Families of Victims From Route 91 Shooting Given $275,000 Each From GoFundMe

After a victims’ fund was started on GoFundMe for the Route 91 Harvest Festival tragedy, around $31.5 million was donated from all around the world to help with the victims and their families who were affected by the shooting.

Dividing the funds equally between the families of the 58 victims who lost their lives during the massacre, each of them will be gifted with $275,000. Another 10 victims who were either paralyzed or suffered from permanent brain damage injuries will also receive the same amount to pay for their medical bills and whatever else they need.

Although money will not bring back the 58 innocent lives lost during that incident, each family can use the donation to their own discretion and continue that healing process with another piece added back into the puzzle.

“In no way can it replace someone’s life,” said Al Etcheber, the brother-in-law of Stacee Etcheber, who died at the festival, to Billboard. “Still, it is a real nice way to help families who lost someone they loved.”

In total, the nonprofit will make payments to 532 victims, including a total of $10 million being divided between 147 people who were hospitalized.

The GoFundMe page was started just after the October shooting, with a nonprofit picking it up into a corporation of sorts. They managed to receive more than 90,000 donations with some financial gifts given to the charitable cause by southern Nevada gambling companies, tourism and entertainment businesses.

In early October, a man shot down at the Route 91 Harvest Festival held in Las Vegas during Jason Aldean’s Sunday night set. The aftermath of the massacre left 58 dead and hundreds more injured from the attack. The gunman killed himself with a self-inflicted gun wound as cops made their way up to his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay.

The Route 91 tragedy was deemed as the worst mass shooting in modern American history.