Las Vegas is still mourning six years after the deadliest mass shooting in US history
The Las Vegas Area, a Shock Wave Revealed Wednesday by a Three-Body Shooting at the University of Nevada
The Las Vegas area. Three people were shot to death and a fourth critically wounded Wednesday in an attack at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas that sent shock waves through a city still scarred by the deaths of 60 people in a 2017 shooting only a few miles away on the famous Strip. The suspected shooter was found dead.
The attack at about 11:45 a.m. sent police swarming onto the campus while students and professors barricaded themselves inside classrooms and dorm rooms.
40 minutes after the first report of an active shooter, authorities gave the all-clear. Adam, the university police official, said the suspect was dead when the officers found him. It wasn’t immediately clear how the suspect died.
Matin said it was terrifying and that he couldn’t explain it. “I was trying to hold it together for my students and not cry, but it was something I never want to relive again.”
Martin said she had been texting her friends to let them know a suspect had been arrested. When another professor came to the room and told everyone to evacuate, they joined dozens of others rushing out of the building. Martin had her students pile into her car and drove them off campus.
The Campus Shooting at UNLV on the Las Vegas Strip on Oct. 1, 2017: Jordan Eckermann, 24, and Rachel Weese
UNLV’s 332-acre campus is less than 4 miles from the Mandalay Bay hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, where a 64-year-old gunman opened fire from a hotel window on Oct. 1, 2017, targeting a crowd of thousands attending the open-air country music concert below.
Jordan Eckermann, 25, said he was in his business law class in a second-floor classroom when he heard a loud bang that he thought came from a neighboring music class.
The students went to their feet after the piercing alarm went off. Some people ran from the room in panic while others listened to the professor and obeyed his instructions to stay calm, said Eckermann, who walked out of the room while a law enforcement officer held a long gun.
Less than 2 miles from the Las Vegas Strip is UNLV’s 332-acre campus. it wasn’t immediately clear how many of the 30,000 students were on campus.
In response to the campus shootings, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop of all flights coming into Harry Reid International Airport.
UNLV’s basketball game at the University of Dayton, Ohio, was canceled on Wednesday night because of the Las Vegas shooting.
Rachel Weese, who works as a research coordinator at the school, shared the #VegasStrong hashtag alongside a post explaining that Wednesday’s shooting marked the third time she has had to hide in a locked classroom because of the threat of an active shooter.
She said that the potential shooters were disarmed before anyone was injured in the first two incidents, but that it feels like too many.
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That hashtag, which trended in the days following 2017’s shooting, once again was among the most shared phrases on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday.
The Park MGM Las Vegas hotel was one of several resorts along the Vegas strip that lit up its marquee with what has become a familiar phrase: #VegasStrong.
It’s unclear how many of the 30,000 students were on campus, but Sheriff Kevin Mc Mahill said that a group of students had gathered outside of the business school building to picnic and play after the final exams.
Henry was still waiting for confirmation that everyone was okay after speaking with NPR on Wednesday evening, and she was still checking her phone and email.
The dark idea that mass shooting are inevitable in American living and gathering in public spaces for some of them was what made them fear the most.
Police have yet to identify the suspect, the victims or a possible motive. The Associated Press reported that the suspected gunman was a professor who had recently been rejected for a job at the school.
Source: 6 years after the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, Las Vegas mourns anew
What Happened to Espina when she Was Shocked in a Mass Shooting on the New Campus of NYU: Why did she get swept up?
It did not seem real at first. And then you just say, ‘Oh s***. It’s my turn, I guess,’ ” he told NPR by phone on Wednesday evening. It’s the way it’s going. This is happening more and more often.
More than 630 people have been killed in mass shootings since the start of the year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. One poll released earlier this year found that half of all Americans have now been impacted by gun violence — 1 in 6 say they’ve personally witnessed a shooting.
Last week, Espina stood in a crowd of people at a Christmas parade and wondered aloud to his girlfriend if he would get swept up in a mass shooting.
“It’s not gonna be the last time,” he predicted on Wednesday. “I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s another, something like this, I don’t know, within a few days or weeks. That’s just how things are nowadays.”
When UNLV alerted students to the shooting on social media, the warning included the phrase “this is not a test,” followed by what’s become the standby survival advice: “RUN-HIDE-FIGHT.”
When the shooting started, she was on the other end of campus, ordering a bagel in the campus recreation center. She was swept in to a locker room with around 100 other people and spent the next 2 hours in a shelter.
