The Department of Justice announced Friday it will allocate nearly $17 million to help survivors of the 2017 mass shooting at the Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest music festival, the deadliest in U.S. history.
Funding from the department’s Office for Victims of Crime will help cover the costs of counseling, therapy rehabilitation trauma recovery and legal aid for thousands of people affected by the Oct. 1, 2017, massacre, said acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker.
The funding will also support victim family members, medical personnel, coroner’s staff, taxi drivers and others who helped concert goers in the attack, in which 58 people were killed and hundreds were wounded.
“While we cannot undo the harm that has been done, this Department of Justice is doing what we can to help Las Vegas heal,” Mr. Whitaker said in a speech to law enforcement officials in Cincinnati.
Stephen Paddock was identified as the gunman who opened fire on the music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. Paddock, 64, apparently took his own life just after the massacre commenced.
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