Downtown Las Vegas garden gives families and shooting victims a place to mourn
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A photo of Las Vegas shooting victim Erick Silva, center, hangs on a wall at a memorial garden under construction in Las Vegas. The small garden is home to photos, crosses, ribbons and dozens of other items placed in memory of the 58 people who were killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. For their families and those who survived the massacre at a country music festival, this garden created by volunteers in the days that followed is a place to mourn and heal.
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Volunteers at the Clark County Museum in Henderson, Nev., catalogue and photograph items left behind from makeshift memorials for victims of the Oct. 1, 2017 mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas. A committee chaired by Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval will work to design, fund and build a permanent memorial.
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Teri Engel looks at a display of items left behind from makeshift memorials for victims of the Oct. 1, 2017 country music festival mass shooting in Las Vegas at the Clark County Museum in Henderson, Nev. The museum has been collecting and cataloguing the items after the memorials were cleared. A committee chaired by Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval will work to design, fund and build a permanent memorial.
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People embrace at a memorial garden for victims of the Oct. 1, 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas. The small garden in downtown Las Vegas is home to photos, crosses, ribbons and dozens of other items placed in memory of the 58 people who were killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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A worker installs signs with victim’s names at a memorial garden for victims of the Oct. 1, 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas. The small garden in downtown Las Vegas is home to photos, crosses, ribbons and dozens of other items placed in memory of the 58 people who were killed at a country music festival almost a year ago in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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A man walks by crosses on display at the Clark County Government Center in Las Vegas. The crosses had been part of a makeshift memorial along the Las Vegas Strip erected in memory of the victims of the Oct. 1, 2017 mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas. A committee chaired by Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval will work to design, fund and build a permanent memorial.
LAS VEGAS >> A garden in downtown Las Vegas is home to photos, ribbons, cowboy boots and many other items placed in memory of the 58 people who were killed almost a year ago in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
The garden created by volunteers has given survivors and families of slain victims a place to mourn and heal.
Angelica Cervantes’ son, Erick Silva, was killed in the Oct. 1 shooting. He was a security guard at the outdoor concert venue on the Las Vegas Strip where the shooting happened.
Cervantes says she visits the garden every other week and asks her son to watch over her, his stepfather and siblings.
Today, the garden is the only permanent public space in the Las Vegas area created in memory of the victims.
