Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Some Las Vegas shooting survivors struggle with mental illness
Nearly two months after a gunman opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest music festival crowd, Roy McClellan killed himself some 60 miles outside Las Vegas.
His story — one of good days and bad in the struggle against depression — is not unlike others in a community still grieving.
The morning after they had escaped the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the Strip, McClellan told his wife, Denise, “This is really messing with my head.”
Days later, with his wife’s encouragement, he entered counseling and continued for the next seven weeks.
But early on Nov. 17, Roy McClellan lay down in the right lane of state Route 160 near Homestead Road in Pahrump. His wife said she hadn’t heard from him for more than 11 hours. It was shortly after 1:30 a.m. when a Chevrolet Camaro struck him and sped off, investigators said. His death was ruled a suicide last week by the Clark County coroner.
Almost immediately after Oct. 1, Denise McClellan noticed a shift in her husband’s behavior.
“There was a lot of change after the shooting,”
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Some Las Vegas shooting survivors struggle with mental illness
Nearly two months after a gunman opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest music festival crowd, Roy McClellan killed himself some 60 miles outside Las Vegas.
His story — one of good days and bad in the struggle against depression — is not unlike others in a community still grieving.
The morning after they had escaped the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the Strip, McClellan told his wife, Denise, “This is really messing with my head.”
Days later, with his wife’s encouragement, he entered counseling and continued for the next seven weeks.
But early on Nov. 17, Roy McClellan lay down in the right lane of state Route 160 near Homestead Road in Pahrump. His wife said she hadn’t heard from him for more than 11 hours. It was shortly after 1:30 a.m. when a Chevrolet Camaro struck him and sped off, investigators said. His death was ruled a suicide last week by the Clark County coroner.
Almost immediately after Oct. 1, Denise McClellan noticed a shift in her husband’s behavior.
“There was a lot of change after the shooting,”
read the rest @ reviewjournal.com/crime/shootings/some-las-vegas-shooting-survivors-struggle-with-mental-illness
