Las Vegas Mass Shooter, Terrorist Attack, Nevada 2017
Las Vegas Mass Shooter, Terrorist Attack, Nevada 2017
Crime Rips Through Las Vegas Strip, Leaves 58 Dead and Over 600 Injured
Fifty-eight people were killed and more than 600 physically injured when a gunman opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest Festival, an open-air music venue, from a hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino on the Las Vegas strip. The Las Vegas mass shooting was the deadliest in American history, and it inflicted unfathomable damage to hundreds of people, many of whom were visiting from California.
Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein made the announcement in a speech today to law enforcement at the Los Angeles Crimefighters Leadership Conference. The Justice Department today announced that the Office of Justice Programs’ (OJP) Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) awarded more than $8.3 million in Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP) funding to aid Californians who are survivors of the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The $8,353,884 in funding will provide supplemental crisis response and consequence management support services to help victims as they continue to heal and cope with probable re-traumatization. These services include supplemental crime victim compensation expenses; victim assistance, such as mental health and peer support groups; outreach to identify and contact victims, including a virtual victim resiliency center; and related expenses for support staff to provide these activities.
The California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board will receive the funds to provide support to victims from California who were affected by the mass shooting. This new grant is being awarded as 35 of the 58 murder victims and approximately 200 of those physically injured were from California. By some estimates, half of the concert attendees that evening were from the state of California.
“The scale of loss and suffering endured by these victims and survivors is enormous, and the trauma will follow them the rest of their lives,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Matt M. Dummermuth. “We hope that these resources will help sustain them as they walk the path from pain and grief to healing.”
Defendant Name: Unknown Gunman
Criminal Charges: Terrorist Attack, Murder, Assault with a Deadly Weapon
City and State: Las Vegas, Nevada
Exact Date: October 1, 2017
Sentence or Outcome: Dead by self-inflicted wounds
Dollar Amounts: $8,353,884 (funding awarded), $19,000,000 (total funds provided by the Justice Department for law enforcement and victims' services), $16,735,720 (funding awarded to the state of Nevada in November 2018), $2,000,000 (funding awarded to support first responders in June 2018), $8,700,000 (funding awarded for active shooter training in November 2018)
The funds will also support peer support groups, which will occur in multiple locations to provide easier access for victims. In addition to this grant, the Justice Department has previously awarded funds to support victims of the mass shooting, including a $16,735,720 grant to the state of Nevada in November 2018 and a $2,000,000 grant to support first responders in June 2018.
The Justice Department's AEAP is a non-competitive solicitation specifically created to provide supplemental emergency and longer-term victim support to jurisdictions where a criminal mass violence incident has occurred.
Key Facts
- State: Nevada
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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