The police chief in Maui has been pleading for patience while the bodies of victims of Hawaii’s deadly wildfires are found and identified.
FILE - This undated photo released by the County of Maui shows Maui Police Chief John Pelletier. Pelletier has been pleading for patience while bodies of victims of Hawaiis deadly wildfires are found and identified. He has also recalled the excruciating experience of notifying relatives after another sudden and massive tragedy nearly six years ago, in Las Vegas.
Pelletier was a Las Vegas police captain when a gunman with military-style rifles opened fire from the windows of a Las Vegas Strip high-rise hotel into a crowd of 22,000 attending an outdoor country music festival. The violence shook the city to its core, like the wildfire has done in Maui. in modern U.S. history. Lombardo is now the Republican governor of Nevada. McMahill is the sheriff and head of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.Pelletier was commander of the tourist district that includes the Las Vegas Strip before he became Maui police chief in December 2021.“Aloha,” Pelletier said as he approached the podium to speak at Monday's news conference.
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