In 2017, 60 concertgoers who were shot and killed in a mass shooting at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Last week, Clark County officials announced that the venue’s operator, MGM Resorts International, has donated two acres of land for a memorial to the victims and survivors. Fifty-eight people at the Route 91 Harvest festival were killed October 1 by a gunman firing from the window of his suite at the property. Two others died later, and hundreds more were injured.
Clark County Commissioner Jim Gibson called MGM “a part of this community. I think it demonstrates as much as anything does that their heart is where it ought to be as we work on this.”
MGM donated a parcel of land near Reno Avenue and Giles Street, reported the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“Having a permanent memorial commemorating the victims and heroes of 1 October is vital to our community’s continued healing, and we are honored to donate a portion of the Village site to help bring that memorial to fruition,” MGM Resorts said in a statement. “We look forward to supporting the committee as it proceeds with planning for the memorial.”
