Crime & Safety
Las Vegas Shooting: North Pole Dad Shot 3 Times, Friend Says
In a personal note on his real estate website, the victim said he enjoys the outdoors and operates a business called Santa's Fireworks.
NORTH POLE, AK —A North Pole, Alaska, father-of-three was near the front stage of a Jason Aldean concert in Las Vegas, Nevada, late Sunday with some friends when a gunman in a nearby hotel opened fire on the crowd, according to friend and real estate broker Mike Vansickle. Fellow real estate agent Rob McIntosh, 52, was shot three times but is expected to survived, Vansickle said.
"From just getting off the phone with the family, he took three bullets to his body," said Vansickle. "He just came out of surgery, and he's going to make it."
In a personal note on his real estate website, McIntosh said he enjoys the outdoors and operates a business called Santa's Fireworks. (For more information on the Las Vegas shooting and other Across Alaska stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)
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"Whether I'm fishing, snow machining, hunting, steel welding or building my own home or cabin; I stay active all year round," McIntosh wrote.
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McIntosh said he attended Glennallen High School and graduated in 1983 before getting an Associates Degree in business from McPherson College in Kansas. He then got a Bachelor's Degree in science and physical education from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
His son Reily lives in Las Vegas and plays hockey for the Las Vegas Storm.
Vansickle described McIntosh as being strong.
"He's been though lots of adversity," said Vansickle. "He'll get through all this and come out with some stories to tell."
Stephen Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada, was armed with more than a half-dozen firearms – some of them high-powered automatic weapons – when he started shooting from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino at a crowd gathered for a music festival. In the span of about two minutes, he massacred at least 58 people and injured more than 500 others in the deadliest mass shooting in United States history. Then, as police closed in on him, the gunman killed himself, officials said.
Family members say a commercial fisher from Anchorage was also slain, though they haven't received official confirmation.
Photo credit: Yasmina Chavez/Las Vegas Sun via AP