Las Vegas shooting heartbreak: Nurse died saving his wife on first wedding anniversary

Sonny Melton, of West Tennessee, was killed in the shooting at a country music festival just off the famous Las Vegas strip on Sunday night.
His brother-in-law confirmed he had died at the Route 90 Harvest festival.
He had been at the festival with his surgeon wife, Heather Gulish Melton, when Stephen Paddock, 64, shot multiple rounds into the crowd from the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel and casino.
Mr Melton married his wife last summer, with Mrs Melton saying she is in complete disbelief and he had saved her.

She told local news station, Fox 17 News: "At this point, I'm in complete disbelief and despair. I don't know what to say.
"Sonny was the most kind-hearted, loving man I have ever met. He saved my life and lost his."
Mr Melton's Facebook page revealed he is from Big Sandy, Tennessee, and he was a registered nurse at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital.
He was also a financial adviser at Modern Woodmen of America, leaving in 2011, according to his LinkedIn page.
In his last Facebook post he checked in to the Route 91 Harvest Festival, just minutes before the shooting.

Mr Melton
is among 59 people to have been confirmed dead from the shooting so far.

The death toll, which police emphasised was preliminary, would make the mass shooting the deadliest in US history, eclipsing last year's massacre of 49 people at an Orlando night club by a gunman who pledged allegiance to Islamic State militants.
Some 22,000 people were in the crowd when Paddock opened fire, sparking a panic in which some people trampled on others, as law enforcement officers scrambled to locate the gunman.
Shocked concertgoers, some with blood on their clothing, wandered the streets afterwards.
Police said they had no information about Paddock's motive, that he had no criminal record and was not believed to be connected to any militant group. Paddock killed himself before police entered the hotel room he was firing from, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters.

Mr Lombardo, said: ”We have no idea what his belief system was.”
A senior US government official said Paddock's name was not on any database of suspected terrorists.
Mr Lombardo said there were more than 10 rifles in the room where Paddock killed himself after checking into the hotel on Thursday.
The dead included one off-duty police officer, Mr Lombardo said.

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