After Las Vegas shooting, a city known for sin bands together in kindness

In a town widely assumed to be more spectacle than substance, the horrific mass shooting has inspired an overwhelming community responseMario Montemayor struggled to describe his experience at the Route 91 Harvest festival. But he was grateful, he said, for the friends, grief counselors, and hundreds of other students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, encircling him at a candlelight vigil on Monday night.Speaking one day after the shooting that left at least 59 dead and scores injured, Montemayor said he didn’t realize that it was an actual attack on Sunday until after the third burst of gunfire, when he saw a girl get shot. At first, he stood frozen. People were fleeing in panic, others dropped to the ground. But then Montemayor began helping injured festival goers get to makeshift clinics that arose on the edges of the site, out of harm’s way, where they loaded people onto trucks that sped to hospitals. Continue reading…
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