On Monday night, the Las Vegas strip will go dark to mark the one year anniversary of the deadly Route 91 Harvest music festival shooting, which tragically claimed the lives of 58 people and left hundreds more wounded.
Marquees at resorts along the famous strip will turn off its lights at 10.01pm in tribute to those who died. The lights will remain off for several minutes, the Los Angeles Times reports.
At 10.05pm, the time at which the first shots rang out, the names of all 58 victims will be read at the Community Healing Garden, a memorial spot in downtown Las Vegas.
Last October, one week after the shooting, marquess along the strip went dark.
Marquees on the Las Vegas will go dark for several minutes to honor those killed in last year’s concert shooting. Marquees went dark last October (pictured) for 11 minutes
At 10.05pm on Monday the names of all 58 victims of the Las Vegas shooting will be read aloud to mark the one year anniversary. Nevada residents are pictured standing in front of the Remembrance Wall at the Community Healing Garden
The healing garden, which began shortly after the shooting last year, will be dedicated to victims and survivors earlier on Monday
Earlier on Monday, the community garden will be dedicated to the victims as well as those who survived the massacre.
Police say gunman Stephen Paddock acted alone when he killed 58 people
The garden, located at 1015 S. Casino Center Blvd, has been updated over the past year to include a large pair of angel wings etched with the initials of the those who were killed.
Photos of many of the victims have been placed on a rock and wood memorial containing the message: ‘October 1, 2017 changed Las Vegas forever. This time, we are a community pushed back with a very deliberate act… Together we planted a garden not only of trees and flowers, but we planted a garden of love, hope and compassion’.
Shortly after the shooting, a local planted 58 trees in the garden, one for each victim killed by gunman Stephen Paddock when he opened fire from the window of the Mandalay Bay hotel on concertgoers attending an outdoor country musical festival.
Paddock committed suicide as police stormed his hotel room.
In an announcement in August, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said the department had completed its 10-month investigation into the shooting and were not able to determine a motive.
‘The goal of our investigation all along was to provide the public with the clearest picture possible of the events leading up to Oct. 1, as well as motive,’ Lombardo told reporters at news conference.
‘What we have not been able to definitively answer is the “Why Stephen Paddock committed this act?”‘ he said.