Accounts released this week by the Metropolitan Police Department detail for the first time the heroic acts many officers performed while responding to the Las Vegas mass shooting that left 58 dead and hundreds more injured.
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Among hundreds of officer’s reports released this week, one stood out with its extraordinary detail and insight into what it was like to be an officer on duty the night of Oct. 1.
Las Vegas police officers who watched over the Stratosphere after the Oct. 1 shooting differ in their accounts of a woman’s random act of kindness nearly went awry.
A newly released report suggests that gunman Stephen Paddock and his girlfriend occasionally spent time apart in the months before the mass shooting on the Strip.
Records released Wednesday include the summary of an FBI interview with a police officer from Newport Beach, California, who was shot at the Route 91 Harvest festival.
Las Vegas police officer Cordell Hendrex, another officer and security guards were among the first to respond to the upper floors of Mandalay Bay while a gunman opened fire on a country music festival below.
Several people who worked at or near the Route 91 Harvest festival the night of the mass shooting later shared their stories in Spanish or English with Las Vegas police. Their stories were among records released Wednesday.
Days before his attack on a country music concert, the Oct. 1 shooter told a condo owner at The Ogden that he wanted to reserve a unit for himself and his wife.
A newly released document appears to detail country music star Jason Aldean’s account of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Strip.
Newly released reports provide the most detailed and wide-ranging picture yet of the massive law enforcement response to the Strip-wide chaos and confusion of Oct. 1.
The night of Oct. 1 at the Route 91 Harvest festival, Taylor Stovall, then 17 years old, was running with her friend from gunfire. Stovall had been shot in the arm, and her friend flagged down a man who was offering help and directing people to keep running.
In a statement released Wednesday by Las Vegas police, an emergency medical technician who was working the night of the mass shooting detailed how he became the victim of credit card fraud and attempted identity theft.
In a 46-page statement released Wednesday, Kristin Powers described in detail her efforts to save her husband’s life after the Oct. 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
The Las Vegas gunman’s behavior rattled a Mandalay Bay housekeeper days before he fired upon the crowd at a country music festival.
In loopy yet neat handwriting, the woman wrote detail after detail about what she saw the final night of the Route 91 Harvest festival.