Jason Aldean remembers Route 91 Harvest victims: 'This will always be a tough day for us'

More Tuesday marks a heartbreaking anniversary for country music fans and their loved ones. It was on Oct. 1, 2017, that 58 people died and more than 400 were wounded while attending the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas when a gunman fired into the crowd from the nearby Mandalay Bay Hotel. Singer Jason Aldean, who was onstage when the shooting began, acknowledged the sad event with a statement shared on social media: “This will always be a tough day for us,” he wrote. Aldean added that he thinks about the victims daily.