MGM Resorts International said Tuesday it would donate $3 million toward the humanitarian assistance efforts that is supporting victims from the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip that killed 58 people left another 527 individuals wounded.
The nine-minute barrage of automatic gunfire on concert goers attending an outdoor music festival Sunday night shocked the community.
“There are simply no words to express our grief and outrage over this senseless and horrific attack on our community,” MGM Resorts Chairman and CEO Jim Murren said in in a statement.
The company said the money would also help organizations that provide support to first responders.
MGM Resorts owns both the Mandalay Bay and the festival grounds. A gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, fired at concert goers from a 32nd floor room at the hotel-casino.
In addition to the financial donation, MGM Resorts is providing lodging, meals, air and ground transportation and grief counseling to victims, families and first responders.
Murren said the company was “inspired” by the “heroic stories of victims on the ground who placed the safety of strangers and loved ones before themselves, to the incredible bravery of first responders who rushed in when others were rushing out.”
He said the efforts of private citizens “surely lessened the damage.”
“With this donation, we hope to make a difference to those who were harmed and those who are left behind,’ Murren said. “We also wish to recognize the awesome contributions of first responders, not just here in Las Vegas but around the United States, who give so completely of themselves when disaster strikes.”
Murren thanked “the global community who remind us from moment to moment that we are not alone.”
Other gaming companies, including Station Casinos and Boyd Gaming Corp., have pledged financial support to aid the gunshot victims.
A GoFundMe set up to aid the victims and their families had surpassed $8 million as of late Tuesday. The fund has received more than 57,000 individual donations so far, including $100,000 from entertainer Wayne Newton and his wife, Kathleen, and $500,000 from one anonymous local resident.
The Vegas Golden Knights hockey team, the Foley Family Charitable Trust and the National Hockey League announced a $300,000 donation to support victims and the first responders.
