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They came to the Las Vegas band assured a fun night to cap off a fun weekend: The Route 91 Harvest, an alfresco country music festival, was at the end of its third day and Jason Aldean was assuming the closing set — and afresh bullets began slicing through the air.
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Vegas badge said 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, of Mesquite, Nevada, opened blaze aloof afterwards 10 p.m. on Oct. 1 on the concert army of some 22,000 from his 32nd-floor auberge apartment at the adjacent Mandalay Bay casino.
According to authorities, 58 bodies were asleep and 489 added were injured.
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When responding admiral entered Paddock’s auberge allowance afore midnight, they activate him asleep from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. There is no accepted affiliation amid the cutting and all-embracing terrorism, according to the FBI.
Here are names, photos and tributes to those asleep in the deadliest accumulation cutting in avant-garde U.S. history.
Lisa Romero-Muniz
A aerial academy secretary in Gallup, New Mexico, Romero-Muniz was a blithe person.
“Her smile is what I’ll absence most,” her husband, Chris Muniz, tells PEOPLE. “There aloof wasn’t a bad cartilage in her body. She’d accord you her aftermost dime.”
Romero-Muniz, 48, was admired at Miyamura Aerial School, Louise Leslie, whose 14-year-old great-granddaughter abounding the school, told the Washington Post.
“She was consistently cogent my granddaughter to break out of agitation and get about and do the appropriate affair — she was a acceptable acquaintance of hers,” Leslie said, abacus that on Monday at academy “everyone was crying.”
James “Sonny” Melton
James “Sonny” Melton, a 29-year-old registered abettor from Big Sandy, Tennessee, reportedly adored his wife’s activity afore he was killed.
“He affective me and started active aback I acquainted him get attempt in the back,” his wife, Dr. Heather Gulish Melton, told local radio base WYCB. “I appetite anybody to apperceive what a kind-hearted, admiring man he was, but at this point, I can almost breathe.”
Heather and Sonny formed calm at Henry County Medical Centermost in Paris, Tennessee.
“He would accept done the aforementioned for anybody,” she tells PEOPLE. “He was compassionate, caring and selfless.”
Jordan McIldoon
McIldoon, a citizen of British Columbia, Canada, died in the accoutrements of a ceremony worker.
Heather Gooze, a bartender at the festival, was captivation McIldoon’s duke aback his mother called. She best up the buzz and abstruse his name, and additionally abstruse that his girlfriend, Amber, was at the festival.
Gooze got in blow with Amber, who was crestfallen to apprehend that McIldoon, 23, didn’t accomplish it.
“No, that can’t be true,” Amber said. “He’s the adulation of my life.”
Charleston Hartfield
Hartfield was a 34-year-old off-duty badge administrator with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Badge Administration and a aggressive adept — as able-bodied as a committed adolescence football coach.
“He was a abundant guy,” acquaintance Moe Tuinei-Fiaseu tells PEOPLE. “He was a abundant father, coach, acquaintance and actually admired his Henderson Cowboys boys,” abacus he was “like a father” to his players.
In July, Hartfield appear a annual blue-blooded Memoirs of A Public Service, about his claimed interactions actuality a badge administrator in Las Vegas.
Troy Rhett, a abutting acquaintance of Hartfield’s, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he beatific him a argument bulletin backward Sunday night, “hoping he would argument me back.”
“I ample he was apparently active allowance others,” said Rhett. “I don’t apperceive a bigger man than Charles. They say it’s consistently the acceptable ones we lose early. There’s no truer annual than that with Charles.”
Rachael Kathleen Parker
Parker, a noncombatant agent of the Manhattan Coffer Badge Administration in California, abounding the concert with some of her colleagues.
The 33-year-old was attempt and taken to a bounded hospital, breadth she died from her injuries. One added affiliate of her accumulation was attempt but survived, administration agent Administrator Kristie Colombo tells PEOPLE.
Parker, a Badge Annal Technician, was with the administration for 10 years.
“We’re aloof in shock,” Colombo says. “We all aloof feel like we’re in a daze, it’s affecting and surreal that this happened. So abounding bodies in so abounding places above the U.S either apperceive somebody that was there and witnessed this or was afflicted or absent their life. It’s tragic.”
Jennifer Parks
Parks, a 36-year-old mother of two, abounding the concert with her husband, Bobby.
Bobby was attempt in the arm and survived, but his wife was killed.
“They were aerial academy sweethearts,” says Bobby’s uncle, Dr. Steven McCarthy. “When we met Jenny we all fell in adulation with her. She had a admirable faculty of amusement and was so kind.
Parks, who aloof got her masters in apprenticeship in May, was teaching elementary academy in Lancaster, California, breadth she lived with her bedmate and two children. Their oldest, Bryce, had aloof started aerial academy and Lea was in elementary school.
Says McCarthy, “They were the complete family.”
John Joseph Phippen
Leah Nagyivanyi tells PEOPLE that Phippen, her longtime friend, was asleep Sunday night while dancing alongside his son, Travis, who is an EMT.
Travis, who was additionally attempt but is accepted to recover, approved to animate his 56-year-old dad, but couldn’t.
“John was a abundant archetype of what a acceptable man and a acceptable actuality is,” Nagyivanyi says. “He was the aftermost actuality who should accept larboard this Earth. He was the affectionate of guy who consistently had your aback and consistently fabricated abiding you had a beer in your hand.”
Phippen leaves six accouchement behind. “Now, he will be everyone’s angel,” Nagyivanyi says.
Adrian Allan Murfitt
Murfitt, 35, a bartering fisherman built-in and aloft in Anchorage, Alaska, admired country music.
“He was a big country music fan and he would consistently airing about singing country songs and he had a admirable voice,” his sister, Shannon Gothard tells PEOPLE. “He absitively to amusement himself for a acceptable [fishing] division with a cruise to Las Vegas and the concert.”
A few weeks afore the festival, Murfitt bought tickets for him and a friend, Brian MacKinnon.
“His accompany and ancestors consistently came first. I mean, if he had 20 bucks, 10 of it was yours. He’s consistently like that. He goes so far out of his way to accomplish added bodies happy,” MacKinnon tells PEOPLE.
According to MacKinnon, Murfitt was attempt in the abutting and died in his arms. His ancestors says they are still in shock but are beholden their admired one was with a friend.
“I’m activity to absence him every day, every minute,” Gothard says. “I’m aloof animated he was there and had somebody there who admired him.”
Susan Smith
Smith was able-bodied accepted and able-bodied admired in her community.
The 53-year-old had formed for the Simi Valley Unified Academy Commune for 16 years and was a affiliate of the PTA while her two accouchement were in school, according to academy officials.
The aftermost three years, Smith was appointment administrator of Visty Elementary School, breadth she was “the centermost of the school,” Jake Finch, commune backer tells PEOPLE.
“She was the one kids would go to aback they’re sick, she’s allowance to accomplish abiding all food are in place, all the schedules are set…there are so abounding genitalia to her job,” Finch says.
Her colleagues abstruse of her afterlife aboriginal this morning, Finch says. Attorneys were on duke to allege with both agents and students, who fabricated cards for her ancestors and larboard flowers at her desk.
“It was a actual atramentous day,” Finch says. “No hugs were off banned today.”
Sandra Casey
When she wasn’t teaching at Manhattan Coffer Middle School, Casey, 34, could be activate out with friends, traveling with her fiancé or arena on her bounded women’s soccer team.
“She was so positive,” abettor Jenny Williamson-Pagan tells PEOPLE. “She was in such a acceptable abode in her life.”
Casey was a appropriate apprenticeship abecedary at the California middle school for nine years and hailed from Vermont, Williamson-Pagan says.
She lived with her fiancé in Redondo Coffer and admired actuality alfresco whether it be hiking or activity to the beach. The couple traveled often, best afresh to Scotland, Williams-Pagan says.
“[Casey] is admired by acceptance and colleagues akin and will be remembered for her faculty of humor, her affection for her work, her devotion to her students, and her charge to continuing her own acquirements and to demography on whatever new projects came her way,” Manhattan Coffer Unified Academy Commune Administrator Michael Matthews said in a annual acquired by PEOPLE.
Carrie Rae Barnette
Barnette, 34, was a adherent aunt to bristles nieces and nephews who afresh purchased a home in Riverside, California, to be afterpiece to family.
“Beloved by her accompany and colleagues,” Barnette formed at Flo’s V-8 Cafe in Cars Land at Disneyland’s California Adventure in Anaheim, California, according to Walt Disney Aggregation Chairman and CEO Bob Iger who beatific a company-wide email allegorical casting associates of Barnette’s death.
She “loved her job” as a baker at Disneyland, brother-in-law Joey Castillo tells PEOPLE.
A GoFundMe folio has been set up to help with Barnette’s burial expenses.
“A admiring sister babe aunt and acquaintance was taken abroad far too aboriginal during the Las Vegas annihilation a ancestors is never able for a tragedy like this,” the annual description states.
Barnette’s cousin, Janice Chambers, batten with The Arizona Republic, anecdotic her as the “life of the party.”
“We are in shock and devastated. She was a admirable soul,” Chambers said. “She lived her activity to the fullest, adored her ancestors niece and new nephew. She was a adorableness central and out, admired activity and authoritative others smile. She was actual adventurous, admired to travel. Heaven acquired a admirable angel.”
Hannah Lassette Ahlers
Ahlers, 35, was a mother of three from Beaumont, Calif.
“She was a candied anatomy who could ablaze up a allowance the moment she absolved in,” her ancestors said in a statement.
Father-in-law Dave Ahlers told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Ahlers came to the ceremony with her bedmate Brian and three added couples, Dave said. She and Brian had three children, ages 3, 11 and 14.
Dave declared Hannah as a “loving, caring and adherent mother,” and said she’d consistently accomplish time to advice ancestors and accompany in difficult times, anecdotic her as a “young Mary Tyler Moore.”
Her friend, Sunni Almond, told the Los Angeles Times that she “was possibly one of the best admirable women I accept anytime seen, with a affection to match.”
Neysa C. Tonks
Tonks was a 46-year-old distinct mom to three boys who formed for a technology aggregation in Irvine, California.
Her above abbey advisor Tracy Downey declared her to the Las Vegas Review-Journal as “a actual nice woman who was abounding of activity and energy.”
Her mother Debbie Davis tells PEOPLE that she was a adherent and admiring mother.
“She would consistently say ‘Everything that I do is for them,'” says Davis. “She was beautiful.”
Thomas Day Jr.
Day was a music- and baseball-loving, 44-year-old accepted architect from Corona, California, who abounding Sunday’s concert in Las Vegas with his friend, Austin Davis. Both died from baleful gunshot wounds.
According to Day’s four children, “you could consistently acquisition him at a baseball field, whether he was apprenticeship his children, playing, or watching his accouchement or grandson play. Our ancestor played his able activity and was an complete stud on the acreage — but afresh again, he was a stud at aggregate he did, such as basketball, golf, darts, etc.”
He additionally knew a antic or two and was consistently “the activity of the affair with a Coors Ablaze in his duke and a Copenhagen smile on his lips.”
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Jessica Klymchuk
A 34-year-old mother of four from arctic Alberta, Canada, Klymchuk formed as an educational assistant, librarian and bus disciplinarian at a bounded Catholic academy her kids attended.
Klymchuk admired her job, and “her aperture was consistently open,” her sister, Jennifer Grenier, tells PEOPLE.
“She leaves to ache four accouchement who all appear St. Stephen’s and her new husband,” Betty Turpin, administrator of the Holy Ancestors Catholic Regional Division, said in a bulletin to trustees, per the CBC. “She has been an agent of HFCRD for four years. Please accumulate the agents and acceptance of St. Stephen’s and her ancestors in your prayers.”
The Los Angeles Times letters that Klymchuk was in Las Vegas with her new husband, Brent Irla, aback battery bankrupt out. A ancestors acquaintance told the aperture that Irla was by her ancillary aback she died Monday morning.
Rev. Abraham Joseph of St. Rita’s Catholic Abbey told the CBC that Klymchuk “was admired by the kids” and declared her as a “lovely person” who was popular at the school.
“All the agents were crying” in the agents allowance aback they were told what happened, Joseph said.
Joseph additionally told the CBC acceptance aggregate in the academy gym Monday and were abreast of the tragedy.
“It was actually a shock to the kids,” he said.
Denise Burditus
Denise and Tony Burditus were aerial academy sweethearts in Berkeley County, West Virginia. The brace of 32 years affiliated and started a ancestors while Tony had a career in the Army.
Denise, a 50-year-old mom of two, was a retired coffer controlling who seemed to dote on her four grandchildren in her amusing media photos.
“We got affiliated at a actual adolescent age, and every day it aloof got better,” Tony tells PEOPLE.
After her death, Tony’s aggregate his affliction on Facebook.
“It saddens me to say that I absent my wife of 32 years, a mother of two, anon to be grandmother of bristles this atramentous in the Las Vegas shooting,” Tony Burditus wrote. “Denise anesthetized in my arms. I LOVE YOU BABE.”
Angela C. Gomez
Gomez, a 20-year-old nursing student, accelerating from California’s Riverside Poly Aerial Academy in 2015, breadth she was remembered as a “fun-loving adolescent adult with a abundant faculty of humor,” the academy commune wrote on its Facebook folio while acknowledging her death.
“Angie was a hard-worker who consistently challenged herself academically, and afterwards graduation she went on to appear classes at Riverside Association College. Angie was a loyal acquaintance who admired her ancestors and will be consistently absent by all who knew her,” the commune additionally wrote in its post.
A acquaintance started a GoFundMe folio and said Gomez was allotment of the Poly Cheer Squad.
“She was a airy adolescent adult with a balmy affection and admiring spirit. Angie’s activity was cut abbreviate aback she succumbed to injuries abiding in the Las Vegas Avenue 91 shooting. This absurd act of abandon has rocked our Poly Cheer and Song family.”
Gomez spent months planning the Vegas cruise with admirer Ethan Sanchez, who captivated her in his accoutrements afterwards she was shot.
“She was my life,” Sanchez tells PEOPLE.
Jennifer Topaz Irvine
Friend Stephanie Toms tells PEOPLE that Irvine, a 42-year-old San Diego attorney, “had the better heart.”
Friend Kyle Kraska wrote on Facebook that Irvine was “holding easily with her girlfriends singing and dancing to country music” aback she was fatally shot.
The friend, Kyle Kraska, additionally told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Irving “was like a little sister. I aloof admire Jen.”
In accession to owning her own law practice, Irvine reportedly becoming a atramentous belt in Taekwondo, and her interests included yoga and snowboarding.
Christopher Louis Roybal
Roybal, a 29-year-old aggressive adept who served in Afghanistan, met his mom, Debby Allen, at the appearance but the two were on adverse abandon of the date aback the battery began.
Allen — who was in Las Vegas to bless Roybal’s 29th birthday, which is abutting ceremony — accustomed alone to the concert from Roybal because Roybal had taken a nap.
When she accustomed she texted to accommodated up. “Baby, breadth are you? Send me your location,” she wrote him, according to The Daily News. Allen never got a acknowledgment and anon heard the gunfire.
“I was aggravating to run appear wherever I anticipation he ability be,” she told the newspaper. “This man wouldn’t let me — he kept affairs me abroad saying, ‘You can’t run appear the gunfire.’”
A few hours later, she heard from her babe that a firefighter — who was abreast Roybal — saw him abatement to the arena afterwards actuality shot.
“He said he rendered aboriginal aid but saw the activity go out of my son,” she said. “I feel like I’m active in a nightmare, I appetite to deathwatch up so badly.”
Roybal served 11 months in Afghanistan. His wife, Dixie, tole Reuters, “This isn’t breadth he was assured article bad to appear to him.”
Rhonda M. LeRocque
LeRocque, 42, was accessory the Jason Aldean concert with her husband, father-in-law and adolescent babe aback shots rang out, according to her family.
“She had a actual affable voice. Aback she batten she batten actual gently, [never] angry,” about Chrissy Welch tells PEOPLE. “[Rhonda] consistently came through like an angel.”
Welch says LeRocque was adulatory her 21st bells ceremony with a ancestors cruise to Las Vegas.
LeRocque formed for IDEO, a architecture abutting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was a adherent Jehovah’s Witness.
“She was actual adherent to her ancestors and her husband,” Welch says. “She consistently capital to apperceive how you were doing, what was activity on, if there was annihilation she could advice with.”
Quinton Robbins
A accustomed amateur and a apprentice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the 20-year-old Robbins formed for the burghal of Henderson, Nevada, as a advance recreational assistant.
“His attendance was huge,” uncle Mike Wells tells PEOPLE.
Robbins’ aunt, Kilee Wells Sanders, additionally accepted his afterlife on Facebook: “With an abundantly abundant heart. My sweetest nephew has anesthetized away. He was the best affectionate and admiring soul. Anybody who met him, admired him. His catching beam and smile. He was actually an amazing person. He will be absent by so many, he is admired by so many.”
Cousin Felicia Walker additionally set up a GoFundMe folio in his honor, autograph “He had a admirable anatomy abounding with a beaming light. That ablaze was aggregate with anybody he came in acquaintance with. He had a this contagious beam and a admirable smile that he was consistently quick to give. He additionally was a man of abounding talents. He excelled at so abundant in life. Anybody who met him, admired him.”
Bailey Schweitzer
Colleagues of 20-year-old Schweitzer, who formed for Infinity Communications, placed a distinct candle on her accession board afterwards acquirements about her death, her bang-up tells PEOPLE.
“She fabricated a huge consequence immediately,” bang-up Amie Campbell of Infinity Communications tells PEOPLE.
“We alleged her our candied Bailey,” Campbell says. “You couldn’t accept a bad day aback she was about — she brightened up everyone’s day.”
Schweitzer, of Bakersfield, California, accelerating from Centennial Aerial School, breadth she was a cheerleader, Campbell says.
Outside of work, Schweitzer helped at the bounded speedway, which her ancestors owned. From charwoman the clue to allowance racers accumulate score, no job was too baby for Schweitzer, 20.
“She admired her family,” Campbell says. “Her nieces and her nephew were her world.”
Stacee Ann Etcheber
Etcheber, a 50-year-old mom and beard stylist in Novato, California, was the wife of a San Francisco badge officer.
“With abundant hearts, the San Francisco Badge Administration today mourns the casual of Stacee Etcheber,” San Francisco Badge Chief William Scott said in a statement on Tuesday morning, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “Stacee was taken in a absurd act of abandon as her husband, SFPD Administrator Vinnie Etcheber, heroically rushed to aid cutting victims in Las Vegas on Sunday.”
In the bosom of the gunfire, Etcheber told her bedmate to run as he backward abaft to advice the wounded. On Monday, her brother-in-law, Al Etcheber, and some of his brother’s colleagues went to Las Vegas to chase hospitals acquisitive they’d acquisition her alive.
“Please adjure for our ancestors during this difficult time,” Al acquaint on Facebook. “She leaves abaft two adherent admirable accouchement and an amazing husband.”
Stacee was attractive advanced to affairs a five-bedroom home so her ancestors could move in.
“She had such a acceptable heart,” her father-in-law, Jean Etcheber, tells PEOPLE.
Keri Galvan
A mother-of-three, Galvan admired actuality a mom.
“She lived and breathed actuality a mother,” a abutting acquaintance tells PEOPLE. “Her ancestors is her absolute world.”
Galvan abounding the ceremony with her bedmate and friends, her sister Lindsey Poole wrote on a GoFundMe folio launched to advice pay for burial expenses.
She leaves abaft her three children: ages 10, 4, and 2 years old, as able-bodied as her husband, her sister and her parents.
Now, her ancestors associates who are home in Thousand Oaks, California, are absorption on her children.
“[They’re] aloof aggravating to aces up the pieces and booty affliction of the kids as best they can,” the acquaintance says.
Rocio Guillen Rocha
Her sons alarm mom-of-four Rocha, 40, of Eastvale, California, as a “loving mother who did aggregate she could for anyone who bare help.”
Marcus, 18, tells PEOPLE that Rocha was a “fighter” who spent a year acquirements to airing afresh afterwards the bearing of her son Christopher larboard her bedridden from the waist down.
Rocha, a agent who consistently completed half-marathons, additionally admired watching her sons’ basketball, football and baseball games, generally calling out the referees whenever she acquainted they adulterated a call.
Christiana Duarte
A contempo alum of the University of Arizona, Duarte had aloof started her career in business landing her dream job with the Los Angeles Kings hockey team.
Duarte, 22, was additionally a affiliate of the Sigma Kappa sorority, an alignment which aggregate a photo of her on Monday and asked anyone with advice on her abode to acquaintance them. Sadly she was afterwards accepted to one the 58 asleep Sunday.
A annual appear by the University of Arizona on Tuesday to all acceptance and alumni accepted the account of her afterlife and cogent their condolences.
“This advance is a abhorrent tragedy for hundreds of families, and it is a abominable and alarming accident for all of us. I apperceive I allege for the UA association in cogent our centermost condolences for Christiana’s ancestors and in allurement for their aloofness to be respected,” the annual read.
She is survived by her family, which includes her father, L.A. County Deputy Commune Advocate Michael Duarte and brother Chicago White Sox accessory alliance baseball amateur Mikey Duarte. Her abrupt afterlife leaves her ancestors reeling.
“She was my life,” her dad Michael Duarte tells PEOPLE. “I don’t apperceive what I am activity to do afterwards her.”
Jack Reginald Beaton
Beaton and his wife, Laurie, were adulatory their 23rd bells ceremony alert to alive country music while bubbler beers with their accompany afore bullets rained bottomward on them.
The 54-year-old Bakersfield, California, built-in adequate his wife by putting his own anatomy on top of chastening amidst the anarchy of gunfire.
“He told me, ‘Get down, get down, get down,’ ” Laurie told the Associated Press. “He told me, ‘I adulation you, Laurie,’ and his accoutrements were about me and his anatomy aloof went abundant on me.”
Laurie opened up to the AP about her husband’s afterlife with the purpose of absent bodies to apprehend how he had adequate her, aloof as he consistently had done. “I knew every day that he would assure me and booty affliction of me and adulation me unconditionally, and what he did is no abruptness to me, and he is my hero,” she said.
He is survived by his wife Laurie, son Jake and a daughter.
House Majority Baton Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) paid accolade to Jack during a columnist conference. “Jack Beaton is a ancestor of two and he was adulatory his 23rd bells ceremony with his wife. Aback the shots rang out, he jumped in advanced of his wife and he gave the ultimate cede for the one he loved,” McCarthy said.
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Tillow’s brother-in-law, Mark Carson, told KCRA, “My brother-in-law was the best affectionate actuality you’ve anytime met.” He added, “Guarantee you, he was covered in red, white and blue, with a Coors Ablaze in his hand, animated with his ancestors and alert to some music.”
Tillow, 55, was from Cameron Park, California, and on Monday, accompany and ancestors remembered him at the Cameron Park Country Club — breadth he was a affiliate — with a ample advance of golf carts activity from the club to his home, according to the account station.
“He admired to golf, admired his club, admired his family, admired his country,” Carson said. “He’ll be actually missed.”
Andrea Lee Anna Castilla
The weeklong cruise to Las Vegas to absorb time with her admirer and appointment her sister was a 28th altogether present to herself, but there was one affair still advanced that Castilla didn’t apperceive about aback a sniper’s ammo concluded her life: Her admirer planned to adduce marriage.
“He told me afterwards she had passed,” Castilla’s sister, Athena, tells PEOPLE of her chat with Derek Miller. Miller and Andrea had anachronous for seven months and lived calm in Huntington Beach, California.
“[Miller] told me, ‘I was planning on allurement her this weekend with you guys. … We talked about spending the blow of our lives together.’ ”
Brennan Lee Stewart
In a annual to PEOPLE, Stewart’s ancestors said the 30-year-old “was the affectionate of guy who consistently put others afore himself; including up to the moment he absent his life, Brennan cloistral his adherent and helped others to safety.
“Las Vegas was his hometown, his adulation for country music was apparent through the songs that he wrote, and the music he played on his guitar. Brennan rarely absent an befalling to appear a country concert.
“Brennan fabricated abutting accompany quickly; was admired and will be absent abundantly by ancestors and friends, but his anamnesis will alive on.”
Michelle Vo
Vo, 32, had a adroitness for axis strangers into friends.
“She could bang up a chat with anyone,” said Michelle’s earlier sister Cathy Vo, 34. “She was abounding of activity and consistently on the go. She actually enjoyed life.”
About two years ago, Michelle apparent country music and began accessory concerts in baby venues, Cathy told PEOPLE. Aback she heard about the Avenue 91 Ceremony in Las Vegas, she knew she had to go.
An able adventurer – she spent three months couch-surfing above Europe – Michelle larboard her Los Angeles home for a abandoned cruise to Las Vegas. She addled up a accord with Kody Robertson, from Columbus, Ohio, who threw himself on top of Michelle afterwards she was attempt in the chest and afresh backward in blow with her ancestors throughout the alarming night.
“If you were in her life, she actually afflicted you. She agape you over with all of the adulation and advantage she had in her,” Cathy said. “She was incredible.”
Calla-Marie Medig
The 28-year-old Canadian was afresh answer to a administrator position at her job and was planning to acknowledgment to Edmonton, Alberta, on Wednesday to activate the new role.
“She was fun-loving, responsible, dedicated, hardworking. I don’t apperceive what to say about her, honestly. It’s aloof a huge accident for us,” Scott Collingwood, a accepted administrator at Moxies Bar/Grill, told The Las-Vegas Review Journal.
This was Medig’s third year accessory the country music festival, said Collingwood. Medig planned to appear every year activity forward. She was the activity of the affair and a trusted friend.
“She was the actuality you’d alarm at 2 a.m.,” acquaintance Lyndsay Perham tells PEOPLE. “She was everything.”
Lisa Marie Patterson
When Bob Patterson didn’t apprehend aback from his 46-year-old wife, Lisa, who had gone to Vegas with three girlfriends, the southern California citizen jumped in the car and collection about 300 afar to accessory for her. “I went to four altered hospitals,” the 53-year-old says. “I aloof couldn’t acquisition her.
Learning that his wife of 21 years had been attempt at the concert, breadth she “died immediately,” has larboard him shattered. “It was afterwards a doubt, the affliction day of my life,” Bob tells PEOPLE.
Their three accouchement are still reeling. “I don’t anticipate it has actually sunk in yet that Mommy’s not advancing home – ever. She was the bedrock of this family,” Bob says. “I don’t apperceive what we’re activity to do afterwards her.”
Denise Cohen
Cohen, 58, had the array of smile that could ablaze up a room, according to her sister, Kristal Vogel.
The mother-of-two was fatally attempt Sunday atramentous during the Las Vegas concert massacre, but she was blessed in the hours arch up to her death.
“She was so blessed to be at that concert,” Vogel tells PEOPLE. “She was never home. She was consistently the aboriginal one to go out at night and the aftermost one home. She had a chargeless spirit.”
Cohen formed as a bagman and her agreeableness helped her excel at work. “She could advertise snow to an Eskimo,” Vogel says.
Cohen was the adherent of Derrick “Bo” Taylor, a administrator with the California Administration of Corrections, who was additionally asleep in the attack.
Derrick Dean “Bo” Taylor
The California Administration of Corrections accepted Taylor’s afterlife at the age of 56.
“I visited the afflicted ‘Bo’ Taylor managed and it was so adorning to apprehend the belief from agents that acutely exemplified him as a admired and admired man, not alone as a baton but as a friend,” CDCR Secretary Scott Kernan said in a release.
“He adherent about 30 years to our Administration and served us well. I extend my warmest condolences to his family, accompany and colleagues.”
Taylor was the admirer of Denise Cohen, addition baleful victim of the attack. Cohen’s sister tells PEOPLE that Taylor “loved life.”
“He had the best faculty of humor,” his acquaintance Lisa Rivera tells PEOPLE.
Brian S. Fraser
To his ancestors and friends, Fraser, 39, was the “ultimate dad.”
“[He was] the most admiring and caring, loyal, apprenticed man and bedmate that there possibly was,” Nicholas Arellano, his son, tells PEOPLE. “What I abstruse from him is how to be a accurate man.”
Fraser — who leaves behind his wife and four children, ages 4, 10, 17 and 25— attended the Avenue 91 ceremony with his family, including Nicholas, and some friends. He was with his wife, Stephanie, and their daughter-in-law aback he was fatally attempt Sunday. They had fabricated it to the advanced of the date for his admired Jason Aldean song, “Dirt Road Anthem,” his ancestors wrote on a GoFundMe folio set up to advice pay for burial expenses.
Despite accepting a ambitious job as carnality admiral of sales at a Southern California mortgage company, Fraser consistently fabricated time for his family.
“He still activate a way to go to every baseball game, every football game, every ball chic on top of [taking us] hunting, fishing and aggregate he capital to do with us,” Arellano says.
Stephen Richard Berger
Berger, a banking adviser, was out adulatory his 44th altogether aback he was fatally shot.
The father-of-three had gone to Las Vegas to appear the three-day ceremony with a accumulation of friends, including one coworker, Josh Decker.
“He had a large, admirable personality,” Decker tells PEOPLE. “He was aloof abundantly complete all the time. Lots of complete activity and actual charismatic.”
Berger, who in December would accept apparent 10 years at an agent at his company, EFS Advisors, was declared in a aggregation annual acquired by PEOPLE as a “loving and adherent father.”
“There are no words to accurate how abundant we accept accepted the befalling to assignment with him, and how abundant he will be missed,” the annual said.
Cameron Robinson
Gray, 54, tells PEOPLE her stepson, Cameron Robinson, was an intelligent, able-bodied and compassionate man who admired country music and doted on his adolescent nephew.
“Any obstacle that was put in advanced of him, he aloof overcame it,” Gray says of Robinson, 28, a acknowledged annal specialist for the burghal of Las Vegas who lived in Cedar City, Utah.
“He would do those Ragnarok Races with [partner] Bobby [Eardley] and they would run marathons. He was a assertive and aback he set his apperception to something, he able it.”
Christopher Hazencomb
Hazencomb, 44, “was a big, alpine guy, consistently animated and bouncing at people,” acquaintance Thomas Torres tells PEOPLE.
“He was kind, caring, allowance others.”
He was at the ceremony concert with a longtime friend, his mother told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“He clearly adored her from accepting hit so she could accession her two boys with her husband,” his mom told the paper.
Originally from Camarillo, California, he was an ardent Los Angeles Angels and auto antagonism fan.
Austin William Davis
According to Lana Haddox of Bellingham, Washington, her grandson Davis was a warm-hearted 29-year-old aqueduct bigger from Riverside, California, who enjoyed arena softball with his accompany and admired to fish, abnormally at Basin Havasu.
“He admired everybody,” Haddox, 77, tells PEOPLE, abacus the “intense pain” acquired by Austin’s afterlife has burst her heart.
“He was aloof the nicest guy. He had so abounding accompany and he was so kind. To apperceive him was to adulation him.”
Jordyn N. Rivera
Rivera was a fourth-year apprentice in the bloom affliction administration affairs at California State University, San Bernardino, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
University admiral Tomas Morales beatific a bulletin to the academy association acknowledging the 21-year-old’s death, writing, “We will bethink and abundance her for her warmth, optimism, activity and kindness.”
Family acquaintance Mike Schrader launched a GoFundMe folio to abutment her family, writing, “I’m absent for words appropriate now and I cannot brainstorm or alike activate to anticipate how [her parents] feel appropriate now.”
Rivera had a able acceptance in God.
“We’ll see her again,” ancestor Albert Rivera tells PEOPLE. “She’s with our ancestors that accept gone before.”
Dorene Anderson
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Anderson’s afterlife was accepted by the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, breadth her bedmate John works. The alignment acquaint a bulletin on account of Anderson’s family, adage that Dorene “was the best amazing wife, mother and actuality this apple anytime had.
“We are so beholden and advantageous for the time that we did accept with her. We are abundantly beholden and appetite to acknowledge anybody for the thoughts and prayers you accept been sending us. We are ambidextrous with the bearings as a family, and would acknowledge our aloofness as we ache for our loss.”
Anderson, 49, was the broker of the fan club for the Alaska Aces, a accessory alliance hockey team.
“Dorene was our broker of the cowbell aggregation this accomplished year and a wonderful, acceptable actuality who was a acquaintance to many. Thoughts and prayers go out to her family.”
Victor L. Link
The ancestor of a developed son, Link was a “huge, passionate” country music fan, his brother Craig tells PEOPLE. Link and his fiancé, Lynn Gonzelez, catholic from their home in Aliso Viejo, California to appear the Avenue 91 Autumn Ceremony with addition couple.
“They admired their music,” Craig says.
Victor is survived by Gonzalez and his 25-year-old son, Christian.
Carly Anne Kreibaum
A native of Sibley, Iowa, the 33-year-old Kreibaum was a mother of two, a abutting acquaintance tells PEOPLE. She accelerating from Sibley-Ocheyedan Aerial Academy and afterwards abounding Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska, according to her Facebook page.
“She admired to accept fun and she admired her ancestors and her friends,” the acquaintance tells PEOPLE. “She never said a bad chat about anybody. She was aloof a actual anxious actuality — she’s activity to be actually missed.”
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Earlier this week, her husband, Chris, thanked accompany for their abutment on Facebook.
Dana Leann Gardner
Gardner, 52, from Grand Terrace, California, was a hard-worker and a admiring mother and grandmother, according to her children, who issued a annual to PEOPLE.
Her accouchement declared Gardner as “an amazing animal being” who “stood for aggregate acceptable in the world.”
She “had a catching smile that would ablaze up a allowance and a faculty of amusement that would accomplish anybody laugh.”
As her accouchement grew older, Gardner started traveling added and spending time with friends. “As her accouchement it was so agreeable to see her so active and abounding of activity and that is how we will consistently bethink her,” reads the statement.
Teresa Nicol Kimura
Kimura, 38, and her amphitheater of accompany were so abutting that they advised themselves “family, a aggregate of accompany and family,” longtime acquaintance Ryan Miller, 39 tells PEOPLE.
Frequent concertgoers, the Placentia, California, built-in and her accompany had been attractive advanced to the Avenue 91 Autumn country music ceremony back the aftermost one in 2016, he says. But this year, he says, “seven of us went and alone six of us came home.”
Kimura, whom Miller alleged “a alarm of light,” had an communicable beam and a admiring personality.
Survived by her parents and a sister, she will alive on consistently in her friends’ hearts, he says. “We appetite anybody to apperceive what a admirable spirit and what a big, ablaze personality that she had. She was in so abounding ways, above than life.”
Laura Anne Shipp
Shipp, 50, was committed to her alone son Corey.
After spending best of her activity in Southern California, she confused to Las Vegas about bristles years ago to be abreast her son who was stationed there as a U.S. Marine, according to letters in the Ventura County Star newspaper.
“She was his world,” Laura’s brother Steve Shipp told the newspaper, “and he was hers.”
Steve said his sister abounding the Avenue 91 Autumn ceremony with boyfriend, son and some of his friends. Through the advance of the evening, the accumulation was separated. For added than a day, the ancestors searched for Laura.
On Tuesday, they accustomed apprehension that Laura was one of the victims.
“She was abundantly appreciative of her son,” Steve tells PEOPLE. “It was aloof the two of them. And now it’s the one of them.”
Candice Ryan Bowers
Bowers, 40, was a distinct mother of three accouchement who rarely took time for herself.
She had afresh adopted her 2-year-old niece, so her ancestors was aflame aback she absitively to appear the Avenue 91 Autumn ceremony with a friend.
“She was angrily careful and loyal to her kids,” her aunt Michelle Bolks tells PEOPLE. “Awesome person, above alarming mom.”
A GoFundMe folio was set up to accession funds for Bowers’ canonizing service, according to the site.
“Candice larboard this apple accomplishing what she admired – dancing to country music amid admired ones,” it states. “She will be abundantly absent by all who knew and admired her.”
Heather Lorraine Alvarado
Alvarado was a 35-year-old affiliated mother of three aback she was killed. Her obituary describes her as a actuality a affiliate of the Abbey of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, who admired to absorb time with her family, fishing, camping and adulatory Halloween with her kids.
She was a built-in of Norwalk, California. Her obituary reads, “Heather consistently brought a smile to the room, was blessed all the time, and was an alarming mom. Her babe and brother were her best friends.”
She affiliated her “true love” advocate Albert Alvarado on March 23, 2002, and they afterwards renewed their vows in Las Vegas 10 years later. Aback she wasn’t with her family, she ran an in-home daycare in Cedar City, Utah.
“We aggregate so abounding admirable memories together,” her acquaintance Selina Lopez tells PEOPLE. “I will absence her terribly.”
Her burial will be captivated Friday, Oct. 13 at the Enoch Stake Centermost in Utah at 2 p.m. She is survived by her parents, a brother and sister, bedmate and three kids: Syrus, Albie and Charlie.
Patricia Mestas
Mestas, a 67-year-old citizen of Menifee Lakes, California, and was adequate the Avenue 91 Autumn concert with her acquaintance Kim Gervais and her son on Oct. 1.
She “was one abundant lady, admired her ancestors and country music,” according to a GoFundMe set up by her daughter-in-law.
“[Mestas] was at the concert in Las Vegas adequate the music that she waited so connected to go to… blessed and excited,” it read.
Mestes was a grandmother of eight who admired babies.
“People were fatigued to her,” her brother JD Arrighi tells PEOPLE. “They’d apperceive her a few account and feel they’d accepted her for life.”
All gain aloft from her GoFundMe folio will be acclimated to accompany Mestas’ anatomy to California from Nevada.
Carolyn Lee Parsons
Parsons, a built-in of Bainbridge Island, Washington, was a fan of Eric Church, one of the singer’s who performed at the Avenue 91 Autumn Festival.
“Night made!” She wrote in a photo of herself at the concert, which she acquaint on Instagram. Afterwards her afterlife on Monday evening, her friend, Carolyn Farmer, aggregate an angel of the Instagram on Eric Church’s folio to admire her friend.
“My acceptable acquaintance Carrie Parsons absent her activity in the avenue 91 autumn cutting Sunday,” Farmer wrote. “She admired your music. I anticipate she had been to about 10 of your concerts, including aback you played at tractor alehouse in Seattle afore you got big. Anticipation I should allotment the photo below! It was her aftermost post. I feel accord apperceive she was active activity until her aftermost moments, admiring country music.”
Parsons acquaintance Kelli Lovett tells PEOPLE of her catching beam and abundant energy. She was generally a acquaintance to her friends.
“She consistently had everyone’s best absorption at heart,” says Lovett.
Brett Schwanbeck
Schwanbeck, 61, was accessory the Avenue 91 Autumn country music ceremony with his fiancée Anna Orozco, according to a GoFundMe page set up by his family.
He was afflicted in the aboriginal annular of gunfire. Several bodies helped Orozco backpack him to an apprehension ambulance, and he was taken to Sunrise Medical Centermost breadth he “fought a abundant action to balance from his injuries.”
Schwanbeck, who was a retired barter disciplinarian from Bullhead City, Arizona, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday.
“Brett was a abundant man that was funny, generous, kind, admiring and so abounding of joy!” the GoFundMe folio reads. “He would drive 500 afar to advice you if you bare it. He admired his ancestors dearly and admired basin trips, ancestors gatherings, hunting, camping and spending time with his kids and grandkids.”
Schwanbeck was a grandfathering who admired accepting ancestors around. “He was a appeaser who wasn’t shy about cogent his opinion,” his niece Carla Van Hoosen tells PEOPLE. “Everyone adored him.”
Austin Cooper Meyer
Meyer, from Marina, California, was adulatory his 24th altogether with his adherent in Las Vegas aback he was attempt and killed.
“Austin was accessory the ceremony with his girlfriend, Dana, as a abruptness adulatory his 24th altogether and accessible anniversary,” his sister, Veronica, told KSBW.
“[He] was a joy to be around,” Veronica added. “He consistently had a smile on his face, was [witty] and was consistently authoritative bodies laugh. He was amorous about cars, admired sports, basketball in particular, and his admired aggregation [was] the Boston Celtics.”
Meyer had confused to Reno, Nevada, to abstraction at Truckee Meadows Association College, according to KSBW. He was alive at a Costco in Sparks, Nevada, according to a GoFundMe page set up by a coworker.
He was acquisitive to acquire a amount in Transportation Technologies and accessible an auto adjustment shop, his mother tells PEOPLE. “He was aflame to get affiliated and alpha a family,” she says.”
Tara Ann Roe Smith
Roe Smith, a model, mother and wife, from Okotoks, Alberta, Canada additionally formed as an educational abettor for the Foothills Academy Division.
The 34-year-old was declared as “a affable face” who had a “very caring spirit,” according to her clay agency Sophia Models International, which aggregate a accolade to Roe Smith on Facebook. “We are saddened, abashed and adjure for anybody afflicted by this tragedy.”
Roe Smith was also an educational abettor for the Foothills Academy Division, according to a annual on their website from administrator John Bailey.
“It is with sadness, shock, and affliction that we affirm the accident of a Foothills Academy Division agents member,” Bailey confirmed.
A GoFundMe folio was created to advice abutment Roe Smith’s husband, Zach, and their two adolescent sons.
Erick Silva
Silva was alive as a aegis bouncer at the Avenue 91 Autumn country music festival.
The 21-year-old Las Vegas citizen was stationed at the advanced of the stage, Gina Argento, appointment administrator at the Contemporary Services Corporation security, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
As bullets rained bottomward on the breadth area he was standing, Silva chose not to run for his activity but rather helped concert-goers escape, Argento said.
As he helped others abscond he was addled and fatally injured.
He was aggravating to advice bodies get out,” she told the Journal. “He was in advanced of the stage. He was in advanced of everything.”
On a GoFundMe folio set up by his coworkers, the 21-year-old was declared as a “leader” at home and at events.
“He was the apotheosis of integrity, service, and arete and we will absence him dearly,” his aide Jay Purves wrote.
Kelsey Breanne Meadows
Meadows, 28, was a built-in of Taft, California, who formed as a acting abecedary at her alma mater, Taft Union Aerial School, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Her brother, Brad, aggregate the account of her afterlife on Facebook Tuesday, writing, “My ancestors and I appetite to booty a minute and acknowledge anybody that has been aggravating to advice us locate my sister.”
“So it is with an actually burst affection that I let anybody apperceive that Kelsey did not survive this adverse event,” he continued.
According to the Times, the academy commune fabricated attorneys accessible for afflicted acceptance and agents and planned a acuity for her at the aerial academy Wednesday evening.
“Kelsey was smart, compassionate and kind,” Principal Mary Alice Finn said in a annual to the Times. “She had a candied spirit and a adulation for children.”
Melissa V. Ramirez
Ramirez, 26, was a alum of California State University, Bakersfield. Her adulation of country music drew her to the Avenue 91 Autumn Festival, breadth she would ultimately lose her life.
She was the babe of Mexican immigrants, and advised business, according to the New York Times.She would absorb her summers during aerial academy alive alongside her parents affairs bake-apple and vegetables for a bounded acreage aggregation at flea markets, the Times reported.
“She consistently helped her parents, and aloof capital to be there,” her cousin, Fabiola Farnetti, told the outlet.
Bill Wolfe Jr.
Wolfe and his wife, Robyn, were adulatory their 20th bells ceremony at the country music festival, according to the AP. He would’ve angry 43 on Oct. 15.
The ancestor of one, from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, was an elementary academy angry drillmaster and a Little Alliance team. A GoFundMe folio was created by the Shippensburg University angry team.
“It is with the best of burst hearts, the families of Bill Wolfe Jr. and his wife Robyn allotment that Bill has been accepted to be amid the asleep as a aftereffect of the accumulation advance in Las Vegas. Please abide to authority their entire ancestors as able-bodied as those afflicted above the nation in your amaranthine prayers,” the description reads.
• Reporting by ELAINE ARADILLAS, K.C. BAKER, JOHNNY DODD, ALEXANDRA ROCKEY FLEMING, CHRIS HARRIS, STEVE HELLING, DIANE HERBST, CAITLIN KEATING, CHRISTINE PELISEK, HARRIET SOKMENSUER, JEFF TRUESDELL and JULIETTE VARA
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