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| First identified victims of Las Vegas shooting from Tennessee and Canada | First identified victims of Las Vegas shooting from Tennessee and Canada |
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| A registered nurse from Tennessee and a mechanic’s apprentice from Maple Ridge, British Columbia, were among the first identified victims of Sunday night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas. | A registered nurse from Tennessee and a mechanic’s apprentice from Maple Ridge, British Columbia, were among the first identified victims of Sunday night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas. |
| Sonny Melton, 29, who lived in Big Sandy, Tennessee, and worked at a nearby hospital, was the first victim publicly identified. Family members confirmed to the news station WSMV that he was killed in the gunfire. | |
| His wife, Heather Melton, told WZTV that her husband had shielded her from bullets on the ground when the shooting began. “He saved my life and lost his,” she said. | |
| A friend of the couple told the Paris (Tennessee) Post-Intelligencer that the two had gotten married about a year ago. | |
| “I want everyone to know what a kindhearted loving man he was, but at this point I can barely breathe,” Heather Melton wrote to USA Today. | |
| The couple both worked at Henry County medical center in Tennessee, he as a registered nurse, she as an orthopedic surgeon. “The thoughts and prayers of the entire HCMC family are with Sonny and Heather’s families,” the center’s chief executive, Thomas Gee, said in a statement. | The couple both worked at Henry County medical center in Tennessee, he as a registered nurse, she as an orthopedic surgeon. “The thoughts and prayers of the entire HCMC family are with Sonny and Heather’s families,” the center’s chief executive, Thomas Gee, said in a statement. |
| The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that a 23-year-old British Columbia man, Jordan McIldoon, was also among the dead, according to his parents. Another concertgoer posted on Facebook on Sunday night that McIldoon had “died in [her] arms”. | |
| “We only had one child,” McIldoon’s parents told CBC. “We just don’t know what to do.” | “We only had one child,” McIldoon’s parents told CBC. “We just don’t know what to do.” |
| The music festival attracted more than 20,000 spectators from all over the country and beyond. As more victims begin to be identified, they will probably hail from a long list of different cities and towns. | |
| Local outlets in Bakersfield, California have confirmed with family members that 20-year-old Bailey Schweitzer was killed in the attack. | |
| Jessica Klymchuk, an Edmonton, Alberta, woman, has also been confirmed dead in the shooting. In a statement, Alberta’s premier, Rachel Notley, called the incident an “act of violence that is almost beyond comprehension in a time of peace”. | |
| At least 58 people were killed in the deadliest mass shooting in US history, when a gunman opened fire on an open-air music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino on the Las Vegas strip. | At least 58 people were killed in the deadliest mass shooting in US history, when a gunman opened fire on an open-air music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino on the Las Vegas strip. |