Coroner attributes California death to Vegas mass shooting
An investigation confirmed that Kimberly May Gervais died Nov. 15 from complications of spine injuries she received in the 2017 shooting.
FILE – In this Sept. 30, 2018, file photo, people visit a makeshift memorial for victims of the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting in Las Vegas. A coroner in Southern California has attributed the death of a woman to wounds she received in the Las Vegas mass shooting in October 2017. The decision by authorities in San Bernardino County would add Kimberly May Gervais to the list of 58 people killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
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LAS VEGAS (NewsNation) — The death of a California woman last November stemmed from wounds she received in the Las Vegas mass shooting in 2017, a coroner has determined.
The decision by authorities in San Bernardino County, California, could add Kimberly May Gervais to the list of 58 people killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
However, Las Vegas police do not plan to adjust the death toll, said Officer Larry Hadfield, a department spokesman. He declined Tuesday to comment about Gervais’ death.
An investigation completed Friday confirmed that Gervais died Nov. 15 from complications of spine injuries she received in the Oct. 1 shooting, said Mike Sutcliffe, a San Bernardino County coroner’s supervisor.
Gervais, of Redlands, was a quadriplegic after being wounded in the neck. She died at Redlands Community Hospital at the age of 57.
Her daughter, Amber Manka, of Corona, California, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal she wanted her mother remembered with victims of the shooting. The newspaper was first to report the coroner findings.
Gervais, a lifelong country music fan, attended the festival where the attack occurred with her friends Pati Mestas and Dana Smith, the Review-Journal said. Mestas, 67, of Menifee, California, died in the shooting.
Authorities said more than 850 people were injured, including more than 400 who sustained gunshot wounds, when a gunman firing military-style weapons rained bullets from 32nd-floor hotel windows into a concert crowd of about 22,000 at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip.
The gunman killed himself before police reached him in a suite at the Mandalay Bay resort.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
