The worst mass shooting in United States history unfolded one year ago during the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival in Las Vegas, NV.
58 lives were stolen from us that night with more than 500 others injured.
Tonight a new remembrance will be dedicated to the victims and their families in Las Vegas and the entire strip will go dark at 10:01 p.m. followed by a reading of the victim's names at 10:05 p.m.
The country music community will observe a 58-second moment of silence today at 10:05 a.m. PT.
Thousands of music fans were gathered on the Strip for the Route 91 Harvest Festival, listening to Jason Aldean wrapping up the night's show. Stephen Paddock was holed up in a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino complex.
At 10:05 p.m. Paddock began firing down on the crowd. The next 10 minutes were a blur of fear and panic as victims tumbled while survivors scrambled to elude the onslaught.
The shooting stopped at 10:15. More than 1,000 rounds of ammunition had been fired. It would be more than an hour later that officers swarmed the room, finding Paddock dead on the floor of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, following a 10-month investigation, announced that authorities could not determine a motive for the carnage. The FBI is still trying to find one.
“A lot of the feeling among people is more, ‘Let’s move on,’” community activist Pauline Ng Lee said. “We don’t have a lot of long traditions here. You can see it with buildings. Casinos come up, casinos get knocked down. People tend to look forward, not back.”
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