LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — It is an unlikely love story. Near strangers who survived the 1 October shooting together are still together eight years later. Thursday, they spoke with FOX5’s Kim Passoth.
It was a night that forever changed Las Vegas and remains the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. A love that was sparked at a chance meeting a day earlier at a bar further up the Strip became an unbreakable bond in the chaos.
“It was my second year at Route 91. I went with a couple of girlfriends from Canada… we went to Gilly’s… He was looking at me from across the bar,” recounted Chantal Monfort, then Chantal Melanson, about then-stranger Austin Monfort…