Survivors gather near the Route 91 festival grounds on the one-year anniversary of the Las Vegas shooting on October 1, 2018.
On October 1, 2017 a man opened fire from Mandalay Bay, raining bullets down to a crowd of over 20,000 at the country music festival. It was the deadliest and largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. 58 dead, hundreds of wounded. Thousands left with little to no physical scrapes but endured scarring emotional damage. This is part of the aftermath of October 1, 2017.
Neysa Tonks' parents, Chris and Debbie Davis, and sister, Mynda Smith, embrace during a news conference for Children of the 58 on September 14, 2018, at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. Tonks was a single mother of three sons.
A woman sits alone as she holds a tissue to her face during the funeral of Hannah Ahlers, 34, at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California on October 13, 2017.
Each of the 58 people killed in the attack is honored with a cross inside the Clark County Government Center in Las Vegas on September 28, 2018.
Survivor Susanan Anely poses for a portrait at the Healing Garden in on September 16, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since Route 91, she has moved back to Las Vegas, started a new job, got promoted, started school and fallen back in love with photography. A couple of months ago, she had a panic attack at her workplace. It was under construction and the noise of a staple gun resembled a semi-automatic weapon. "You can feel 100% complete and fine and peaceful and have it be 100% taken back," Ms. Anely said.
Survivors comfort one another outside the grounds of the Route 91 music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 1, 2018, exactly one year after the shooting.
After a day of work, Steve Melanson drives to spend the night with his wife Rosemarie Melanson at Kindred Hospital, five months after the shooting, in Las Vegas, on March 7, 2018.
Rosemarie Melanson rests as her husband Steve Melanson comforts her at Kindred Hospital in Las Vegas on March 8, 2018. Ms. Melanson was one of the hundreds that were injured in the October 1 shooting but months later, one of few still in the hospital.
Survivor Li'Shey Johnson, who was working in hospitality at the festival, is comforted by her friend Diane Smith at her home on September 26, 2018 . "I felt like they left me…left me up under the stage to die. It takes a long time for those images to, go away," Ms. Johnson said.
Family and friends gather for the funeral of Hannah Ahlers, 34, at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California on October 13, 2017. Ahlers leaves behind a husband and three children.
A seat at the end of the table is empty as the family of Neysa Tonks gathers for a family dinner on September 28, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tonks was killed in the shooting, she was a single mother of three sons.
Heather Gooze, a bartender working at the festival the night of the shooting, is pictured in her home on October 2, 2017. Gooze held a man that night as he took his last breath. It took months before getting back to work because of emotional trauma.
With her foot warped two days after her second surgery, Li' Shey Johnson gathers paperwork and belongings before heading back to an appointment with a doctor on November 27, 2018.
Brittany Bassett-Quintero sits alone in her hotel room off the Strip on Sept. 30, 2018. For Brittany, shrapnel wounds have healed, but the emotional traumas have created aftershocks that she says have rattled almost every realm of her life from family to work. She notes it's been a strain on her marriage, she is now going through a divorce. She describes the healing process like a rollercoaster. "There are times that I think I’ve progressed significantly, and there are times… that I feel like I’ve been back at square one,” Ms. Bassett-Quintero said.
Survivors Chris Madsen and son Nick, who was 9 at the time of the shooting, pose for a portrait at their home on September 22, 2018. "It’s always going to be a part of us. It’s a part of [Nick’s] life, and it’s gonna be a part of his narrative as he grows and becomes a man," Mr. Madsen said.
Las Vegas shooting survivor Stacie Armentrout embraces her daughter's embrace after reading the names of victims from the Thousand Oaks, Calif., shooting at the Healing Garden in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 9, 2018. One of the people killed in Thousand Oaks was a Route 91 survivor, a friend Armentrout met through the Route 91 community.
Survivors Chris Madsen and son Nick Madsen toss the ball before basketball practice on July 27, 2022, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nick was 9 at the time of the shooting.
Fans sing along with a band during Remember Music Festival at Clark County Government Center Amphitheater in Las Vegas on October 1, 2022.
A man in a cowboy hat casts a shadow on pictures of those that died at Route 91, seen on a wall at the Las Vegas Clark County Government Center on October 1, 2022.
Debby Allan, holds up a photo of her son Chris Roybal who died during the shooting at Route 91, at Remember Music Festival at Clark County Government Center Amphitheater in Las Vegas on October 1, 2022.
Ashley Auakian and Hunter Curland dance during Remember Music Festival at Clark County Government Center Amphitheater in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 1, 2022.