Survivor of Las Vegas shooting starts fund for first responders

By Andrew Shepperson

Chad and Jennifer Robertson snapped a photo at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, just 30 minutes before the shooting started. (Photo: Jennifer Robertson/Farmington Daily Times)
A Las Vegas shooting survivor has started a fund for the first responders who came to help during the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
The survivor, 38-year-old Chad Robertson, created the Las Vegas First Responder Thank You Fund to try and raise $100,000 in order to make 1,000 gift baskets for the first responders affected by the shooting, including police officers, firefighters, and nurses.
Robertson, a native of Farmington, New Mexico and the son of former Farmington Deputy Fire Chief Phil Robertson, told the Farmington Daily Times that he believed it was important to recognize all those who ran into harm’s way in order to try and help during the shooting, in which 58 people were killed and hundreds more injured.
“Those guys are victims as well,” Robertson said in a phone interview. “They’ll have a hard time going through things.”
The night of the shooting, Chad was at the Route 91 Harvest Festival with his wife Jennifer, standing 60 to 70 feet from the stage where country music star Jason Aldean

Source: Guns.com