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 an Alaskan fisherman celebrating a big catch.
A police records technician from Manhattan Beach, California, also went to the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Saturday night, and she, too, became part of the soaring death toll in America’s deadliest mass shooting on modern history.
Here’s what we know about those killed in the attack so far:
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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.
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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 Saturday 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.”
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.
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.