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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2017
Las Vegas victims mourned: ‘She was a beautiful soul’
By JAY REEVES
Associated Press
Through tears and in heart-wrenching tributes, relatives and
friends are remembering the dozens of people killed in the shoot-
ing massacre on the Las Vegas strip.
Co-workers gazed silently into flickering candles at a vigil for
one victim, a former cheerleader from California who loved coun-
try music. Younger siblings absorbed the news that their beloved
big brother was gone.
Relatives of another victim waited for hours before getting the
worst news imaginable — that a mother of two who was initially
listed as missing had died. A man who loved the outdoors was
recalled for his smile — wide and freely given.
Here’s a glimpse at some of the people who died after a gun-
man opened fire from the 32nd floor of a hotel onto a crowd of
more than 22,000 at a country music festival in Las Vegas.
NEVADA OUTDOORSMAN:
‘THE KID WAS LOVED BY EVERYONE’
Quinton Robbins was the big brother who coached his little
brother’s flag football team, the prom king who was nice to every-
one regardless of their high school social standing, an outdoors-
man who loved to fish and boat around the lake.
“The kid was loved by everyone,” said his uncle, Mike Wells.
“He was popular in high school, but would walk up to the kid who
wasn’t so popular and befriend him and make him feel good.”
Robbins, 20, was among the people killed Sunday in Las
Vegas. He died moments after a bullet struck his chest and exited
through his lower back.
Robbins was up on his knees, looking for a spot to take his
girlfriend for shelter, when he was hit, said Wells, recounting
Robbins’ girlfriend’s account of the terrifying moments.
“I think I got shot,” Robbins looked at her and said before
collapsing.
“He died probably within seconds after the bullet hit him,”
Wells said.
Robbins leaves behind a younger brother and sister, who
adored him, as well as his parents, Wells said. His parents sat
beside Robbins, who had already died, until about 5 or 6 in the
morning, Wells said, before rushing home to make sure they
could tell his 11-year-old brother the news themselves.
Robbins was an active member of the Mormon church and had
hoped to go on a mission before he was diagnosed with diabetes
several years ago, Wells said. He worked for the athletic depart-
ment in his home city of Henderson, Nevada.
“The positive impact he had on everyone was huge,” Wells
said.
MOTHER OF TWO WAS ‘BEAUTIFUL SOUL’
Tara Roe Smith, 34, of Alberta, Canada, went to Las Vegas
with her husband Zach for a weekend getaway.
Her aunt, Val Rodgers, said Smith was among those who died
in the music festival shooting in Las Vegas.
“She was a beautiful soul. She was a wonderful mother and
our family is going to miss her dearly,” Rodgers said Tuesday.
Smith, the mother of two young boys, lived in Okotoks.
MOTHER-DAUGHTER
CONCERT DATE ENDS IN TRAGEDY
Heather Warino Alvarado made the three-hour drive from her
southern Utah home to Las Vegas to get away for the weekend
and take her daughter to a country music festival.
Her daughter was unharmed in the Sunday night shooting, but
the 35-year-old Warino Alvarado was one of at least 59 people
killed when a gunman opened fire at the concert-goers.
Friends and family received confirmation she had died Mon-
day night from Las Vegas police, according to a news release
Tuesday from the Cedar City Fire Department, where her hus-
band was a firefighter.
Warino Alvarado ran an in-home day care center in Cedar City,
Utah, and was a devoted wife and mother of three children who
was always willing to help others, said longtime friend Megan
Jackson Gadd.
“She has made huge impacts on those around her with even the
smallest gestures,” Jackson Gadd said in a Facebook messenger
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Flowers, candles and toys are left at a makeshift memorial
site on Las Vegas Boulevard on Tuesday in Las Vegas.
conversation. “A person like her will never be replaced or forgot-
ten and will be missed dearly every day for the rest of our lives.”
The daughter, whose age and identity is being kept private to
protect her privacy, is physically OK, she said.
CALIFORNIA WOMAN
REMEMBERED AS ‘THE PERKY ONE’
A one-time high school cheerleader who loved country music,
Bailey Schweitzer of Bakersfield, California, went to the Route
91 Harvest Festival to see some of her favorite acts.
A day after the 20-year-old’s death, co-workers at the software
company where she worked held a vigil. Friends and colleagues
gazed at white candles lit in her memory Monday night.
“No one could possibly have a bad day when Bailey was
around,” said a statement by Fred Brakeman, chief executive offi-
cer of Infinity Communications and Consulting, Inc., where Sch-
weitzer was a receptionist.
“If you have ever called or visited our office, she was the perky
one that helped direct you to the staff member you needed,” he
said.
Schweitzer graduated in 2015 from Centennial High School,
where she was a member of the cheerleading squad. On social
media she often posted photos from Bakersfield Speedway, a dirt
auto-racing track that her family owns.
‘EVERYBODY STARTED RUNNING FOR
COVER AND THE GUY KEPT SHOOTING’
Thomas Day Jr. was a big country music fan, so there was no
doubt he’d go to the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas, and
that he’d take his whole family with him.
Day, 54, of Corona, California, was one of 59 people killed
by a gunman who sprayed the concert with bullets from the 32nd
floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
“He was just a fun-loving boy, a great family man who loved
to spend time with his family,” said Thomas Day Sr. who spoke
on the phone, surrounded by his son’s four grown children at his
Las Vegas area home.
The elder Day, who lives near Las Vegas, said he was at home
Sunday night when he received a frantic telephone call from his
grandson and a granddaughter.
“They were standing right there and they said he and another
young man there both took a bullet in the head,” said Day, 75.
“Everybody started running for cover and the guy kept shooting.”
Day said none of his grandchildren were struck by bullets, but
his son was. A friend rushed Thomas Day Jr. to a hospital but
there was nothing doctors could do.
Struggling to speak, Day said his son loved his three daughters
and son and his two grandchildren. The whole group jumped at
the chance to drive to Las Vegas for the show.
“We always had fun together,” he said.
A GRUELING SEARCH FOR A MISSING
WOMAN, AND THEN THE WORST
Stacee Etcheber of Novato, California, was listed as missing
for hours before her family found got the worst possible news:
The mother of two was dead.
At the concert, her husband told her to hide, then to run, as
he helped a concertgoer next to him who had been shot, said Al
Etcheber, her brother-in-law.
Her husband, Vincent Etcheber, is a San Francisco police offi-
cer, and his training kicked in immediately when shots rang out,
Al Etcheber said.
He told Stacee and the couple’s three friends to protect them-
selves behind a nearby barrier. Then he told them to run, just
before the second round of shots rang out, Al Etcheber said.
He has not heard from Stacee since, and she was not carry-
ing an ID.
“It’s been a grueling 15 hours with no information,” Al Etche-
ber said Monday. On Tuesday morning, he posted on Facebook
that the worst fears had been realized — she was dead.
Stacee, 50, worked as a hairdresser. Al Etcheber called her a
loving wife and great mother who was “tough as nails and just the
salt of the earth.”
‘I CAN HEAR HER LAUGH ... RIGHT NOW’
Neysa Tonks’ employer remembered her as a “great mother,
colleague and friend.”
The 46-year-old mother of three boys worked for the Las
Vegas office of Technologent Inc., which offers technology solu-
tions to companies. She was killed in the shooting rampage at the
concert.
“Neysa has brought so much joy, fun and laughter to Tech-
nologent — she will be greatly missed by all!” said a statement
posted by the California-based company.
The company has set up a GoFundMe page to raise funds to
help her family.
Tonks grew up in Utah. Her brother, AJ Yerage, told the CBS
affiliate in Salt Lake City that he felt “lucky” that Tonks was a part
of his life and that she loved making jokes.
“I can hear her laugh, her voice in my head and my heart right
now,” Yerage told KUTV.
WRESTLING COACH SLAIN, TEAM
HELPING RAISE MONEY FOR SURVIVORS
Members of the Shippensburg Greyhound Wrestling team in
southern Pennsylvania are raising money to help the family of
coach Bill Wolfe, who is among the dead in Las Vegas.
A GoFundMe page established to accept donations for Wolfe’s
family quickly exceeded its goal of $10,000 after being shared
hundreds of times on social media, and team booster club said it
also was accepting checks to help with family with unexpected
expenses.
Wolfe initially was listed as missing Monday until his death
later was confirmed.
As an engineer, Wolfe spent several years working on major
projects for a central Pennsylvania engineering firm. There, a col-
league remembered him as being personable, easy to work with
and a devoted Christian. Company owner Carl Bert said Wolfe
was a close friend and “a class act in every way.”
The Chambersburg Public Opinion reported that Wolfe and his
wife Robyn were celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary in
Las Vegas.
‘CHEERFUL YOUNG LADY
WITH A WARM HEART’
Angela “Angie” Gomez died in the Las Vegas shooting,
according to a statement from the Riverside Unified School Dis-
trict in California.
Gomez graduated from Riverside Poly High School in 2015,
where she was a cheerleader. School staff remembered her as a
“fun-loving young lady with a great sense of humor.”
Gomez participated in the Riverside Children’s Theater and
was involved in choir. The school district said Gomez was a hard
worker who “always challenged herself academically.”
Friend Lupe Avila wrote in a tribute to Gomez online that she
was a “cheerful young lady with a warm heart and loving spirit.”
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