Authorities identify Las Vegas shooter; say 50 dead and 406 injured (VIDEO)

Las Vegas police identified the gunman responsible for killing 50 people and injuring some 406 others at a concert at Mandalay Bay Casino on Sunday night.

From a room on the 32nd floor of the casino’s hotel, Stephen Craig Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada, opened fire around 10:08 pm on a crowd of more than 22,000 people attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival, Las Vegas police said in a statement.

A SWAT team breached Paddock’s hotel room door and found him dead of an apparent suicide. He had more than 10 firearms in the room with him. Details regarding Paddock’s motive have not been released by investigators yet.

“I think it’s important to understand that this investigation is going to be long and contracted before we get to the bottom of everything associated with it,” said Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo during a press conference Monday morning to identify the shooter.

He added that investigators have not yet completed their investigation into Paddock’s background. His team is also receiving support from other local and federal authorities. Investigators are currently executing a search warrant on Paddock’s hotel room and home.

Lombardo said that authorities have also located a woman associated with Paddock, Marilou Danley, but they did not specify what her role was in the shooting other than calling her “an associate of the lone gunman.” Lombardo called her a “female person of interest.”

Among the dead is a Las Vegas police officer who was off-duty and attending the concert. His name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, police said.

Two officers on duty at the time of the shooting were injured. One was listed in critical condition but has been upgraded to stable. The other suffered non-life threatening wounds.

In updates, Lombardo clarified that Paddock was a lone gunman and did not fire from multiple locations.

Staff Writer Chris Eger contributed to the reporting of this article

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