Dimmed lights, somber tributes on Vegas shooting anniversary
LAS VEGAS (AP) — 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 of the slain 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 casino-resort opened fire on the crowd of 22,000.
Rick Barnette, whose 34-year-old daughter Carrie was one of those killed, sobbed and looked at the sky Monday as the names were read. He wore a T-shirt with a picture of his daughter on it.
"It's really hard. Every night, when I go to bed, I think about her.