Firefighter Dean McAuley is getting a tattoo as a way to help heal from a traumatic event. He’s a survivor of the 2017 Route 91 mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed 58 music festival goers and injured hundreds. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. On the third anniversary of that terrible day, Dean got a tattoo from Healing Ink. The organization wants to help survivors of traumatic events through the art of tattooing.
Survivors and community members marked the third anniversary of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, as Las Vegas remembered the excruciating night when 58 people were killed at an outdoor country music festival in 2017.
Remembrances around Las Vegas ranged from a lawmaker setting out on a 58-kilometer (36-mile) fundraising run to blood drives to an invitation for survivors of the shooting to get tattoos.
The tattoo event was held by an organization called Healing Ink.
"They've been able to figure out that there's a lot of healing and tattooing," said survivor Dean McAuley. McAuley, a trained firefighter, recalled the shooting and his efforts to save those who were injured.
"I went to the EMS tent, grabbed some gloves. I went to work," he recalled. "I went out on the field, worked a few patients, two girls who didn't make it."
Authorities said more than 850 people were injured in the attack by a lone shooter firing from upper-floor windows of the Mandalay Bay resort into an outdoor crowd of 22,000 attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Police later said 413 of the injured suffered bullet or shrapnel wounds, others were injured fleeing the concert venue.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo announced Thursday he was raising the department's death toll from the shooting to 60. He drew local criticism in recent weeks for refusing to increase the number despite coroners' rulings that two women died during the past year of wounds received three years ago.
We hosted Healing ink here in Las Vegas at Seven Tattoo September 30th, 2020 the day before the route 91 shooting anniversary. Www.seventattoolv.com
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