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"Las Vegas shooting" redirects here. For other uses, see Las Vegas shooting (disambiguation).
2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting
2017 Las Vegas shooting is located in Las Vegas Strip
Las Vegas Village
Las Vegas Village
Mandalay Bay
Mandalay Bay
LocationLas Vegas Strip, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
Coordinates36°5′42″N 115°10′18″W / 36.09500°N 115.17167°W / 36.09500; -115.17167
DateOctober 1, 2017
about 10:08–11:58 p.m. (PDT; UTC−07:00)
TargetAudience of the Route 91 Harvest music festival
Attack type
Mass shooting, murder–suicide
WeaponsDaniel Defense DDM4[1]
FN 15 semi-automatic rifle[1]
SIG Sauer MCX[2]
Deaths59 (including the perpetrator)[3]
Injured530[3]
PerpetratorStephen Paddock
MotiveUnknown

On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. A gunman opened fire on the outdoor festival crowd from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino across Las Vegas Boulevard during the closing performance by singer Jason Aldean.

The shooter, whose motive remains unknown, was identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nevada. He was found dead in his hotel room with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. With 59 fatalities (including the perpetrator) and 530 injuries,[3] the massacre surpassed the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting as the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history.[4]

Background

The Route 91 Harvest country music festival has been held annually since 2014 at Las Vegas Village, a 15-acre (6.1-hectare) lot used for outdoor performances. The venue is 450 meters (490 yards)[5] from the Mandalay Bay hotel in Paradise, Nevada,[6] on the opposite side of Las Vegas Boulevard.[7][a] On October 1, 2017, singer Jason Aldean was giving the closing performance of the third and final day of the festival. The 2017 event was attended by about 22,000 people.[8]

Shooting

Paddock fired a weapon from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel into the Las Vegas Village.[a]

During Jason Aldean's performance, Stephen Paddock fired hundreds of rifle rounds into the festival audience from two windows that he had broken with a hammer[9] in his hotel suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.[10][b] The attack began at about 10:08 p.m. PDT.[11][12] Many people in the crowd initially mistook the gunfire for fireworks.[13] The gunfire continued intermittently over the course of ten minutes.[14]

A fire alarm was activated by smoke detectors that detected gun smoke, helping police locate the shooter.[15] By around 10:25 p.m., a group of law enforcement officers had reached the hotel's 32nd floor and locked it down.[16] When they announced themselves outside his suite, Paddock fired through the door, wounding a hotel security guard.[17] At around 11:21 p.m., police breached the room with explosives.[16] The perpetrator was found dead, having shot himself before the police entered.[18][19][20][21] At 11:58 p.m. the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said that one suspect was down.[22]

Bump fire stock fitted to a WASR 10 AK-47.

A large quantity of ammunition and 23 firearms were found, including the AR-15 and Kalashnikov, and .308 caliber rifles;[23] two of the rifles were mounted on tripods and were equipped with telescopic sights.[24][25] Audio recordings of the attack indicated that the perpetrator could have used a bump fire device or trigger activator to simulate full automatic operation.[26] A bump fire stock was found in the room,[27][28] and 12 of Paddock's guns in total were found to be fitted with such stocks.[29] Authorities said Paddock had brought more than 10 suitcases to the room.[10] Investigators also found cameras placed inside and outside the hotel room, presumably so Paddock could monitor the arrival of police.[30]

Casualties

At least 58 people (excluding the perpetrator) were killed as a result of the shootings, including three who died in the days immediately after the incident.[31][32] At least 530 people were injured,[3] and many were sent to hospitals that included the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada and Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center.[7][33][34][35]

Perpetrator

Main article: Stephen Paddock

The gunman was identified as Stephen Craig Paddock (April 9, 1953 – October 1, 2017), born in Iowa.[36][37] He lived in a retirement community in Mesquite, Nevada.[8][38] Police found 23 firearms (22 rifles and one handgun) inside the hotel room he had occupied since September 28.[13][39] According to police, he acted alone with no known motive.[20][40] Police have not described him as a terrorist.[41][42] They said they had no investigative information or criminal history showing he was dangerous. His only recorded interaction with law enforcement was a citation years before the shooting, which he settled in court.[43]

The location of the shooting at Las Vegas Village is on the right, behind the two grey columns. The Mandalay Bay hotel (the gold building) is visible to the left.[44][b][c]

Paddock had retired from being an Internal Revenue Service agent (1977–1984) and a postal letter carrier.[45] He was also an accountant and multi-millionaire real estate investor, according to his brother.[46][47] He owned and managed some apartment buildings with his mother.[38]

He had lived for part of his youth in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, graduating from John H. Francis Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles in 1971.[48] Between 1985 and 1988, he worked for a predecessor company of Lockheed Martin, a defense contractor. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he lived and moved between Texas and California. In 2004, he moved to Mesquite, Texas, a suburb outside of Dallas, and lived there until at least 2012.[37][49] In 2012, he moved to Reno, Nevada, and kept a registered address there until December 2016. Between 2013 and 2015, he had a registered address in Melbourne, Florida.[50][49] In June 2016, he registered in Mesquite, Nevada.[49] He had been a licensed private pilot since at least 2003 and had previously owned two small aircraft.[51] The week before the massacre, Paddock wired US$100,000 to an account in the Philippines.[52]

Police, relatives, and neighbors described Paddock as a high-stakes gambler who also enjoyed going to music concerts and traveling on cruises.[53][43] Police said he had made casino transactions in the tens of thousands of dollars prior to the shooting, but did not specify whether these transactions were losses or wins.[54] Court records show he married and divorced twice. His first marriage was from 1977 to 1979. He remarried in 1985 and divorced in 1990, and had a girlfriend at the time of the shooting. He had no children. His younger brother and others who were in close contact with him described him as an ordinary man with no apparent religious or political affiliation.[55] Some of his neighbors said they rarely saw him and described him as quiet, solitary, and unfriendly. They said they recalled seeing his girlfriend more than him.[43] They also said he did not appear to be mentally unstable. His brother said he was a passionate pilot and excelled in sports growing up, but was never part of a team or club, because he did not enjoy them.[55]

Paddock's father, Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, was a bank robber who was placed on the FBI's most-wanted list in 1969 after he escaped from federal prison; he was taken off the list in 1977.[56][57] The FBI wanted poster said he was "diagnosed as psychopathic" and had "reportedly suicidal tendencies".[43] His younger son never met him and profilers rejected the idea that the shooting was a way for Stephen to emulate their father's criminal tendencies.[55]

Aftermath and reactions

Main article: Reactions to the 2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting

A large portion of Las Vegas Boulevard was shut down as police SWAT teams combed the venue and neighboring casinos, hotels, and businesses. McCarran International Airport, immediately southeast of the festival site, was closed for several hours[58] and multiple flights were rerouted or canceled due to the shooting. Some individuals escaping the shooting entered the airport property as they fled.[13] At approximately 2:45 p.m. PDT on October 2, a state of emergency was declared by Clark County.[59][60]

Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval called the shooting "a tragic and heinous act of violence that has shaken the Nevada family".[61] Via Twitter, President Donald Trump sent his "warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible Las Vegas shooting".[62] In a public press conference the following morning, he declared the shooting an "act of pure evil", a "senseless murder", and a "terrible, terrible attack" by a "sick man. A demented man."[63] He praised the "miraculous" quick response of first responders and announced he would visit them in Las Vegas on October 4, as well as survivors and victims' relatives.[64] Jason Aldean, who was performing when the shooting started, posted his condolences on Instagram and noted that all of those working with him at the show had survived the attack.[65]

Stock prices of firearms manufacturers rose the day after the mass shooting due to increased gun sales over concerns that a such an event could lead to more stringent gun-control legislation as well as a rush of customers to defend themselves against future attacks.[66][67]

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed Paddock was their soldier, inspired by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's call to attack coalition countries.[68] However, the FBI said "we have determined, to this point, no connection with an international terrorist group."[69] ISIL provided no evidence for its claim, and terrorism experts noted that since losing control of Mosul, the pro-ISIL Amaq News Agency had on at least two previous occasions made false claims of responsibility for attacks with which ISIL had no connection.[70][71]

Internet hoaxes and misinformation

In the hours after the shooting, false information about the shooter's identity and motive, circulated by political fringe websites and Internet forums such as 4chan, went viral on social media.[72] The right-wing website The Gateway Pundit misidentified the shooter as a man who was supposedly a member of the US Democratic Party. The 4chan thread on which this misinformation was based was briefly featured in the "Top Stories" section of a Google search for the man's name.[73][74] The fake news website YourNewsWire spread false information about a second gunman shooting from the fourth floor of the hotel.[75] Two of Facebook's top trending pages were items from Sputnik, a Russian government news agency that has been described as a propaganda outlet.[76]

Media commentators criticized Google and Facebook for prominently displaying such fake news in some of their search results.[76][77][78] and for refusing "to take responsibility for their active role in damaging the quality of information reaching the public".[79] Facebook later admitted that its algorithms to detect and remove false stories failed to work adequately in relation to the shooting, and that it needed fixing.[77]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c For (1) aerial photo of Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Luxor Hotel & Casino, and the site of the country music festival, and (2) aerial graphic of neighboring casinos (Tropicana, Excalibur Hotel & Casino, MGM Grand, New York-New York Hotel & Casino) and McCarran International Airport—in addition to Mandalay Bay, Luxor, and the site of the country music festival—see: Long, Heather; Berman, Mark; Hawkins, Derek (October 2, 2017). "Las Vegas gunman kills at least 58 in shooting rampage, 500 more injured". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
  2. ^ a b For (1) a graphic of the Route 91 Harvest Festival site (including the direction in which people fled, the bleachers under which people took cover, and an eight-foot fence over which people climbed), and (2) a graphic of the floor plan of the gunman’s hotel suite and adjacent room (with connecting door), see: "Chaos at a Concert and a Frantic Search at Mandalay Bay". The New York Times. October 2, 2017. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
  3. ^ For a graphic of the Route 91 Harvest festival site (not in detail) and the Mandalay Bay, see: Crosby, Rachel; Brean, Henry; Hassan, Anita; Munks, Jamie; Bekker, Jessie (October 3, 2017). "'It was a horror show': Mass shooting leaves at least 59 dead, 527 wounded on Las Vegas Strip". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved October 3, 2017.

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