WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto issued the following press release:
Washington, D.C. -Today, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto released the following statement on the ninth anniversary of the Route 91 Harvest Festival Massacre, the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history:
"On October 1, 2017, the city of Las Vegas, the state of Nevada, and the entire United States were shaken to their cores when 58 people were killed and nearly 500 were injured at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival. Two more people died later from their injuries. It's been nine years since that harrowing day and the weeks that followed, but I still remember it so clearly.
"Those were some of our darkest days as a city, and I know it was fe...