Johnson / Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The display at the Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, before the names of victims of the deadliest massacre in the nation’s history are read. (Shea Johnson / Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman speaks before reading the names of the victims killed in the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting during a remembrance ceremony at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Mauricia Baca, left, of Get Outdoors Nevada, and Jasmine Freeman, special events administrator at the City of Las Vegas, light candles for the victims killed in the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting as their names are read by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman during a remembrance ceremony at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Family members and loved ones of the victims killed in the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting watch as their names are read by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and city spokesman David Riggleman and candles are lit during a remembrance ceremony at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Mauricia Baca, left, of Get Outdoors Nevada, and Jasmine Freeman, special events administrator at the City of Las Vegas, light candles for the victims killed in the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting as their names are read by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and city spokesman David Riggleman during a remembrance ceremony at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Mauricia Baca, center left, of Get Outdoors Nevada, and Jasmine Freeman,ʳpecial events administrator at the City of Las Vegas, lightʣandles for the victims killed in the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting as their names are read by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and city spokesman David Riggleman during a remembrance ceremony at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Mauricia Baca, left, of Get Outdoors Nevada, and Jasmine Freeman, special events administrator at the City of Las Vegas, light candles for the victims killed in the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting as their names are read by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and city spokesman David Riggleman during a remembrance ceremony at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Mauricia Baca, second from right, of Get Outdoors Nevada, and Jasmine Freeman,ʳpecial events administrator at the City of Las Vegas, lightʣandles for the victims killed in the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting as their names are read by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and city spokesman David Riggleman during a remembrance ceremony at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Mauricia Baca, left, of Get Outdoors Nevada, and Jasmine Freeman, special events administrator at the City of Las Vegas, light candles for the victims killed in the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting as their names are read by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and city spokesman David Riggleman during a remembrance ceremony at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
People watch as the names of the victims killed in the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting are read by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and city spokesman David Riggleman during a remembrance ceremony at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Mauricia Baca, left, of Get Outdoors Nevada, and Jasmine Freeman, special events administrator at the City of Las Vegas, light candles for the victims killed in the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting as their names are read by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and city spokesman David Riggleman during a remembrance ceremony at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
People watch as the names of the victims killed in the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting are read by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and city spokesman David Riggleman during a remembrance ceremony at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Family members and loved ones of the victims killed in the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting watch as their names are read by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and city spokesman David Riggleman and candles are lit during a remembrance ceremony at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Candles are lit after the names of the victims of the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting were read by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and city spokesman David Riggleman during a remembrance ceremony at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Chris Davis, father of Route 91 Harvest festival shooting victim Neysa Tonks, looks at the candles that were lit in memory of the victims of the shooting during a remembrance ceremony at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Braxton Tonks, son of Route 91 Harvest festival shooting victim Neysa Tonks, walks through the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden after candles were lit in memory of the victims of the shooting during a remembrance ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Rev. Bill Minson, chaplain for the Las Vegas field office of the United States Secret Service, walks through the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden after candles were lit in memory of the victims of the shooting during a remembrance ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and a city spokesman acknowledged, during a name-reading ceremony Thursday night, the 60 victims who died as a result of the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting three years ago.
Goodman noted early on in the remembrance ceremony that the two most recent victims who died in November and May — Kimberly Gervais, 57, and Samanta Arjune, 49 — “passed away as the result of this horrific massacre.”
But Goodman and city spokesman David Riggleman read only 58 names as part of the formal remembrance, in the order of 58 memorial trees planted in the garden — a bell tolling and a candle lit after each name.
“We’re here with you to revere the memory of each of them and how his or her life intertwined with family, dear friends and others who will never forget them,” Goodman said. “Tonight there is nothing but them.”
The ceremony in the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden, remembering the lives lost in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, was closed to the general public.
Only victims’ family members and some media were allowed inside the garden in order to follow social distancing guidelines. While attendance was capped at 50 people, roughly 30 more watched from outside the garden with some peering through a long black gate.
The ceremony was put on by the city and Get Outdoors Nevada at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden, starting at 10:05 p.m. — the exact time that a barrage of gunfire first rang out from a Mandalay Bay hotel room overlooking the country music festival on Oct. 1, 2017.
The ceremony marked the third year the mayor has read the names of the victims at the healing garden, located at 1015 S. Casino Center Blvd. in downtown Las Vegas.
