A third person with Utah origins has died of injuries suffered in Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas.
Heather Warino Alvarado, the 35-year-old wife of Cedar City firefighter Albert Alvarado, died Monday night at a Las Vegas hospital, Cedar City police Sgt. Jerry Womack confirmed Tuesday. The couple have three children.
Fifty-nine people died after bullets rained down from a gunman’s 32nd floor room at the Mandalay Bay hotel onto a crowd of 22,000 packed into an outdoor country music festival venue. More than 500 others were injured by bullets, shrapnel, being trampled, or falling as they tried to escape by scaling 10-foot high fences, Las Vegas police said.
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the entire Alvarado/Warino family,” Womack wrote in a statement.
A statement from Albert Alvarado — who had not attended the Route 91 Harvest Festival — said his wife “always saw the good in others,” and had spent her life serving her family and community. They loved traveling, he said, from day trips to ocean cruises.
“She was happiest when she was together with her family, especially her children and she would do ANYTHING for them,” the statement from Albert Alvarado said.
Friends and family on Monday had still been trying to track down Alvarado and learn details of her condition.
“Checking to see if all of you are ok?” Tammy Anderson wrote on her friend‘s profile picture, which appeared to be taken at the festival on Friday afternoon. It showed a grinning Alvarado alongside several friends, with a music stage in the background.
“Heather was always the first to help anyone and was always so loving,” wrote her friend Megan Gadd.
For those wishing to contribute to funeral, medical and other costs, an account has been opened at the State Bank of Utah in Heather Alvarado’s name. A GoFundMe page also has been set up to help the family.
On Monday authorities had confirmed onetime Salt Lake City resident Neysa Tonks, 46, and St. George-area resident Cameron Robinson, 28, also had died in the massacre.
Las Vegas police ended the Sunday night horror when they stormed the hotel room from where Stephen Paddock allegedly had fired hundreds of rounds from an automatic weapon into the crowd below.
Inside, they found Paddock dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, surrounded by nearly two dozen firearms and bags of ammunition.
His motives for the attack remained a mystery as of Tuesday.
Correction: Oct. 3, 5:28 p.m. >> An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the number of people who died in Sunday’s Las Vegas shooting. It is 59.