Muzzle flashes could be seen in the dark as the gunman fired away. He had just begun the song “When She Says Baby,” and the first burst of nearly 50 shots crackled as he sang, “It’s tough just getting up.” The shooting started as Aldean closed out the three-day Route 91 Harvest Festival. He eventually pushed his way out of the crowd and found refuge in the nearby Tropicana hotel-casino, where he kicked in a door to an engineering room and spent hours there with others who followed him. But like I said, I knew we had to get out of there.” “It’s literally running for your life and you don’t know what decision is the right one. “No one knew what to do,” Schneider said. The sound of people running on the bleachers added to the confusion, and Schneider thought the concert was being invaded with multiple shooters. Near the stage, Dylan Schneider, a country singer who performed earlier in the day, huddled with others under the VIP bleachers, where he turned to his manager and asked, “Dude, what do we do?” He said he repeated the question again and again over the next five minutes.īodies were lying on the artificial turf installed in front of the stage, and people were screaming and crying. Anybody have eyes on him … stop the shooter.”
“We need to stop the shooter before we have more victims. “We can’t worry about the victims,” an officer said at 10:15 p.m. Police frantically tried to locate him and determine whether the gunfire was coming from Mandalay Bay or the neighboring Luxor hotel.Īt 10:14 p.m., an officer said on his radio that he was pinned down against a wall on Las Vegas Boulevard with 40 to 50 people. The shooting began at 10:07 p.m., and the gunman appeared to fire unhindered for more than 10 minutes, according to radio traffic. More than 12 hours after the massacre, bodies covered in white sheets were still being removed from the festival grounds. They also opened a “family reunification center” for people to find loved ones. With hospitals jammed with victims, authorities put out a call for blood donations and set up a hotline to report missing people and speed the identification of the dead and wounded.
And it always has.” He ordered flags flown at half-staff. In an address to the country, President Donald Trump called the bloodbath “an act of pure evil” and added: “In moments of tragedy and horror, America comes together as one. The FBI said it found nothing so far to suggest the attack was connected to international terrorism, despite a claim of responsibility from the Islamic State group, which said Paddock was a “soldier” who had recently converted to Islam. Also, several pounds of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer that can be turned into explosives such as those used in the 1995 Oklahoma bombing, were in his car, the sheriff said. official briefed by law enforcement who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still unfolding.Īt Paddock’s home, authorities found 19 more guns, explosives and thousands of rounds of ammunition. They found two gun stocks that allow the shooter to replicate fully automatic fire, and are investigating whether weapons used in the massacre had those modifications, according to a U.S. Paddock had 23 guns - some with scopes - in his hotel room, authorities said. The motive for the attack remained a mystery, with Sheriff Joseph Lombardo saying: “I can’t get into the mind of a psychopath at this point.”
NEW VEGAS SILENT SNIPER WINDOWS
The avid gambler who according to his brother made a small fortune investing in real estate had been staying there since Thursday and had busted out windows to create his sniper’s perch roughly 500 yards from the concert grounds.
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