UF Student Shot In Las Vegas Massacre ID’d: Report

GAINESVILLE, FL — A third-year law student from the University of Florida was among the hundreds injured when bullets rained down on the crowd of more than 20,000 gathered for Sunday’s Route 91 Harvest country music fest in Las Vegas.

UF President W. Kent Fuchs confirmed on Monday that one his students was injured in the Oct. 1 massacre, considered the deadliest in modern American history. Fuchs, however, offered very few details while sharing the news on Twitter. (For more local news from Florida, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Land O’ Lakes Patch, and click here to find your local Florida Patch. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

More information about the woman and her condition were shared by the school’s student newspaper, The Independent Florida Alligator. The student has been identified as Kristin Babik, who attends the Levin College of Law. Babik suffered broken ribs and a collapsed lung when she was shot, the paper said.

The Victims Of The Las Vegas Shooting

Fuchs reported on Monday that Babik was in stable condition. That message was also shared on a GoFundMe campaign launched to help offset the medical bills Babik will face.

Babik flew into Las Vegas from Florida for a weekend stay. “She expected a fun time with good music and time spent with friends,” the fundraiser page states. “Instead of that, she experienced the worst imaginable experience, she was hit by a bullet from a stranger she had never met or harmed.”

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The fundraiser has a goal of $100,000. By Tuesday morning, nearly $13,000 had been raised.

The massacre occurred at the end of the three-day Route 91 festival. Shots rang out while Jason Aldean was on stage, entertaining a crowd of more than 20,000 outside the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino.

Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo reported Monday morning the shooter, who perched in a room on the hotel’s 32nd floor, is Stephen Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada. Paddock, Lombardo said, was dead by the time officers breached his room. Before Paddock’s death, police say he killed 59 people and left more than 500 injured, including Babik.

For more information on donating to help with Babik’s medical bills, visit GoFundMe online.

Photo used with permission from GoFundMe via the “Help Kristin, Vegas Shooting Victim” fundraiser page.