Calla Marie Medig, a 28-year-old Caucasian female from Jasper, Alberta, Canada, had traveled to Las Vegas in late September 2017 for what had become an annual tradition. It was her third time attending the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, a trip she took with her best friend. She was in a celebratory mood, having recently been promoted to a manager position at the Moxie's restaurant where she worked in Edmonton.
Friends and colleagues described her as a fun-loving, kind-hearted, and responsible person with an infectious personality.
On the night of October 1, 2017, Medig was in the crowd of about 22,000 concertgoers when a gunman opened fire from a suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel. The shooter, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, unleashed a barrage of over 1,000 rounds into the unsuspecting audience below. In the ensuing chaos, Medig was struck by gunfire. Her friend was able to get her to a hospital, but she succumbed to her injuries, one of 60 people killed in the attack. She was one of four Canadians who died in the massacre.
The perpetrator, Stephen Paddock, was found dead in his hotel room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound when police breached the door more than an hour after the shooting began. He acted alone, and no other suspects were ever identified or arrested in connection with the mass shooting. Investigators found a large arsenal of firearms in his hotel suite and at his home. Despite extensive investigations by local and federal law enforcement, a clear motive for the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history has never been determined.
