Local governments and community groups are hosting several events this week urging togetherness to mark the eighth anniversary of the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music festival, which remains the deadliest act of gun violence in modern U.S. history.

From a 22,000-piece Clark County Museum exhibit that opened Monday, to city- and county-planned remembrance ceremonies, the public events help bring a sense of community for those who were impacted by the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting, Tennille Pereira, director of the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada’s Resiliency & Justice Center, said in an email.

On Oct. 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire from a high-rise suite at the Mandalay Bay that overlooked the festival grounds. According to the Metropolitan Police Departmen

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