Iolans narrowly miss carnage

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October 3, 2017 - 12:00 AM

LAS VEGAS — An exhilarating weekend on their first-ever trip to Las Vegas quickly turned to horror for Iolans Toby and Ashley Shaughnessy.
The Shaughnessys were just blocks away Sunday evening when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire from a 32nd floor hotel room, spraying a fusillade into a crowded music festival below.
The attack, in which 59 died and more than 500 were injured, is the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
“It’s just surreal,” Toby Shaughnessy told the Register in a telephone interview Monday. “We went from having a…

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