When the shooting stopped, 59 distant lives ended together at a Vegas country music concert
by By Joe Mozingo, Sonali Kohli and Melissa Etehad, Los Angeles Times
Oct 02, 2017
3 minutes
They came from Alaska and Tennessee, California and West Virginia, commercial fishermen, police officers, teachers, retirees - drawn together only by a love of country music.
When the shooting stopped, 59 of those distant lives would end in the latest massacre to take the grim title of "the worst mass shooting in modern American history."
As the afternoon light faded on Sunday at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Denise Burditus leaned in for a selfie with her husband, Tony. The lens caught a sliver of the gold-glass Mandalay Bay
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