Two people with connections to the Washington, D.C., area have been identified as victims of the Las Vegas shooting that left at least 58 dead and injured hundreds of others.
Stephen Paddock, 64, unleashed gunfire on attendees of the Route 91 Harvest Festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. Fifty-eight people were killed and more than 500 were wounded in the attack. Paddock killed himself before police reached his hotel room.
Tina Frost, who grew up in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and went to Arundel High School, was shot in the head but survived. Her family said the bullet lodged in her right eye, and doctors had to remove the eye.
"It was shocking to have one of your best friends that you grew up with a victim of this horrid act," said Taylor Johnson, who played soccer with Frost for years and shared her love of country music. Recently, Frost and Johnson were bridesmaids together.
The family said Frost is in a coma and on a ventilator but mostly breathing on her own. Brain scans show no additional swelling.
Her parents are by her side and staying positive, a family spokesperson said. Her father said she is responding to stimuli.
"It's a different outcome than we would've wanted, but it could've been a worse outcome," Johnson said.
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Frost’s family credits her boyfriend with saving her life. After she was shot, he carried her to the truck of a stranger, who drove her to a hospital.
"There's going to be no stopping her,” Johnson said. “I know she’s going to overcome this. It's going to be one day at a time, but she'll make it."
A GoFundMe page has been set up to cover expenses "related to this tragic event such as traveling, food, hotels, missed work, and caring for Tina."
Denise Burditus, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was attending the concert with her husband and posted a picture on Facebook of the two of them standing in front of the stage.
She died in the arms of her husband, Tony Burditis, who wrote on a Facebook post, "It saddens me to say that I lost my wife of 32 years, a mother of two, soon to be grandmother of five this evening in the Las Vegas shooting,"
Bill Wolfe, Jr. and his wife, Robyn, were celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary in Las Vegas. Bill Wolfe, Jr., a youth wrestling and Little League baseball coach in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, about 100 miles from D.C., died in Sunday's attack.
A GoFundMe page has been set up for the Wolfe family to deal with costs "associated with a tragedy so far from home."
