Las Vegas shooting survivors memorialize event with tattoos
OGDEN, Utah — Four Utah women who survived a mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music festival are memorializing their experiences with matching tattoos.
Laura Farthing, Shelley Burch, Lori Wilson and Alyssa Hodges took a trip to Las Vegas to enjoy the Route 91 Harvest festival earlier this month. The four women wound up being witnesses and survivors of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
The Route 91 tattoo design they are wearing resembles a poker chip with “10.1.17” — the date of the shooting — written in thin letters above it.
The group hadn’t been friends for very long when they made the trip to the festival. Burch and Farthing met years ago, but Farthing met Wilson and her daughter, Hodges, less than a year before the trip. Burch lives in Layton, Farthing and Wilson live in the Salt Lake City area, and Hodges lives in Plain City, the Standard-Examiner reported .