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TUESDAY 10.03.2017 No. 031 Vol 213
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TRAGEDY IN VEGAS
‘You don’t really understand the hurt until it happens in your own backyard’
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Our hearts are with the victims, families, first responders, and all impacted by the tragic events in Las Vegas last night.#LVMPD
IowaStateU Police @ISUPD Such awful news to wake up to. It’s in times of crisis that we can show what it means to be an American. My heart is with #LasVegas
Cody Smith @mrNeat95 Hearts & prayers go out to victims & all affected by Las #Vegas #shooting. Thank you to all heroic law enforcement/medical first responders!
Steve King @SteveKingIA Praying for the victims + their families of the Las Vegas shooting
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A man opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort Sunday night, killing 58 and injuring at least 500 others.
BY EMILY.BARSKE AND DANIELLE.GEHR @iowastatedaily.com Cole Willson, an Iowa State student born and raised in Las Vegas, stayed up until well past 4 a.m. Monday morning following the news of a Las Vegas mass shooting as it broke and checking in with his loved ones at home.
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Sunday night, a man opened fire from his hotel room on a crowd of about 22,000 people, killing 58 and injuring hundreds of others in what has been called one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history. The victims were attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival concert where singer Jason Aldean was performing. One of his closest friends from high school was at the concert. “She got out OK — she said she was within five feet of somebody who was shot,” Willson said he found out after texting her. The suspect, Stephen Paddock, 64, was found dead in his hotel room on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas Strip casino. The Associated Press reported there is no clear motive quoting Sheriff Joseph Lombardo saying, “I can’t get into the mind of a psychopath at this point.” Willson, a junior in management, found out about the shooting on Twitter sometime after midnight. He texted his friend at 1:15 a.m. CST and had a response from her saying she was OK two minutes later. He called his parents, who hadn’t heard anything about it yet. Willson said he’s scared he’ll see a name pop up that he knows as victims’ names get released. “You don’t really understand the hurt until it happens
in your own backyard where you’re from,” Willson said. And he said one of the hardest things is that things just go on. “You kind of feel like you know what’s going on there, but everything else here is going on just like daily procedures,” Willson said. “It’s like nothing’s changed. And it’s not like you can blame people for feeling that way — I have loved ones there and they don’t.” Willson said the shooting was part of the reason he donated blood in the Iowa State blood drive Monday. “We’ll be able to send blood over to Nevada,” said Alaina Porth, co-director of the blood drive and senior in psychology. The Red Cross can deliver to Las Vegas. Currently, they have blood available, but the blood drive is on call and ready to send more aid if needed. “It’s one of those things where people just need to not forget and be aware,” Willson said. Makenna Chapman, junior in public relations, was in Las Vegas at a nearby hotel during the time of the shooting. Chapman, her mother and her sister were attending a Cirque du Soleil show when it was announced the show would be stopped in order to monitor activity outside. “Officers came in, they locked all the doors, and the officers came in with guns in like a sniper position,” Chapman said. Chapman, her family and other patrons were told to get down. A family friend covered Chapman’s sister while her mother covered her. Chapman said at one point, someone tried to open a door from the outside and she could hear machine guns in the distance.
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ISAIAH JOHNSON/ IOWA STATE DAILY Pictured above is the distance from the location of the shooter in relation of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, where the mass shooting took place Sunday night.