Several Nevada dignitaries including Governor Joe Lombardo remembered the Las Vegas mass shooting eight years ago in a sunrise ceremony on Wednesday.

Clark County and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department co-hosted the annual 1October Sunrise Remembrance Ceremony.

58 people died the night of the shooting, with two additional victims dying months later from their wounds. More than 850 people were injured.

This year's ceremony included a minute of silence and also remarks from Gov. Joe Lombardo and Sheriff Kevin McMahill.

"There's one important truth about 1October. The scars never fade and the healing is ongoing. Eight years later, people are still hurting. Mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers and sons and daughters are forever missing from around the family dinner table. Chairs sit empty and hearts forever have empty places in them," McMahill said. 

Lombardo was sheriff when the shooting happened. 

Clark County Commission Chairman Tick Segerblom, and Jeff Poole of Simi Valley, California also attended the annual event.

Poole’s daughter, Keri Lynn Galvan, was among those who died in the immediate aftermath of the attack. She was married and the mother of three children.

Previously, lawmakers vowed to complete a permanent memorial to the victims and survivors by the 10th anniversary. 

A final design for the memorial, which will feature candle-like beams, was approved after three years of planning stalled by the pandemic.

The permanent memorial will be separate from a community healing garden built in downtown Las Vegas by more than 1,000 volunteers in the days after the shooting.

(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)