Las Vegas Shooting: Those We Lost Pt. 1

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Hannah Ahlers, 34, of Beaumont, Calif.Ahlers was a stay-at-home mom for her three children. Ahler was dancing with her husband of 17 years Brian when she was shot in the head.
Heather Alvarado, 35, of Cedar City, UtahA mother of three who ran an in-home day care center, Alvarado traveled to Las Vegas for the concert with her daughter, who was not injured. Alvarado's husband Albert, a seven-year veteran of the Cedar City Fire Department, learned his wife had died Monday night. Heather Alvarado also served with the CCFD Ladies Auxiliary.
Dorene Anderson, 49, of Anchorage, AlaskaAn Alaska Aces fan and self-described stay-at-home mother, Anderson attended the concert with her daughters.
Carrie Barnette, 34, of Riverside, Calif.Barnette was part of the culinary team at Disney California Adventure for 10 years, working as a food prep trainer and manager. She had recently purchased a home in Riverside, a couple of miles away from her sister, nieces and nephews. A friend said Barnette loved hummingbirds because she saw them as a sign that her grandparents were watching over her.
Jack Beaton, 54, of Bakersfield, Calif.Beaton was at the concert celebrating his 23rd wedding anniversary with his wife Laurie and their friends. As the shooting began, Beaton threw the pair to the ground and shielded Laurie from the bullets. The construction worker told his wife, "I love you, Laurie," before he was fatally wounded.
Steve Berger, 44, of Minneapolis, Minn.Berger, a financial advisor, flew to Las Vegas with friends from Minnesota to celebrate Berger's 44th birthday at Route 91. Berger's friend Josh Decker worked with three others to revive the wounded Berger as the gunfire continued. Decker was forced to leave to leave his friends as a SWAT team moved in. Berger leaves behind three children ages 15, 11, and 8.
Candice Bowers, 40, of Garden Grove, Calif.A restaurant waitress and single mother of two, Bowers adopted her 2-year-old niece Ariel in May. Bowers drove to Las Vegas to attend the concert with a friend. The pair became separated during the gunfire.
Denise Salmon Burditus, 50, of Martinsburg, West Va.A retired banking professional, Burditus had recently returned to college. Burditus and her husband Tony traveled to Las Vegas and the concert for the weekend. Burditus, a mother of two and grandmother of 5, was shot while fleeing the second round of gunfire and was in a truck on her way to the hospital when she died in her husband's arms.
Sandra Casey, 35, of Manhattan Beach, Calif.Casey, who taught for nine years as a special education teacher at Manhattan Beach Middle School, got engaged while on vacation in New Zealand in April. Her fiance Christopher Willemse carried Casey in his arms amid the gunfire and tried to plug her bullet wound with his fingers before she died.
Andrea Castilla, 28, of Huntington Beach, Calif.Castilla was celebrating her 28th birthday with her boyfriend, friends and family members at the concert. After Castilla was hit, her friends used part of a fence to drag the Sephora employee through the gunfire to a truck to get her to the hospital. She died a short time later.
Denise Cohen, 57, of Carpinteria, Calif.Cohen worked as a property manager in Santa Barbara and was the mother of two grown children. Family members said Cohen loved travel and country music and had been excitedly posting to social media about attending the festival.
Austin Davis, 29, of Riverside, Calif.A pipefitter at UA Local 364, Davis went to the Route 91 Festival with his friend Thomas Day for a guys' weekend. Davis and Day bonded during their time playing in various softball leagues together, a passion of Davis'. Both men were killed.
Thomas Day Jr., 54, of Corona, Calif.A father of four, Day took his children to the Route 91 Harvest Festival. His children were unhurt -- but Day suffered a gunshot wound to the head. A friend rushed Day to a hospital, but there was nothing doctors could do.
Christiana Duarte, 22, of Torrence, Calif.Duarte, who graduated from the University of Arizona in May, worked as a fan service associate with the Los Angeles Kings. Duarte was watching Aldean's performance with her brother's girlfriend when the shooting started and the pair were separated. Duarte was shot in the face and died at the hospital Monday. Duarte's cousin, former New York Yankees player Brandon Laird, cut short his season playing baseball in Japan to return to the U.S.
Stacee Etcheber, 50, of Novato, Calif.At the concert, the hairdresser's husband Vincent, a San Francisco police officer, told her to hide, then to run just before the second round of shots rang out, as Vincent helped a concertgoer next to him who had been shot. Stacee was not been heard from after that. Vincent received word his wife was dead 15 hours later.
Brian Fraser, 39, of La Palma, Calif.A vice president of sales at Southern California mortgage company Greenpath, Fraser was attending the festival with nearly 20 close friends and family, including his wife, son and daughter-in-law. The father of four was walking toward the stage to hear his favorite Jason Aldean song, “Dirt Road Anthem,” when he was shot and killed.
Keri Lynn Galvan, 31, of Thousand Oaks, Calif.Galvan, who worked as a server at Mastro’s Steakhouse in Thousand Oaks, leaves behind children 2, 4 and 10 years old. Her husband Justin survived the attack.
Dana Gardner, 52, of Grand Terrance, Calif.Gardner was a 26-year veteran deputy recorder in the San Bernardino County Assessor-Recorder's Office. Gardner, a mother of three, was attending the music festival with her daughter Kayla when the gunfire erupted. Gardner was shot and killed; her daughter was uninjured.
Angela "Angie" Gomez, 20, of Riverside, Calif.Gomez was a 2015 graduate of Riverside Polytechnic High School in Riverside, where she was also a cheerleader. Described as a "fun-loving, sweet young lady with a great sense of humor” Gomez had established a reputation for herself in her community’s theater program.
Charleston Hartfield, 34, of Las VegasA sergeant 1st class in the Nevada Army National Guard, the off-duty Las Vegas police officer was also a youth football coach and the author of a recent book "Memoirs of Public Servant" chronicling his life working in the Las Vegas force. Hartfield leaves behind a wife, son and daughter.
Chris Hazencomb, 44, of Camarillo, Calif.Hazencomb was a big sports fan who even loved watching professional wrestling on TV every Monday night "even though it's phony," his mother Maryanne Hazencomb said. The Walmart employee was struck in the head while shielding his best friend's wife from bullets. His mother had him taken off a ventilator at 10:50 a.m. Monday.
Jennifer Irvine, 42, of San Diego, Calif.Irvine was a lawyer practicing criminal and family law in her own firm. An avid snowboarder and taekwondo black belt who enjoyed hot yoga, Irvine was holding hands with girlfriends, singing and dancing when whe was shot in the head.
Nicol Kimura, 38, of Placentia, Calif.Kimura, who worked in a tax office for Orange County, spent most weekends with her friends. The group of seven men and women who call themselves "framily" went to the festival. Kimura was shot seconds after the gunfire began. No one else in her framily was injured.
Jessica Klymchuk, 28, of Valleyview, Alberta, CanadaKlymchuk was an educational assistant, librarian and bus driver for St. Stephen’s School. The mother of four children, Klymchuk was in Nevada with her fiancé when she was killed.
Carly Kreibaum, 33, of Sutherland, IowaKreibaum, a Wal-Mart employee, made the trek to Las Vegas from her town of Sutherland, population 620. Kreibaum attended the concert with two friends, who said they became separated, but saw Kreibaum get shot. She leaves behind a husband and two children.
Rhonda LeRocque, 42, of Tewksbury, Mass.A devoted Jehovah's Witness who loved Hawaii, Disney and country music, LeRocque sent her 6-year-old daughter Ali back to the family's hotel room with her father-in-law while she and her husband Jason stayed for Jason Aldean's festival set.
Victor Link, 55, of San Clemente, Calif.Link was just back from a trip to Europe with his fiance Lynne Gonzalez when he headed to the Route 91 Harvest festival. Link is survived by his adult son Christian.
Jordan McIldoon, 23, of Maple Ridge, Brit. Col., CanadaMcIldoon would have turned 24 on Friday and was a month shy of completing a course to qualify as a heavy-duty mechanic. A Las Vegas woman wrote on Facebook that McIldoon died in her arms.
Kelsey Meadows, 28, of Taft, Calif.Meadows loved children, so she returned to her hometown of Taft to teach at her alma mater, Taft Union High School, as a regular substitute teacher after earning her degree.
Calla Medig, 28, of Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaMedig, who grew up in the Rocky Mountain town of Jasper, had taken time off from her job at Moxie’s restaurant in west Edmonton to attend the Route 91 Music Festival, the third straight year Medig had made the trip for the show. Medig had recently been promoted to manager of the restaurant.
Las Vegas Strip Mass ShootingThe mass shooting at a country music festival Sunday night on the Las Vegas Strip left at least 50 people dead and more than 400 injured.