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At least 50 dead, 400 injured in Las Vegas shooting; suspect had at least 10 guns
More than 50 people were killed and "well over" 400 were injured when
a gunman opened fire on concertgoers from a perch above the Mandalay
Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas Sunday night, police said, making it
the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.
The "nonstop
gunfire," according to one witness, sent more than 22,000 attendees of a
country music festival across the street from the hotel ducking for
cover and scrambling for their lives. Police say the suspect, who was
found dead, had over 10 rifles.
Bystanders sprang into action, caring for the wounded and at least one of them described a man's dying in his arms.
A Las Vegas police officer who was off-duty attending the concert is among the dead, police said.
One video showed the aftermath as the injured lay on
stretchers or on the ground with responders and bystanders surrounding
them to give aid. Bystanders made makeshift stretchers out of police
barricades, plugged wounds with their hands and used their clothing to
try to stanch the bleeding from the wounded.
In the wake of the shooting, the
Las Vegas Police Department said authorities responded to a hotel room
on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, where police said the
suspected gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, was dead. Police said
they believe Paddock, of Mesquite, Nevada, killed himself prior to
police entry.
The motive was unclear. A senior law enforcement official told ABC News that so far there are no ties to international terror.
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