As many as 30 people at Borderline on Wednesday night also attended last year’s Las Vegas festival, music fan Cory Spellman, 27, told HuffPost. She described the bar as a community that included dozens of people who also attended the Vegas festival. “We’re one big family,” said Spellman, who was not at the bar Wednesday night.

Katie Ray, 25, also survived the Vegas shooting with her fiance, whom she met at Borderline. She told HuffPost that the bar, where she has been a regular since 2014, was “a place of healing” for the tight-knit group of Vegas survivors.

“For many of us, it was seeing each others’ faces in the bar again that brought us a huge sense of relief,” she said.