Las Vegas Shows Heart of Gold for Victims and Families

A registered nurse from Tennessee. An off-duty Las Vegas police officer. A 35-yr-old Californian middle school teacher.

Details of the victims of Sunday nighttime's mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas began to emerge on Tuesday, 24 hours after at to the lowest degree 58 people were killed and hundreds more injured in the well-nigh deadly mass shooting in modern United States history.

Cameron Robinson. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Cameron Robinson.

Cameron Robinson

Cameron Robinson was a young city of Las Vegas employee, who was at the festival with his beau, Bobby Eardley, when the popping sounds started.

Eardley recalled on Tuesday, "And I just call back being actually upset – why would somebody set off firecrackers at a venue like this when shootings accept happened?"

After a 2nd round, Eardley decided it was time for them to move: "I call up seeing people sitting on the ground and wondering why they were sitting because they were going to get trampled. And I realized they were haemorrhage."

Eardley, 36, and Robinson, 28, had been together for 4 years after meeting on OkCupid; a yr ago Robinson moved in with Eardley in St George, Utah. Robinson was a records specialist for the urban center.

"Long before he came to work for the city he gave me his resume," recalled his boss, Las Vegas metropolis attorney Brad Jerbic, "and the first thing I remember noticing is that he got his bachelor's caste when he was twenty year old – that immediately got my attention."

When Jerbic hired him several years ago, his desk-bound concluded up being in the center of the office. "It was a perfect metaphor," Jerbic said. Robinson organized potlucks, brought nutrient to the office, ran games at the Christmas party.

With Robinson, "everything went upwardly a notch. If it was fun it was more than fun, if the records were existence processed efficiently it was more than efficiently."

Robinson's sister, Meghan Ervin, wrote on Facebook: "I was never suppose to say practiced good day to you lot little blood brother. You were suppose to take over the world ... I love you lot to the moon and dorsum."

What did Eardley love almost him?

"He's my other one-half. I'm the crazy, wing by the seat of your pants – he's the straight laced and level headed one ... And then many other things. His quirky little grin, his big teeth, his crooked sunglasses … so many things."

Dorene Anderson

A cocky-described "stay-at-home wife and mother", and hockey lover, Anderson had traveled to Las Vegas with her married man, and two daughters for the festival. In a Facebook post of a recent motion-picture show, daughter Stefanie reported "This is one of the last family photos we volition have… Sadly, my mom was one of the victims that did not brand it."

"You lot lit upward her world," one friend commented on the photo. "There was no terminate to her love for you and your sister and dad. She was by far the best person I've ever known."

Steve Berger

Berger was a male parent of 3 and a financial adviser in the Minneapolis Twin Cities. Friends said he had traveled to Vegas to celebrate his 44th altogether. "He was charismatic, full of energy and breathed life into every room. He was always so positive," his all-time friend Josh Decker told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "He was larger than life to me."

Family told the Los Angeles Times that Berger was the principal flagman of his children and spent his time off ferrying his children between school and sports practices, while also coaching youth basketball and football. "He was a devoted father. You couldn't inquire for a better male parent and a better human," his father said.

Berger and Decker were together when the shooting started, the newspaper reported. Later on the two and everyone around them got on the ground Decker recalled looking around for his friend and seeing him lying motionless and haemorrhage. "He was covered in his own blood," he said.

Candace Bowers

Bowers, a 40-yr-old mother of two older children, had adopted a two-year-old into her home just v months before beingness killed in Dominicus'due south attack. "She had a big eye. She was just a sweetheart. She would do anything for anybody," her aunt told the Los Angeles Times. The Garden Grove, California, woman worked as a waitress at a local Mimi'due south Cafe restaurant.

"Her express joy and her smiles and [she was] always happy and spoke from the heart and yous wanted the truth, you lot got it from Candace," a longtime friend, Patty Tran, told ABC Los Angeles.

"Candice left this globe doing what she loved, dancing to land music among loved ones," her family wrote on a GoFundMe campaign they launched to back up her children. "She will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her."

Denise Cohen.
Denise Cohen Photograph: AP

Denise Cohen

Cohen, 57, was in Las Vegas to celebrate the birthday of her boyfriend, Derrick Taylor, who also died in the assault. The Carpinteria, California, resident was a female parent to three boys. "We will miss her big grin, positive attitude and the way she loved to live life large," wrote her sister in law on a GoFundMe page.

Her friend Leana Orsua said she hoped Cohen didn't suffer. "I know she was at a happy place," she told NBC Bay Area. "She was dancing and singing, and I think that'due south what she'due south doing in sky."

Austin Davis.
Austin Davis Photograph: AP

Austin Davis

Davis, a 29-year-old pipe fitter from Riverside, California, was in Las Vegas for a "guys' trip" with Thomas Day, who too died in the attack. Family friends described Twenty-four hours, 56, equally something of a second father to Davis.

"If he knew [you lot], he loved you. That's but how he cared for people," wrote his friend Katelyn Hood on a GoFundMe folio ready upwards to assist his family. "Austin would refuse to permit y'all exist upset the slightest fleck in his presence. You honestly couldn't exist upset ... his smile was and then contagious."

Marker McManus, president of United Association, the spousal relationship to which Davis belonged, said: "We are now beyond stunned at the loss of one of our brothers."

Brian Fraser.
Brian Fraser Photograph: AP

Brian Fraser

Fraser, who worked as a sales manager at a mortgage company in Orange County, California, was a father of four, aged 4 through 25.

"He was the life of the party," said his widow, Stephanie, who was at the festival with him. "He ever had a smiling on his face. He loved to hug everybody, get into everybody'south bubble," she told Time magazine.

"'Here'southward the deal'... If you knew Brian, you have heard that come from his oral fissure numerous times," family wrote on a GoFundMe page set up upwardly earlier this week. "He had a way of proverb what needed to be said in only enough words."

Keri Galvan.
Keri Galvan Photo: AP

Keri Galvan

Galvan, a mother of iii young children, was in Las Vegas attending the country music festival with her husband and a grouping of friends. "Her days started and ended with doing everything in her ability to be a wonderful mother," Galvan'south sister wrote on a GoFundMe folio.

Later being struck by the gunfire, Galvan died in the artillery of her husband, Justin. According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, the two met when they were students at Simi Valley loftier school, though they didn't assemble until later, when Justin Galvan was in the US Marine Corps.

The couple married in Jamaica in 2011, and were merely a couple of weeks away from their sixth wedding ceremony.

Stacee Etcheber. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Stacee Etcheber

Stacee Etcheber

Etcheber was struck and killed while her husband, off-duty San Francisco police officeholder Vinnie Etcheber, tried to assistance conductor others to safety.

"He stood back, he stood dorsum to assist those victims that were shot and he stuck with them, he stuck with them all the mode to the hospital," officeholder Etcheber's blood brother Al told ABC San Francisco. When he returned to find his wife, everything was blocked off and she was unaccounted for.

"She leaves backside two adoring beautiful children and an amazing husband. Thanks to everyone for all the support in this past few days. Nosotros will dearly miss you lot," wrote Al Etcheber in a Facebook post.

Tara Roe Smith, a Canadian victim of Las Vegas shooting.
Tara Smith

Tara Smith

Smith, 34, was a mother of 2 from Alberta, Canada and worked every bit a professional model. "She was a beautiful soul. She was a wonderful mother and our family unit is going to miss her dearly," her aunt Val Rodger told the Toronto Star.

Her company, Sophia Models, also expressed their condolences. "She worked as a model for our bureau for over 10 years. She was always a friendly face and had a very caring spirit."

Jordyn Rivera. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017.
Jordyn Rivera

Jordyn Rivera

Rivera, 21, was a fourth-year pupil in a healthcare management program at Cal State San Bernardino, and friends described her as a warm, energetic person. In an email to students, university president Tomás Morales called her decease "a devastating loss for the entire CSUSB family".

"She passed away so young and she had everything going for her," wrote a family friend who set up a GoFundMe page on her family unit'due south behalf.

Carrie Barnette. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017.
Carrie Barnette

Carrie Barnette

Barnette was in Las Vegas jubilant a friend's 30th birthday, when she was struck with gunfire in the chest. Barnette, 34, worked on the culinary team at Disneyland in Anaheim and the visitor expressed condolences in a mail Tuesday. "Our thoughts are with her family, along with our support, during this incredibly difficult fourth dimension," the post read.

"She was a ray of sunshine," Destiny Calderon, a former coworker, told the Orange Canton Annals. "She always had a smiling. If you had a bad twenty-four hour period, she would lift you lot upward."

That's a sentiment numerous friends shared on her Facebook wall. "Your words would dry my tears, your laugh would make me grin," a friend wrote.

Rocio Guillen Rocha. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017.
Rocio Guillen Rocha

Rocio Guillen Rocha

A longtime bandage member at Disneyland who lived in Anaheim, Guillen Rocha gave birth to her fourth child, Austin, simply 6 weeks ago. "My centre breaks that you were taken from your babies far too before long," wrote a friend on a GoFundMe started by i of Guillen's cousins.

Fifty-fifty though Guillen Rocha was shot, it was reported she managed to climb a fence at the concert venue, but later died at the hospital.

Hannah Ahlers. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017.
Hannah Ahlers

Hannah Ahlers

A 34-year-one-time female parent of three, Hannah and her married man had come to the festival with three other couples. Dave Ahlers, Hannah'south father-in-police force, confirmed Mon evening to the Las Vegas Review Periodical that Hannah had been struck in the head by the gunfire.

"She was maybe one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen, with a heart to match," a friend told the Los Angeles Times. "She never came across with the diva mentality she easily could have had. She was a devoted female parent and wife."

The music festival was a destination for country music fans far and broad, and the reported deaths are likewise, from all over the US and Canada.

Sonny Melton. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Sonny Melton

Sonny Melton

Sonny Melton, 29, who lived in Big Sandy, Tennessee, and worked at a nearby infirmary, was the kickoff victim publicly identified. Family members confirmed to the news station WSMV that he was killed in the gunfire.

His married woman, Heather Melton, told WZTV that her husband had shielded her from bullets on the ground when the shooting began. "He saved my life and lost his," she said.

A friend of the couple told the Paris (Tennessee) Post-Intelligencer that the two had gotten married near a year ago.

"I desire everyone to know what a kindhearted loving man he was, but at this point I can barely breathe," Heather Melton wrote to USA Today.

The couple both worked at Henry County medical center in Tennessee, he every bit a registered nurse, she equally an orthopedic surgeon. "The thoughts and prayers of the entire HCMC family are with Sonny and Heather's families," the center's chief executive, Thomas Gee, said in a statement.

Jordan McIldoon. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Jordan McIldoon.

Jordan McIldoon

The Canadian Dissemination Corporation reported that a 23-year-onetime British Columbia man, Jordan McIldoon, was also amongst the expressionless, co-ordinate to his parents. Another concertgoer posted on Facebook on Sunday night that McIldoon had "died in [her] arms".

"We merely had i kid," McIldoon's parents told CBC. "We merely don't know what to exercise."

Bailey Schweitzer. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Bailey Schweitzer

Bailey Schweitzer

Local outlets in Bakersfield, California, accept confirmed with family unit members that 20-yr-erstwhile Bailey Schweitzer was killed in the attack. The Los Angeles Times reported that Schweitzer was a receptionist at Infinity Communications and Consulting, a software company in Bakersfield.

"Bailey was ever the ray of sunshine in our office on a cloudy day," Infinity's chief executive Fred Brakeman told the Times. "No one could maybe have a bad day when Bailey was around. If you have e'er chosen or visited our role, she was the perky one that helped direct y'all to the staff fellow member yous needed."

Dana Gardner. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Dana Gardner

Dana Gardner

San Bernardino County officials announced in an email to staff that Dana Gardner, 52, a longtime county employee, had died Monday morning from gunshot wounds sustained in the onslaught. 5 other canton employees who were also at the concert are said to have been injured.

Bob Dutton, the assessor-recorder-county clerk, told the Sun that Gardner, the deputy recorder, was a "become-to" person and a "dedicated public servant".

Jessica Klymchuk. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Jessica Klymchuk

Jessica Klymchuk

Jessica Klymchuk, an Edmonton, Alberta, mother of four, was as well confirmed dead in the shooting. In a statement, Alberta's premier, Rachel Notley, called the incident an "human activity of violence that is nearly beyond comprehension in a time of peace".

Klymchuk worked as an educational banana, librarian and bus commuter for St Stephen'southward Schoolhouse, according to the Edmonton Journal.

Tina Moore, who had worked with Klymchuk, said: "She did so much for her children. She went over and above for them."

Klymchuk was in Vegas with her fiance for the music festival.

Quinton Robbins. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Quinton Robbins

Quinton Robbins

The first Las Vegas resident identified as a victim was 20-year-old Quinton Robbins, a student at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

On Facebook, a woman who identified herself as Robbins's aunt wrote: "He was the virtually kind and loving soul. Anybody who met him loved him. His contagious laugh and grinning. He was truly an amazing person."

Rhonda LeRocque. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Rhonda LeRocque

Rhonda LeRocque

Rhonda LeRocque, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, was identified as a victim past relatives. Her family told Boston 25 News that she was with her husband, Jason, when she was shot in the dorsum of the head.

"[Her married man] thought she ducked and she didn't – she was caught in the back of the caput," Rhonda's half-sis Jennifer Zelenski said.

Denise Burditus, right. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Denise Burditus, right

Denise Burditus

Denise Burditus, of Martinsville, W Virginia, was also among the first victims to be identified.

Her husband, who was likewise at the concert, mourned her on Facebook. "It saddens me to say that I lost my wife of 32 years, a mother of two, soon to exist grandmother of five this evening in the Las Vegas shooting," Tony Burditus wrote. "Denise passed in my arms. I LOVE YOU Infant."

Sandy Casey. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Sandy Casey

Sandy Casey

The city of Manhattan Beach, California, lost Sandy Casey, 35, a heart school teacher. A local paper, the Daily Breeze, reported that Casey was a special-education teacher from Redondo Beach, and had attended the Route 91 Harvest festival with a group of beau teachers, principals and staff members from Manhattan Beach Unified, which shared news of her death in an email to parents.

Casey was engaged to Christopher Willemse, a special-education aide, co-ordinate to the Daily Cakewalk. He shared a photo of the couple on Facebook and wrote: "As I sit and mourn such a beautiful life gone also fast, all I can say is look upward and watch the birds fly high and costless today equally that's where I experience yous smiling down upon all of united states. I love yous infant girl! Honey you to pieces!"

Rachel Parker. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Rachel Parker

Rachael Parker

Also of Manhattan Embankment, Rachael Parker was a ten-year veteran civilian employee of its constabulary section.

Her mother, Robin Monter, told KXLY, a TV news station in Spokane, that Parker was "vivid and had a heart of gilded". She also said her daughter volunteered with the elderly and the homeless.

Angela Gomez. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Angela Gomez

Angela Gomez

A 2022 graduate of Riverside Polytechnic high school in Riverside, California, Angela Gomez was identified by the Riverside Unified school district as i of the victims, co-ordinate to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

On Monday, a Facebook post read: "It is with heavy hearts that we inform yous that one of the victims of the Las Vegas shooting tragedy was a 2022 graduate of Riverside Poly High School."

The high school's staff described Gomez every bit "fun-loving immature lady with a great sense of humor" who had a "warm middle and loving spirit".

Gomez, a cheerleader in high school, was described by her onetime English teacher and cheer coach, Lupe Avila, as a "wonderful young adult female who had her whole life ahead of her".

Charleston Hartfield. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Charleston Hartfield

Charleston Hartfield

An off-duty Las Vegas police officer and military veteran named Charleston Hartfield was identified by friends equally a victim, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

"I don't know a better man than Charles," said Troy Rhett, who said he'd been friends with Hartfield for viii years. "They say it'due south ever the practiced ones we lose early. In that location's no truer statement than that with Charles."

Stan Rex, who wrote "RIP Brother" on Hartfield's Facebook page, told the Review-Journal that Hartfield was "one of the nicest guys ever" and would be remembered every bit "the virtually true-blue American guy I've ever met".

Adrian Murfitt. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Adrian Murfitt

Adrian Murfitt

A close friend of Adrian Murfitt watched as medics tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate him, the New York Times reported.

Murfitt, 35, was a commercial salmon fisherman in his home state of Alaska. He loved playing hockey, could set nearly anything mechanical, and was devoted to his dog, Paxson, a Western Siberian Laika.

After working long hours throughout the summer, he and two other childhood friends booked tickets for the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, his sister, Shannon Gothard, told the Times.

Murfitt was with his friend, Brian MacKinnon, when shooting broke out, Gothard told the Times.

"He was just having a good time, enjoying himself and got shot in the neck," she said of her blood brother. A woman continuing next to Murfitt was shot in the head, MacKinnon told the family.

He watched equally medics tried to resuscitate Murfitt, though the medics told MacKinnon to exit the scene for his own safety.

Susan Smith. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Susan Smith

Susan Smith

Susan Smith, 53, was a popular office director at an elementary school in Simi Valley, Calif. She had two children.

Her father, Tom Rementer, told the New York Times that his daughter was a "wonderful person".

Smith had worked at the Vista Unproblematic School in Simi Valley, California, for three years and the school district for 16 years, a spokesperson for the school district told ABC News.

She had been attention the festival with two friends, who both survived.

Lisa Romero-Muniz. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Lisa Romero-Muniz

Lisa Romero-Muniz

Lisa Romero-Muniz, a high schoolhouse secretary from Gallup, New United mexican states, was an "incredible loving and sincere friend, mentor and advocate for students", the Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools interim superintendent, Mike Hyatt, said in a argument.

"Every bit a colleague, she was as well approachable, kind and considerate of all those she worked with," he said.

A wife, mother, and grandmother, Romero-Muniz had been in Las Vegas with her husband to see the country music vocaliser Jason Aldean for their wedding ceremony.

"She was across excited," said Rosie Fernandez, her friend and supervisor at the high schoolhouse where they worked told the New York Times.

"For her husband to think her anniversary and do all of that, this was a big thing for her."

John Phippen. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017.
John Phippen

John Phippen

John Phippen of Santa Clarita, California, was with his son, Travis, at the country music festival in Las Vegas when he was struck by a bullet in the lower dorsum, Reuters said.

Travis, an emergency medical technician, carried his father to a car that took them to Sunrise Infirmary and Medical Centre, where the elder Phippen died from his injuries.

"He was my all-time friend," Travis told the Los Angeles Times. "He never did annihilation wrong to anybody. He was e'er kind and gentle. He was the biggest teddy comport I knew."

In the chaotic scene, Travis had been shot in the arm but didn't realise it until he arrived at the infirmary. He is staying with family unit in the Las Vegas area until the Clark County coroner releases his male parent's body.

A GoFundMe page set up by a neighbor described Phippen as having "a heart that was larger than life and a personality to lucifer".

Chris Roybal. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017
Chris Roybal

Chris Roybal

Roybal, 28, was a United states military veteran who served in Afghanistan. He was in Las Vegas celebrating his birthday with with his mother, who survived, ABC News reported.

In a Facebook post from July, Roybal described what it was similar to come nether gunfire during combat.

"I remember that starting time day, not sure how to feel. It was never fright, to be honest, mass defoliation. Sensory overload … followed by the nearly amount of natural adrenaline that could never be duplicated through a needle," he wrote.

"Unfortunately, as the fights continue and as they as increase in numbers and violence, that excitement fades and the acrimony is all that's left.

"The anger stays, long after your friends have died, the lives you've taken are cached and your boots are placed neatly in a box in some storage unit.

"Notwithstanding covered in the dirt yous've refused to wash off for fear of forgetting the most raw emotions you every bit a human being will ever experience once again.

"What'due south it similar to be shot at? It's a nightmare no amount of drugs, no amount of therapy and no corporeality of drunk talks with your war veteran buddies will ever be able to escape."

Thomas Allen Day Jr, a victim of Las Vegas shooting. facebook photo
Thomas Allen Day Jr

Thomas Mean solar day Jr

The Los Angeles Times reported that Thomas Day Jr was a 54-twelvemonth-sometime domicile builder from Riverside, California.

He went to the festival with his four children, who are all in their 20s and 30s. Day's father told the LA Times that Day'southward children were "crushed."

"He was the best dad," Day Sr said. "That's why the kids were with him."

Neysa Tonks. A victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting on 2 October 2017.
Neysa Tonks

Neysa Tonks

Tonks was a female parent of three who lived and worked in Las Vegas. "She was a very prissy woman who was full of life and energy," her old church building counselor Tracy Downey told the Las Vegas Review Journal.

After word of her death, Tonk's employer, Technologent, began a GoFundMe folio for her family unit "in their hr of need". Tonks "has been a low-cal to anybody she's touched" one friend wrote on GoFundMe. "The earth volition non exist the same without her. We must carry on in her honor. Dearest and prayers to her family!"

Friends flooded the fundraising page with photos, of them together and captions like "you made me smiling and always knew how to savour life". She was 46.

Jenny Parks, a victim of Las Vegas shooting
Jenny Parks

Jenny Parks

A kindergarten teacher and female parent of two, Parks lived in Lancaster, California with her husband Bobby, who sustained a non-fatal gunshot wound in the arm Sunday. Family told People Magazine that Parks had merely earned her principal's in pedagogy before this year and was in the process planning her husband's 40th birthday party.

Jenny was "admittedly cute and very intelligent, had a wonderful sense of humour and was so kind", Bobby'due south uncle told the magazine.

Her husband's Facebook folio shows a smile family unit at Dodgers games and on vacation. "Smashing picture of such an amazing family!" 1 friend wrote.

Christiana Duarte, a victim of Las Vegas shooting
Christiana Duarte

Christiana Duarte

Christiana Duarte, 22, had gone to the country music festival with her brother's girlfriend, Ariel Romero. Although both women were shot, Romero was expected to recover later having undergone surgery, family friend Danette Meyers told the New York Times.

"I can't tell you how this has hit all of us," she said. "This is simply unbelievable. This senseless, fierce act is merely killing us all."

Victor Link. Las Vegas mass shooting victim
Victor Link

Victor Link

Victor Link, from Orange County, California, died after taking a bullet to the chest.

Victor'south male parent, Loyd Link, 52, who worked in the financial services industry and lived with his partner, Lynne Gonzales, told the New York Times: "Rob, his best friend, who is a fireman and a paramedic, picked my son up and carried him to a safer place and tried to resuscitate him," Loyd said. "Only information technology didn't happen."

Jack Beaton, Las Vegas mass shooting victim
Jack Beaton

Jack Beaton

Beaton died while shielding his married woman, Laurie, from gunfire, his family told the New York Times. His father-in-law, Jerry Cook, said Beaton covered his wife'southward body with his own, and was hit. "He told her he loved her," Melt said. "Laurie could tell he was slipping. She told him she loved him and she would run across him in heaven."

Beaton'southward son, Jake, paid tribute to his male parent on Facebook. "Lost my all-time friend," he wrote. "I love you and so much more than you could e'er imagine. Please picket over our family unit. You will forever be remembered as our hero!"

Melissa Ramirez, a victim of Las Vegas shooting
Melissa Ramirez

Melissa Ramirez

The daughter of Mexican immigrants who became American citizens, Melissa Ramirez, 26, had recently received a promotion at the machine insurance visitor where she worked, her cousin, Fabiola Farnetti, told the New York Times. She added: "She always helped her parents, and just wanted to be at that place."

The family had held out hope that she had survived the shooting, merely her father identified her remains at the Las Vegas morgue early on Tuesday, the NYT reported.

Heather Alvarado, a victim of Las Vegas shooting
Heather Alvarado

Heather Alvarado

Heather Alvarado, 35, was described equally a wife, mother, sister, friend, and "so much more", co-ordinate to a GoFundMe page. The page reportedly said that Alvarado was "ever the beginning to help out" and "anyone she comes across she makes them feel like family unit."

Alvarado had travelled with her family to attend the concert in Las Vegas, and the police said she died after being injured in the shooting. "It is with heavy hearts that we acknowledge the passing of Heather Warino Alvarado, wife of Cedar City firefighter Albert Alvarado," Sergeant Jerry Womack, spokesman for the police section in Cedar City, Utah, said in a statement.

Kurt Von Tillow, a victim of Las Vegas shooting
Kurt Von Tillow

Kurt Von Tillow

Kurt Von Tillow, 55, had travelled to Las Vegas for the concert with his family members and they were together when the attack occurred. Von Tillow's wife and girl escaped unharmed but his sister was shot in the thigh and his niece in the ankle, his brother-in-police Mark Carson said. The NYT said both were expected to recover.

Von Tillow's wife told her family members she was herded out of the surface area by the authorities amidst the chaos of the shooting scene, Carson told the New York Times. "That was probably the hardest part for her – having to go out him at that place."

Carson described Von Tillow equally being "the most patriotic person you've ever met" and told the NYT: "Guarantee you lot, he's covered in red, white and blueish correct at present, with a Coors Light in his hand, grin with his family and listening to some music."

Andrea Castilla, a victim of Las Vegas shooting
Andrea Castilla

Andrea Castilla

Andrea Castilla, 28, was visiting her younger sister, Athena, in Las Vegas for her altogether when the attack took place, said the Las Vegas Review-Periodical. The Review-Journal said her death was even more painful as her young man was intending to propose to her. Athena said: "I told him, 'I promise you knew she would say yes in a heartbeat.'"

Castilla wanted to make those afflicted with illnesses feel cute. For Castilla, from Huntington Beach, California, makeup was more than but a job for her. She told her blood brother that she wanted to serve cancer patients with her talents. The aforementioned disease had taken her mother's life when she was a teenager, reported the Review-Journal.

"That's what made her really happy. Making people feel beautiful," Athena told the Review-Journal. "She just had such a not bad outlook on life."

Lisa Patterson, a victim of Las Vegas shooting
Lisa Patterson

Lisa Patterson

Lisa Patterson, a Californian mother of three, was a keen person who was agile in church, her husband of over thirty years, Robert Patterson said. He added that they loved coming to Las Vegas. "We liked the atmosphere of Vegas, so a lot of times when nosotros took a vacation, information technology was to Las Vegas," he said.

Patterson was not with his wife when the attack occurred, said the Review-Journal, and came to Las Vegas to discover his wife after the incident happened. While his two older children came with him, he said his youngest eight-year-old girl stayed dwelling. Patterson said he wanted to be the one to tell his girl her mother is dead.

A friend of Lisa Patterson, Andy Tamilin, said: "Lisa had an infectious free energy and fierce beloved for her family, and we are across heartbroken for Bob and their three kids." He added that Patterson and her husband "spent hours donating their fourth dimension and energy to help the girls of our customs".

Bill Wolfe Jr.
Nib Wolfe Jr.

Bill Wolfe Jr

Pennsylvania youth sports coach Pecker Wolfe Jr, a 42-yr-erstwhile father of two, was jubilant his 20th ceremony with his married woman, Robyn, when the shooting happened, said the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Wolfe was a Little League coach and coached the Shippensburg youth wrestling plan for children in kindergarten through sixth class, Tony Yianiello, head jitney of the Shippensburg high schoolhouse's varsity wrestling team, told the Review-Journal. "Some people just live in the community, Beak lived for his customs," Yianiello said.

Michelle Vo a victim of Las Vegas shooting
Michelle Vo.

Michelle Vo

Michelle Vo, 32, of Eagle Rock, California, who worked in financial services for the Pasadena branch of New York Life Insurance Co, was remembered on Tuesday in the US House of Representatives.

Vo, who was a native of San Jose, California, was described as "an ambitious hard worker, known for her charisma and fierce independence" in a statement read on the House floor past representative Jimmy Gomez.

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Derrick 'Bo' Taylor

Derrick Taylor

Derrick "Bo" Taylor, 52, was a Californian correctional lieutenant who led inmates to fight wildfires, said the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He was a 29-year veteran of the California department of corrections and rehabilitation, and celebrated his most recent altogether on 25 September, a department spokesman, Bill Sessa said.

It added that Taylor led a staff of nine, and together they were responsible for more 100 inmates in coordination with Cal Fire, the country'south firefighting arm.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/02/las-vegas-victims-named-full-list

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