LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and Clark County are coming together to co-host a 1 October Sunrise Remembrance ceremony, marking 8 years since the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las Vegas Strip that took 60 lives and left hundreds injured.
The ceremony will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 7:30 a.m. at the Clark County Government Center Amphitheater in downtown Las Vegas. Clark County and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department are co-hosting the event with the Clark County Fire Department and the local Resiliency & Justice Center.
It will feature the Southern Nevada Multiagency Honor Guard, a minute of silence for those lost at the October 1, 2017, shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, and remarks from Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill, and Clark County Commission Chairman Tick Segerblom.
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It will also feature Jeff Poole of Simi Valley, California, whose daughter, Keri Lynn Galvan, 31, was one of the 58 who perished in the immediate aftermath of the attack. She was married and the mother of three children…