Year: 2017

ABC News(LAS VEGAS) -- Among the at least 59 killed in a mass shooting in Las Vegas Sunday night was a special education teacher, a kindergarten teacher and a nurse from Tennessee who saved his wife's life. Here is what we know about the victims ABC News has identified. Rhonda LeRocque Rhonda LeRocque, a wife and mother to a 6-year-old girl, was among those killed, her mother, Priscilla Champagne, said […]

iStock/Thinkstock(LAS VEGAS) -- Investigators are exploring whether Las Vegas suspected shooter Stephen Paddock sought a hotel room overlooking another outdoor concert in Las Vegas in late September that featured Chance the Rapper and Lorde, two sources told ABC News.Paddock allegedly rented multiple condos at The Ogden complex in downtown Las Vegas, which overlooked the location of the Life is Beautiful Festival. A spokeswoman for The Ogden referred questions to Las […]

ABCNews.com(LAS VEGAS) -- In the months before his deadly rampage, 64-year old Stephen Paddock was a man “descending into madness,” according to a person briefed on new findings in the investigation.New details are emerging, investigators say, that suggest Paddock’s mental state was deteriorating before the shooting: significant weight loss, an increasingly slovenly physical appearance and obsession with his girlfriend’s ex-husband.Authorities are hoping to learn further details about the motive that […]

ABCNews.com(LAS VEGAS) -- The Las Vegas shooter’s girlfriend assured her family she has a "clean conscience" in the wake of Sunday night’s deadly rampage, her brother told ABC News today in the Philippines.Reynaldo Bustos said he immediately contacted his younger sister, Marilou Danley, when he saw the news that her boyfriend, Stephen Paddock, had allegedly opened fire on a music festival crowd from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay […]

Bilgin Sasmaz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(LAS VEGAS) -- A former Miss Las Vegas winner got the chance to thank the retired firefighter who saved her, her mother, her sister and two girlfriends when a gunman started shooting onto the crowd at a music festival they were attending on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday night. "My mother is alive because of you," Paige Melanson, who was Miss Las Vegas 2016, said between sobs […]

RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP/Getty Images(SAN JUAN, P.R.) -- In a 13-story apartment building just 15 minutes from the airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Lizbeth Vasquez Delgado is caring for her parents and their neighbors the best way she knows how. After Hurricane Maria came ashore as a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane in September, Vasquez, who lives in New York City, is tending to their needs. And nearly two weeks after the […]