American News - Las Vegas Shooting: What We Know About the Victims So Far
Channel: American News
Date: 2017-10-03

American News - Las Vegas Shooting: What We Know About the Victims So Far
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One was an emergency room nurse who’d gone to Las Vegas for a wedding anniversary — and died protecting his wife from gunfire.

Another was a military veteran who served in Afghanistan.

A police records technician from Manhattan Beach, California, also went to the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Sunday night, and she, too, became part of the soaring death toll in America’s deadliest mass shooting in modern history.

Here’s what we know about those killed in the attack so far:
Sonny Melton

Sonny, 29, and his wife, Heather, were celebrating their wedding anniversary at the music festival when gunfire rang out, NBC Tennessee affiliate WSMV reported.

Sonny, an emergency room nurse, “saved my life,” Heather Melton said. “He grabbed me and started running when I felt him get shot in the back."

"I want everyone to know what a kindhearted, loving man he was, but at this point, I can barely breathe," Heather said.
Christopher Roybal

Debby Allen went to the music festival with her son, Christopher Roybal, a 29-year-old military veteran who served in Afghanistan. But they got there at different times. When Allen texted Roybal, asking for his location, she never heard back.

And when the gunfire began, they were on opposite sides of the stage, Allen said.
“I was trying to run towards wherever I thought he might be,” she said. “This man wouldn’t let me — he kept pulling me away saying, ‘You can’t run towards the gunfire.’”

Allen later found a firefighter who’d been walking behind her son when he was hit.

“He told me my son was shot in the chest — that he said, ‘I was hit, I’m hit’,” Allen said. “They all bent down when the gunfire began and my son just fell back.”

Adrian Murfitt

Murfitt, a 35-year-old commercial fisherman, had traveled to Nevada from his home in Anchorage, Alaska, after a successful season on the water, The Associated Press reported.

Murfitt “was happy to pay some things off and had made some really good money,” his sister, Shannon Gothard, told the AP. He “decided to go out and celebrate and go to the concert and treat himself to something nice and fun.”
Gothard told the AP that her family spoke with a friend who was with her brother when he died.

Rhonda LeRocque

LeRocque, 42, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, was also among the dead, NBC Boston reported.

"We've lost a gem," her mother, Rhonda LeRocque, told the station Monday.

"She didn’t deserve this, her family doesn’t deserve this," said Jennifer Zeleneski, LeRocque's half-sister. "She was an amazing person, a great mom, great wife. She always had something nice to say when you needed it."

Lisa Romero Muniz

Gallup-McKinley County Schools Superintendent Mike Hyatt confirmed during a news conference Monday that Romero Muniz died Sunday night.

Romero Muniz had worked in the district since 2003, and was most recently a discipline secretary at Miyamura High School in Gallup, New Mexico.

"She not only an employee of our school district, but was an incredible, loving and sincere friend, mentor and advocate for our students,” Hyatt said. "She was outgoing, kind and considerate. We will miss all these attributes that she brought and shared."
Rachael Parker

Parker was a records technician with a decade-long career at the Manhattan Beach Police Department, in Los Angeles. She'd gone to Las Vegas with a colleague, a department spokeswoman said.

The unidentified colleague — an officer with the department — was shot but survived, said the spokeswoman, Kristie Colombo.

Parker did not.

She "will be greatly missed," Colombo said.
Kurt Von Tillow

Von Tillow, 55, was from Cameron Park, Calif., a small town in the Sierra Foothills outside Sacramento. Von Tillow was shot dead Sunday night; two relatives were wounded but expected to survive, NBC affiliate KCRA reported.

Von Tillow was memorialized at the local country club on Monday, and relatives and friends led a procession of golf carts to his home.

There, an American flag was attached to a fence and bouquets of flowers were strewn across the grass.

Sandy Casey

Casey, also from Manhattan Beach, California, was a special education teacher who’d worked for the city’s unified school district for nine years, NBC Los Angeles reported.

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