Country star Jason Aldean and others took time out to remember the victims killed in the Las Vegas shooting at a country music festival on the seventh anniversary of the tragedy.
In a post on Tuesday on Instagram, Aldean shared an image of the original poster used to promote the Route 91 Harvest music festival in 2017 with Aldean, Eric Church, and Sam Hunt headlining the multi-day concerts. On the last night, Aldean was on stage when a gunman on opened fire on the crowd, killing nearly 60 people and wounding hundreds more.
“7 years later and this day never gets easier,” the 47-year-old country singer wrote. “Sending love out to everybody in the Route 91 family today. We love yall!”
The Las Vegas Review-Journal posted a picture on X of all those whose lives were lost in the deadly shooting. “Today marks seven years since the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting on Oct. 1, 2017. May those who lost their lives never be forgotten,” the post read.
A post from the Clark County Nevada X account shared, “Emotional words from Michael Duarte on this 7th Remembrance of the tragedy at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las #Vegas Strip. Michael’s sister Christiana was one of the victims that night in 2017.”
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Another post from Nevada read, “Seven years have passed since the tragic events of #1 October at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Today, we honor the memory of those who lost their lives, support the survivors, and thank the brave first responders who were there. Forever in our hearts. #VegasStrong #LasVegas.”
On the night of October 1, 2017, a 64-year-old gunman opened fire on the country music fans while Aldean was performing, The Daily Wire previously reported.
Firing from a hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and using multiple rifles, the shooter fired hundreds of rounds for several minutes, resulting in 58 dead and nearly 500 wounded. It was the most deadly mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
The shooter took his own life as security personnel and the SWAT team converged on his hotel room. He had carried 23 guns and thousands of rounds into his hotel room and had fitted twelve of the guns with “bump stocks,” a device which allows semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly.
The shooter had no prior criminal record and appears to have purchased the weapons legally. In addition to the cache of weapons, he had set up security cameras in the hotel room and the hallway. The motive for the mass shooting remains a mystery.
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