One of the survivors of the Las Vegas massacre was killed in a hit-and-run in southern Nevada last week.
Rory McClellan was killed November 17 while hitchhiking just outside of Las Vegas on State Route 160 in Pahrump, Nevada.
The 52-year-old was one of the survivors of the October 1 mass shooting that killed 58 innocent concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas.
Rory McClellan was killed November 17 in a hit-and-run in southern Nevada. He is pictured with his wife, Denise
The 52-year-old was one of the survivors of the October 1 mass shooting that killed 58 innocent concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas
And his wife told KSNV that she doesn’t understand why both things had to happen to him.
‘I don’t understand why he wasn’t taken at the shooting, but a month later he was taken this way,’ Denise McClellan told the news station.
‘I hope my husband found peace and he’s safe now.’
The widow said the Vegas shooting was ‘really messing’ with her husband, and caused him to start going go therapy.
She wrote on Facebook that prior to the fatal accident Roy had ‘stormed off’ after a fight with his friend.
Speaking to the network Denise, pictured with her husband, said she is consumed with anger that his lifeless body was just left on the side of the road
His wife said he was hitchhiking on State Route 160 in Pahrump when he was hit. She wrote on Facebook that prior to the fatal accident Roy had ‘stormed off’ after a fight with his friend
McClellan survived the brutal massacre of 52 people in Las Vegas on October 1, and his wife says it’s unfair he was taken just seven weeks later
Police have located the car thought to be involved with the accident, and charges are pending, according to KSNV.
Speaking to the network Denise said she is consumed with anger that her husband’s lifeless body was just left on the side of the road.
‘I’m angry. I feel that he was under the influence of something or drunk and didn’t want to get caught, so he bailed and left my husband laying there in the street,’ she said.
‘He doesn’t deserve that.’
McClellan’s family has started a GoFundMe to raise money for his funeral expenses. It had brought in nearly $2,400 by Saturday night.