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Officials in Las Vegas vowed Monday to complete a permanent memorial to victims and survivors of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history by the 10th anniversary of the 2017 attack.
The announcement came one day before the seventh anniversary of the shooting that initially left 58 people dead and hundreds more injured when a gunman opened fire into a crowded country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. Two more people died in subsequent years of their gunshot wounds.
Jan Jones-Blackhurst, who chairs the Vegas Strong Fund, the nonprofit in charge of fundraising for and constructing the memorial, said at a news conference that the group hopes to break ground at the site of the attack within six months.
