Steven’s father, Richard Berger, said the family was notified by the coroner’s office in Las Vegas on Tuesday afternoon that he had died. “He tried to go to him but they were trying to get people out of the way,” Berger said. He wasn’t sure where Steven wound up, she added. Mary Berger, 72, of Brookfield, Wisc., said her son’s roommate called hours later to tell them Steven had been hit by gunfire and collapsed to the ground. A fan of country music, Berger and his roommate along with four others were enjoying the Jason Aldean show near the Las Vegas strip when the rain of bullets began from the 32nd floor of a nearby hotel. Steven Berger, of Shorewood, Minn., traveled to Las Vegas as he had many times before with his friends, but this time they would celebrate his 44th birthday. Las Vegas Shooting Survivor Explains Why He Won't 'Let Fear Change the Way I Live' “He had been moved so we were optimistic that he’d received help,′ she said. Later, friends told Laurie Beaton he wasn’t on the ground anymore. Helping, she saw blood and heard her husband struggling to breathe.Īs quickly as the shooting stopped it started again and now, with lights on, the man told one of the husband’s friends who attended the festival with them to take the women to safety. Another man, someone who told her he was a nurse and an EMT, ran up and told her to put her husband on his side. “I screamed his name and he wasn’t answering me, there was a lot of blood,” she said. “He told me, ‘I love you, Laurie’ and his arms were around me and his body just went heavy on me.” Suddenly, she knew her husband had been shot. “He told me, ‘Get down, get down, get down,’” and put his own body on top of hers for protection, she said. “I’ve never experienced gunshots but when I felt air go right past my arm I told my husband, ‘I don’t think that’s fireworks,’” she said in a telephone interview with the Associated Press from her home in Bakersfield, Calif. Like everyone around her, she was looking around to see who was lighting them when she felt something like air rush past her arm.
Laurie Beaton was at the festival with her husband, Jack, celebrating their 23rd wedding anniversary when they heard what sounded like firecrackers. “She was always happy and loved her grandparents with who she’s now with up in heaven,” he said. Joey Castillo, who is married to Barnette’s younger sister, told the Orange County Register that Barnette loved hummingbirds because she saw them as a sign that her belated grandparents were watching over them. Another Disney cast member, Jessica Milam, was seriously injured in the mass shooting at the country music festival in Las Vegas over the weekend. “We are especially heartbroken over the loss of one of our own to this unconscionable and senseless act,” Iger said. Disney chairman and CEO Robert Iger said in a statement that she was “beloved by her friends and colleagues.” Barnette, of Riverside, Calif., was part of the culinary team at Disney California Adventure for 10 years. We are dealing with the situation as a family, and would appreciate our privacy as we grieve for our loss.”Ĭarrie Barnette, 34, was a Disneyland food service worker who never lost her sense of wonder for things like hummingbirds, according to her friends and family. We are greatly appreciative and want to thank everyone for the thoughts and prayers you have been sending us. We are so grateful and lucky for the time that we did have with her. “Due to this horrific and terrible situation, our family is dealing with a great loss,” a statement shared by the Alaska Housing Finance Corp., on behalf of Anderson’s family, said. “She was the most amazing wife, mother and person this world ever had. She was a stay-at-home mother from Anchorage and attended the festival with her daughters. “A person like her will never be replaced or forgotten and will be missed dearly every day for the rest of our lives.”Ĥ9-year-old Dorene Anderson’s death was confirmed by her husband John’s employer, the Alaska Housing Finance Corp., according to KTUU. “She has made huge impacts on those around her with even the smallest gestures,” Jackson Gadd said to the Associated Press a Facebook messenger conversation. Warino Alvarado ran an in-home daycare center in Cedar City, Utah, and was a devoted wife and mother of three children who was always willing to help others, said longtime friend Megan Jackson Gadd.
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