After Two Nervous Days, Family Learns Of Son’s Death In Vegas

After two days of waiting, a suburban Milwaukee couple learns that their son has died in the Las Vegas shootings. Richard and Mary Berger of Brookfield were told by Steve Berger’s friends Monday that he was among the hundreds shot at Sunday’s Route 91 country music festival. Relatives say Steve was celebrating his 44th birthday with six others — and they lost touch with him after he was shot in the chest or back by Stephen Paddock, who opened fire from his Mandalay Bay hotel room and killed 59 people and wounded about 530 others. Mary Berger says a coroner called her Tuesday to confirm his death. Steve Berger was a 1991 graduate of Wauwatosa West High School, and he lived in Shorewood, Minnesota where he was a financial adviser.