Adrian Murfitt, 35, is among the 59 people killed by the gunman who rained bullets onto Route 91 Harvest festival country music concert goers Sunday night. His sister, Shannon Gothard, said her brother died in his friend’s arms. A commercial fisherman, Murfitt ended his months-long fishing season in August and returned home to Anchorage, Alaska, ready for a vacation. “He had a really successful season this year and decided to go to Vegas to the concert to celebrate and treat himself,” Gothard said. Murfitt worked his first season as a commercial fisherman in high scHomhool when a teacher offered to bring him along. Gothard said she was amazed by how slim, muscular and tan the months on the boat made him.
Southern California native Melissa Ramirez is among the victims killed in Sunday’s shooting at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, her alma mater confirmed on Tuesday. Ramirez graduated from California State University, Bakersfield, in 2014, with a degree in business administration. According to Ramirez’s Facebook page, which had been turned into a remembrance page, she was from Littlerock, California, and lived in North Hollywood.
Brian Fraser, who lived in Pomona, California, was among those killed Sunday night in the mass shooting attack at the Route 91 Harvest county music festival. Fraser worked at Greenpath, a lending partner for Southern California real estate agents. Fraser was also a coach with The Duncan Group, a mortgage sales training and consulting company. Willy Escobar knew Brian Fraser for about a year. “He was a very, very giving guy. He always spoke about his family, and always had time to help out. He was just a very selfless kind of person,” Escobar told the Review-Journal Tuesday.
Christiana Duarte, a recent University of Arizona graduate is among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, a family friend said Tuesday. Duarte, 22, was about to start a marketing job with the Los Angeles Kings hockey team “She’s such a value to this world, and this is just a tremendous loss. The things she could have accomplished,” Danette Meyers said. Duarte was the daughter of L.A. County Deputy District Attorney Michael Duarte and sister of Chicago White Sox minor league baseball player Mikey Duarte.
Steve Berger was in Las Vegas celebrating his 44th birthday, which was Saturday, when he was killed in the attack at the Route 91 Harvest music festival Sunday. Steve Berger was betting on the Wisconsin-Northwestern football game the last time his father, Richard, spoke with him. The Wisconsin native had always been a Badgers fan. “I said ‘Steve, be careful,’” Richard Berger said Tuesday. “That’s the last time I ever talked to him.” “He was so devoted to his family and his children,” Berger said. Steve Berger loved to work, his father said, but was an avid fisherman.
Dorene Anderson traveled to the Route 91 Harvest country music festival from Anchorage, Alaska. The 49-year-old was one of the concertgoers who was killed in the shooting Sunday night. In a Facebook posting, the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation — for which Anderson’s husband, John, works as research and rural development director — shared a message from her family “Due to this horrific and terrible situation, our family is dealing with a great loss. She (Dorene) was the most amazing wife, mother and person this world ever had. “
Heather Warino Alvarado, a 35-year-old mother of three, is among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Alvarado lived in Cedar City, Utah and came to Las Vegas to attend the three-day festival with family. Her husband, firefighter Albert Alvarado, released a statement through the Cedar City Police Department said that the couple loved traveling with her children “She always saw the good in others,” the statement read. “She spent her whole life serving others in her family and community”
A brief explanation of the timeline of the Las Vegas Mass Shooting at the Route 91 Country Music Festival.
Video taken by Cori Langdon at Mandalay Bay while driving away from the shooting and picking up passengers.
Video taken by Cori Langdon at Mandalay Bay when the shooting began at the Route 91 Country Music Festival.
A police dispatch call saying that one suspect is down on the 32nd floor on the Mandalay Bay in room 135.
Jordan McIldoon of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, was five days shy of his 24th birthday when he was killed in the attack at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. His parents Alan and Angela McIldoon, described Jordan as a “compassionate young man” who lived a life “full of adventures” in a statement released to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. McIldoon also loved country music, and he was rarely seen without his cowboy boots, the statement read. He was also a month shy of finishing his heavy-duty mechanic apprenticeship.
Jordyn Rivera, 21, of La Verne, California, is among the victims killed at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas. Rivera was a fourth-year student in the health care management program at California State University, San Bernardino. She was also a member of CSUSB’s chapter of Eta Sigma Gamma, the national health education honor society. Mike Schrader, a family friend, said, “The Rivera family is amazing, and I’m numb.”
Dana Gardner, a longtime San Bernardino County government employee is among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival Sunday. Gardner, 52, was a deputy recorder and worked for the county for 26 years, county spokesman David Wert said. At least four of her coworkers, including a sergeant in the sheriff’s office and a fire department employee, were wounded in the attack, Wert said.
Christopher Roybal, A Navy combat veteran who had served multiple tours in Afghanistan is among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival Sunday. Roybal, 28, died in Las Vegas just a few days shy of his birthday, said David Harman, owner of the gym that Roybal managed. Roybal moved to Colorado Springs early this year when Harman opened a new Crunch Fitness location. He worked for the company about three years. “The reason we hired him on was his discipline and his work ethic,” Harman said. “He wasn’t somebody who reported problems. He solved them.”
Manhattan Beach Police Department records technician Rachael Parker was among those shot and killed during the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Sunday. Parker, 33, died at a Las Vegas hospital, department spokeswoman Kristie Colombo wrote in an email. She was employed with the department for 10 years. Another department employee, an unidentified police officer, was shot and suffered minor injuries, Colombo wrote.
Hannah Ahlers, a 34-year-old mother of three from Murrietta, California, was one of the 59 victims killed after a gunman open fired on a crowded country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. Ahlers had come to Las Vegas for the festival with her husband, Brian, and three other couples. Hannah and Brian had three children, ages 3, 11 and 14, and her father-in-law, Dave Ahlers, described her as a “loving, caring and devoted mother” Dave said Hannah was always the person who would go out of her way to help family and friends dealing with issues, saying she was a “young Mary Tyler Moore.”
Charleston Hartfield, an off-duty Las Vegas police officer and recently published author of a memoir about life on the force, was killed Sunday night in the mass shooting on the Strip. Hartfield, a 34-year-old military veteran known as Charles, Chucky or “ChuckyHart,” also coached youth football Hartfield was a sergeant 1st class in the Nevada Army National Guard, assigned to the 100th Quartermaster Company, based in Las Vegas. Brig. Gen. William Burks, adjutant general of the Nevada National Guard, called him “the epitome of a citizen-soldier.”
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reported at least 59 dead, more than 525 injured. Police found 23 guns in the shooter’s Mandalay Bay hotel room, 19 more in his Mesquite residence. Blood donations centers have asked those wishing to donate to wait until Tuesday afternoon at the soonest. Metro is still investigating any potential motives the shooter might have had.
About 50 people, mostly airmen, gathered in a chapel on Nellis Air Force Base for a candlelight vigil Monday in the aftermath of Sunday night’s massacre.
Light peered through stained glass windows and the sound of fighter jets occasionally buzzed overhead as Lt. Col. Dwayne Jones addressed the congregation.
Jones said his main message was to find positivity and not let evil overcome good.