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Las Vegas Shooting: Amy McAslin and Krystal Goddard
From my notes: “They shut the lights off on the concert field while first responders were assessing shooting victims, claiming everyone laying the field was deceased even though some were breathing and crying for help.” Roommates Amy McAslin and Krystal Goddard dived under a table as the gunfire began in Las Vegas on Sunday night.…
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Electric Dream Eel
My bedside clock reads 2139 hours and I’m jus’ awake from a very bizarre dream. I was running across the desert towards a bluff that overlooks what I believed to be a pond. When I got to the edge, I jumped from the cliff towards the water. As I dropped to the surface, two things…
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Las Vegas Shooting: Photographer Brandon O’Neal
From my notes: “Australia’s Courier-Mail reporters having spoken to Brian Hodge, who was in the room next to the Las Vegas murder. He states: “There were multiple people dead and multiple shooters. I was just hiding waiting for police to come get us. I got outside safely and was hiding in bushes. My floor is…
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Las Vegas Shooting: Dr. Heather Melton
From my notes: “The Vegas murderer’s ‘companion’ is documented as Marilou Natividad-Bustos, in California, with a birthday of January 1962 — making her 55 years old. In Nevada, she’s registered as Marilou Lou Danley, with a birthday of December 1954 — meaning she would be 62. She also has two social security numbers.” As an…
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Compassion
As a child I was selfish, like most children. I had to be taught compassion. As an adult, I thought I knew all about compassion and had to learn the hard way that I didn’t. In fact, it took me several lessons, via some hard-knock situations to realize that compassion is both an ongoing process…
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Las Vegas Shooting: Auburn, Washington Firefighter Dean McAuley
From my notes: ” FBI is suggesting the Vegas murderer’s mental state was deteriorating, that he had significant weight loss, an increasingly slovenly physical appearance and obsession with his girlfriend’s ex-husband.” Visiting from Auburn, Washington, off-duty firefighter Dean McAuley was in Las Vegas to see a concert. Instead he ended up saving lives during the Sunday night…
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President Trump, MAGA Rally, Elko, Nevada
After attending a 2012 rally in Reno, Nevada for Mitt Romney, I promised myself that I’d never attend or even photograph a political event ever again. That’s how disgusted I was with Romney after he’d tossed the last debated to then-President Obama. Well, I broke that promise to myself today. This is my favorite picture…
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Las Vegas Shooting: Brian Rogers and EMT Kaitlyn Rogers
From my notes: “A source has let me know that law enforcement has a video of the Vegas murderer shooting from the hotel room. Apparently he set up a system to tape himself in the act. What a disconnect.” It was a few minutes after 10, Sunday night when Brian Rogers’ cellphone went off. It…
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Catfished
A friend is complaining that he’s been ‘catfished.’ I’m commiserating the best I can… She pretended to be a she. Had him hooked and on the line. No tuna for him.
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Las Vegas Shooting: EMT Glen Simpson
From my notes: “Investigators are now trying to identify the mystery woman seen with the murderer in the days before the Las Vegas massacre.” For Glen Simpson, Sunday night hadn’t been particularly eventful. An emergency medical technician, he was hired to provide medical services at the event. “I got a radio call to go over…