Dimmed lights, somber tributes on Vegas shooting anniversary
Posted October 02, 2018 1:00 am
LAS VEGAS - The marquees on the glimmering Las Vegas Strip dimmed their lights for three minutes Monday night as officials slowly read the 58 names of the people killed one year earlier in the country's deadliest mass shooting in modern history.
The names were recited before a silent crowd punctuated by sobs shortly after 10:05 p.m., nearly the exact time that a gunman in a tower suite at the Mandalay Bay opened fire on the crowd of 22,000.
The ceremony ended a somber day of events reuniting survivors and the family members of those killed at last year's country music festival.
Hours earlier, the victims' families, survivors and elected officials marked the anniversary of the tragedy by placing roses on a tribute wall and dedicating a downtown memorial garden.
The sun sets as people attend a ceremony to dedicate a memorial garden for victims, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, on the anniversary of the mass shooting a year earlier, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A woman looks at a wall with pictures of the victims before a ceremony at a memorial garden, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, on the anniversary of the mass shooting a year earlier, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
People embrace before a ceremony at a memorial garden, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, on the anniversary of the mass shooting a year earlier, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
People embrace before a ceremony at a memorial garden, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, on the anniversary of the mass shooting a year earlier, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
People's shadows fall on a painted wall during a ceremony at a memorial garden, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, on the anniversary of the mass shooting a year earlier, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
People embrace Norma Felix at a prayer service on the anniversary of the Oct.1, 2017 mass shooting, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, in Las Vegas. Felix attended the country music festival last year and came back to Las Vegas for the anniversary. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Gregorio De la Rosa places a flower on a wall during a ceremony to dedicate a memorial garden for victims, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, on the anniversary of the mass shooting a year earlier, in Las Vegas. De la Rosa's stepson Erick Silva was killed in the shooting. (AP Photo/John Locher)
People embrace before a ceremony at a memorial garden, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, on the anniversary of the mass shooting a year earlier, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
People's shadows fall on a painted wall during a ceremony at a memorial garden, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, on the anniversary of the mass shooting a year earlier, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
People embrace Norma Felix at a prayer service on the anniversary of the Oct.1, 2017 mass shooting, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, in Las Vegas. Felix attended the country music festival last year and came back to Las Vegas for the anniversary. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Norma Felix displays a tattoo after a prayer service on the anniversary of the Oct.1, 2017 mass shooting, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, in Las Vegas. Felix attended the country music festival last year and came back to Las Vegas for the anniversary. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Norma Felix, center right, and Cheryl Seguin, center left, pray with others at a prayer service on the anniversary of the Oct.1, 2017 mass shooting, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, in Las Vegas. The two attended the country music festival last year and came back to Las Vegas for the anniversary. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Norma Felix, center right, and Cheryl Seguin, center left, pray with others at a prayer service on the anniversary of the Oct.1, 2017 mass shooting, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, in Las Vegas. The two attended the country music festival last year and came back to Las Vegas for the anniversary. (AP Photo/John Locher)
From left, Michaela Stilwell, Melinda Stilwell and Taylor Curtis attend a prayer service on the anniversary of the Oct.1, 2017 mass shooting, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, in Las Vegas. Michaela Stilwell and Taylor Curtis attended the country music festival last year and came back to Las Vegas for the anniversary. (AP Photo/John Locher)
From left, Linda Hazelwood, Michelle Hamel and Jann Blake, all from California, cry as they attend a prayer service on the anniversary of the Oct. 1, 2017 mass shooting, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, in Las Vegas. The three saw bullets hit the ground near them when they attended the country music festival last year, and housed other attendees in their hotel room that night. "We needed this closure," said Jann Blake, "It's been a heavy year." (AP Photo/John Locher)
Jann Blake cries as she attends a prayer service on the anniversary of the Oct. 1, 2017 mass shooting, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, in Las Vegas. Blake saw bullets hit the ground near her when she attended the country music festival last year. "We needed this closure," said Blake, "It's been a heavy year." (AP Photo/John Locher)
FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2017 file photo, a woman sits on a curb at the scene of a shooting outside a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. It took 11 minutes for the gunman in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history to kill 58 people. Then he killed himself. A year later, Las Vegas police and the FBI have found no motive for the rampage. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2017, file photo, drapes billow out of broken windows at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, following a deadly shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas. It took 11 minutes for the gunman in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history to kill 58 people. Then he killed himself. A year later, Las Vegas police and the FBI have found no motive for the rampage. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Survivors return to the scene of a mass shooting on the first anniversary, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, in Las Vegas. Hundreds of survivors of the Las Vegas mass shooting have formed a human chain around the shuttered site of a country music festival where a gunman opened fire last year. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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