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glass skyscraper and found he
had killed himself, authorities
said. The gunman, identifi ed
as Stephen Craig Paddock, a
64-year-old retiree from Mes-
quite, Nevada, had as many as
10 guns with him, including
rifl es, they said.
Asked about the motive for
the attack, Sheriff Joseph Lom-
bardo said: “I can’t get into the
mind of a psychopath at this
point.”
The sheriff said a check
of federal and state databases
showed Paddock was not on
law enforcement authorities’
radar before the bloodbath.
Aaron Rouse, the FBI agent
in charge in Las Vegas, said
investigators saw no immedi-
ate evidence connecting it to an
international terror organiza-
tion, despite a claim of respon-
sibility from the Islamic State
group.
Country music star Jason
Aldean was performing at the
Route 91 Harvest Festival in
front of a crowd of more than
22,000 when the gunman in the
44-fl oor Mandalay Bay Hotel
and Casino apparently used a
hammer-like device to smash
out windows in his room and
opened fi re, the muzzle fl ashes
visible in the dark, authorities
said.
The crowd, funneled tightly
into a wide-open space, had
little cover and no easy way
to escape. Victims fell to the
ground while others fl ed in
panic. Some hid behind con-
cession stands, while others
crawled under parked cars.
Kodiak Yazzie, 36, said the
music stopped briefl y after the
fi rst shots, then started up again
before a second round of pops
sent the performers ducking for
cover and fl eeing the stage.
“It was the craziest stuff
I’ve ever seen in my entire
life,” Yazzie said. “You could
hear that the noise was coming
from west of us, from Manda-
lay Bay. You could see a fl ash,
fl ash, fl ash, fl ash.”
Monique Dumas, of Brit-
ish Columbia, Canada, said
she was six rows from the
stage when she heard what she
thought was a bottle breaking,
then a popping that sounded to
her like fi reworks.
Couples held hands as they
ran through the dirt lot. Faces
were etched with shock and
confusion, and people wept
and screamed. Some were
bloodied, and some were car-
ried out by fellow concertgo-
ers. Dozens of ambulances
took away the wounded, while
some people loaded victims
into their cars and drove them
to the hospital.
The shooter appeared to fi re
unhindered for more than 10
minutes as Las Vegas police
frantically tried to locate the
man in one of the Manda-
lay Bay hotel towers, accord-
ing to radio traffi c. For several
minutes, offi cers could not tell
whether the automatic fi re was
coming from Mandalay Bay or
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Shawn Kilgore via AP
In this Sunday frame from
video, people leave the
scene of a deadly shooting
in Las Vegas. Multiple vic-
tims were being transported
to hospitals after a shooting
late Sunday at a music fes-
tival on the Las Vegas Strip.
AP Photo/John Locher
Drapes billow out of broken windows at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino Monday on the Las Vegas Strip following
a deadly shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas. A gunman was found dead inside a hotel room.
the neighboring Luxor hotel.
‘Pure evil’
In an address to the coun-
try, President Donald Trump
called the attack “an act of pure
evil” and added: “In moments
of tragedy and horror, America
comes together as one. And it
always has.” He ordered fl ags
fl own at half-staff.
Hospital
emergency
rooms were jammed with the
wounded. U.S. Rep. Ruben
Kihuen, a Democrat whose
congressional district includes
a portion of Las Vegas, visited
a hospital and said: “Literally,
every single bed was being
used, every single hallway was
being used. Every single per-
son there was trying to save a
life.”
Las Vegas authorities put
out a call for blood donations
and set up a hotline to report
missing people and speed the
identifi cation of the dead and
wounded. They also opened a
“family reunifi cation center”
for people to fi nd loved ones.
The dead included at least
three off-duty police offi cers
from various departments who
were attending the concert,
authorities said. Two on-duty
offi cers were wounded, one
critically, police said.
“It’s a devastating time,”
the sheriff said.
The sheriff said authorities
believe it was a “lone wolf”
attack but want to talk to Pad-
dock’s roommate, a woman
Lombardo said was out of
the country at the time of the
attack.
Paddock’s brother, Eric
Paddock, who lives in Florida,
told the Orlando Sentinel: “We
are completely dumbfounded.
We can’t understand what
happened.”
Astoria couple
Norm Stutznegger, of Asto-
ria, was in Las Vegas for a
quick getaway with his wife,
Catherine. He posted on Face-
book that they were outside
and a block away from the
shooting.
“The shots kept going off
and most folks thought it was
fi reworks from the concert,”
Stutznegger wrote. “I looked
at Cathy and said, ‘That’s an
automatic weapon.’ We went
inside our hotel and were put
on lockdown. Sirens went
off for over an hour and you
could see and hear total panic.
I have a police scanner app on
the phone so we listened to LV
Metro police. They are pretty
damn amazing if you ask me.
“The part that got us was
this morning seeing the casino
bare, the streets with no cars
and the absolute horror on
faces. I talked to several folks
and one guy watched his wife
get shot twice in the legs while
he was spared right next to her.
I can’t imagine. People talking
about not being able to get the
blood of others off of them. It’s
just horrible.”
Mayor Carolyn Goodman
said the attack was the work of
a “crazed lunatic full of hate.”
In its claim of responsibil-
ity, the Islamic State group said
the gunman was “a soldier”
who had converted to Islam
months ago. But it provided
no evidence, and the extremist
organization has been known
to make unsubstantiated claims
of responsibility for attacks
around the word.
The Islamic State group
also said it was responsible
for a June attack on a Manila
casino and shopping complex
where 37 died, mostly from
smoke inhalation — a claim
rejected by authorities, who
‘Beyond horrifi c’
said the lone attacker was a
heavily indebted Filipino gam-
bling addict.
On Monday, the U.S.
Homeland Security Depart-
ment said there was no “spe-
cifi c credible threat” involving
other public venues in the U.S.
Attorney General Jeff Ses-
sions offered the support of the
FBI and other federal agencies
but noted that the investiga-
tion is being led by the sheriff
in Las Vegas. That was seen as
another possible sign the shoot-
ing was not believed to be an
act of international terrorism.
Interstate 15 was briefl y
closed after the attack, and
fl ights at McCarran Interna-
tional Airport were suspended
for a while.
Nearly every inch of the
Las Vegas Strip is under video
surveillance, much of it set up
by the casinos to monitor their
properties. That could yield a
wealth of material for inves-
tigators as they try to piece
together the attack.
Hours after the shoot-
ing, Aldean posted on Insta-
gram that he and his crew were
safe and that the shooting was
“beyond horrifi c.”
“It hurts my heart that this
would happen to anyone who
was just coming out to enjoy
what should have been a fun
night,” the country star said.
Before Sunday, the dead-
liest mass shooting in modern
U.S. history took place in June
2016, when a gunman who
professed support for Muslim
extremist groups opened fi re
at a gay nightclub in Orlando,
Florida, killing 49 people.
Sunday’s shooting came
more than four months after a
suicide bombing at an Ariana
Grande concert in Manchester,
England, that killed 22 people.
Almost 90 people were killed
by gunmen inspired by Islamic
State at the Bataclan con-
cert hall in Paris during a per-
formance by Eagles of Death
Metal in 2015.
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