At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo said all but three of the 59 people who were murdered at an outdoor concert in the city Sunday night have been identified. Thirty-one of the people gunned down are still in critical condition, according to hospital representatives. Not all the families of victims who have been identified had been notified when the sheriff made his announcement, and until they are those names won’t be released publicly. The parents of one of the murdered concert-goers, Jordan McIldoon of British Columbia, told a reporter: “We only had one child. We just don't know what to do.”
Lombardo provided some additional details about the slaughter. Some of those details were already known.
The gunman’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley, is a “person of interest” who is cooperating with the police, Lombardo said. But he added that the only additional thing he was comfortable saying about this was that she is currently in the Philippines. Several police sources have said the gunman wired $100,000 to the Philippines before beginning his rampage, but there were no details on who that money might have been sent to.
Lombardo said the gunman set up a camera in a service cart across from his room that police think he was using to monitor the hall. The gunman used a “bump stop” modification to some of his semi-automatic rifles, allowing them to be fired more rapidly than they otherwise could be. In addition to the 23 firearms found in the hotel room he used as a platform to carry out his massacre and the 19 found at his home in Mesquite, Nevada, police found five pistols and two shotguns at at property he owned in Reno, Nevada.
Lombardo said police have video from 67 body cameras and hours of footage from surveillance cameras and phones to scrutinize. Given how much there is to view, this could take considerable time.
“This was obviously premeditated. The shooter evaluated everything he did, which is troublesome,” Lombardo said.
Below is an alphabetical list of the names of 53 of those slain. Their families and friends are in our thoughts, as are the injured victims and their kin.
- Hannah Ahlers, 35, Murrieta, California
- Heather Alvarado, 35, Enouch, Utah
- Dorene Anderson, 49, Anchorage, Alaska
- Carrie Barnette, 34, Anaheim, California
- Jack Beaton, 54, Bakersfield, California
- Steve Berger, 44, Shorewood, Minnesota
- Candice Bowers, Garden Grove, California
- Denise Burditis, 50, Martinsburg, West Virginia
- Sandy Casey, 35, Redondo Beach, California
- Andrea Castilla, 28, Taft, California
- Denise Cohen, 57, Oxnard, California
- Austin Davis, 29, Colton, California
- Thomas Day Jr., 54, Riverside, California
- Christiana Duarte, 22, Los Angeles, California
- Stacey Rodriguez Etcheber, 50, Novato, California
- Brian Fraser, Pomona, California
- Keri Galvan, 31, Thousand Oaks, California
- Dana Gardner, 52, Grand Terrace, California
- Angie Gomez, 20, Riverside, California
- Charleston Hartfield, 34, Las Vegas
- Chris Hazencomb, 44, Camarillo, California
- Jennifer Topaz Irvine, 42, San Diego, California
- Jessica Klymchuk, 28, Edmonton, Alberta
- Rhonda LaRocque, 42, Tewksbury, Massachusetts
- Victor Link, 52, San Clemente, California
- Jordan McIldoon, 23, Maple Ridge, British Columbia
- Kelsey Meadows, 27, Taft California
- Calla Medig, 23, Jasper, Alberta
- Sonny Melton, 29, Jackson, Tennessee
- Adrian Murfitt, 35, Anchorage, Alaska
- Rachael Parker, 33, Manhattan Beach, California
- Jenny Parks, Lancaster, California
- Carrie Parsons, 31, Seattle, Washington
- Lisa Patterson, Los Angeles, California
- John Phippen, 56, Valencia, California
- Melissa Ramirez, 28, Littlerock, California
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Jordyn Rivera, 21, San Bernardino, California
- Quinton Robbins, 20, Henderson, Nevada
- Cameron Robinson, 28, Cedar City, Utah
- Rocio Guillen, 40, Eastvale, California
- Lisa Romero-Muniz, 48, Gallup, New Mexico
- Christopher Roybal, 28, Corona, California
- Bailey Schweitzer, 20, Bakersfield, California
- Laura Shipp, 50, Thousand Oaks, California
- Erick Silva, 22, Las Vegas
- Susan Smith, 53, Simi Valley, California
- Tara Roe Smith, 34, Okotoks, Alberta
- Brennan Stewart, 30, Las Vegas
- Bo (Derrick) Taylor, 56, Santa Barbara, California
- Kurt von Tillow, 55, Cameron Park, California
- Neysa Tonks, 45, Las Vegas
- Michelle Vo, 32, Los Angeles, California
- Bill Wolfe, Jr. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania