Las Vegas, NV (AP) - The casino company that owns the former concert venue that in 2017 became the site of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history said Monday it is donating part of the property for a permanent memorial.
MGM Resorts International called creation of a facility commemorating “victims and heroes of 1 October” vital to continued community recovery, and promised to keep working with a memorial panel on the design.
Word of the donation comes as the committee again asked for the public to submit opinions online through Aug. 15 about how the memorial should look.
More than 65% of some 6,000 responses received during a two-week period in March called it extremely or very important to have the memorial at the site across Las Vegas Boulevard from the Mandalay Bay resort.
60 people died in a hail of gunfire that sent 22,000 country music fans fleeing from the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Strip across from Mandalay Bay. More than 850 people were injured.