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Las Vegas Shooting

 
Las Vegas shooting victim: Lisa Romero-Muniz, New Mexico

A longtime employee of a New Mexico school district was among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Sunday.

Las Vegas Strip massacre will force hotels to rethink security

The deadliest shooting in U.S. history will force the nation’s hotel industry to rethink security procedures, but there may be little new they can do now to prevent such events.

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Las Vegas shooting victim: Angela Gomez, California

Angela “Angie” Gomez, a 2015 graduate of Riverside Polytechnic High School in Riverside, Calif., has been identified as one of the 59 people killed in the shooting a Route 91 Harvest music festival Sunday night in Las Vegas.

Experts see no long-term damage to Las Vegas tourism economy

The horror of the murderous attack in Las Vegas Sunday night was similar in many ways to the incident it supplanted as the worst mass shooting in history in the family tourism mecca of Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016.

 
Las Vegas shooting victim: Cameron Robinson, Utah

A city of Las Vegas employee was among those shot and killed at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival Sunday night.

UFC to donate $1M to Las Vegas shooting victims

UFC president Dana White said Monday that the organization will donate $1 million to families affected by Sunday’s mass shooting on the Strip. He also said Saturday’s UFC 216 card at T-Mobile Arena will go on as scheduled.

Weekend events in Southern Nevada considering whether to proceed

Security concerns heightened by the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip have prompted organizers of weekend events in Southern Nevada to consider whether to proceed as planned or opt for cancellation or postponement.

Las Vegas locals use Facebook to offer help after mass shooting

Facebook — the online social media platform often reviled lately as a tool of division — turned into a combination digital town square and coffee shop bulletin board Monday as Southern Nevadans made offers of help to strangers and locals affected by Sunday’s shootings.

Las Vegas-area hospitals like ‘war zones’ after Strip massacre

“From our patients’ wounds you could tell a high-powered weapon had been used,” said one trauma surgeon who spent five straight hours in surgery after Sunday night’s mass shooting.