Memories of a massacre: The aftermath of the nation's deadliest shooting
LAS VEGAS - Last week the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department released more than 1,200 pages of witness statements and interviews conducted by law enforcement with survivors of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
In the course of the investigation, police gathered individual stories - each like a quilt patch sewn next to another. And another. And another. Until all the patches together showed what humanity looks like under siege.
In the chaos and confusion, the statements - given in the days and weeks after the Oct. 1 massacre - recounted acts of heroism and resourceful quick-thinking. Belts became tourniquets. Tables became stretchers. Off-duty police, firefighters, nurses and paramedics began to triage patients on site.
What also emerged is how, for some, the testimony became a therapeutic outlet after Stephen Paddock
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