Las Vegas Shooting: What We Know So Far

by Scott Creighton

Las Vegas Metro Police Sheriff Joseph Lombardo says at least 50 people are believed to have been killed in the attack at the city’s Route 91 Harvest Festival at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas and there are another 200 or so reportedly injured. This makes the event the worst mass casualty event in U.S. history (absent 9/11 of course)

The 64-year-old gunman, Stephen Paddock from Vegas, is dead. Reportedly he opened fire from a window on the 32nd floor of the hotel which looked out over the festival crowd.

Police are looking for someone who lives with Paddock, a 62-year-old Asian woman named Marilou Danley.

He reportedly used a fully automatic weapon and opened fire out the window a number of times. Several videos of the attack are available online which recorded the odd sounding gunfire. Police say there were a number of firearms in his room.

According to the police, they identified the location of the shooter and went to the room where they killed Paddock (or found him dead already?)

Can’t wait for the security camera footage from the 32nd floor to be released.

At this time they are saying neither Paddock nor Danley have any ties to terrorism or extremist groups they know of. And they say he was “not known to law enforcement”. It’ll be a first if that holds up under scrutiny.

I will let you know more as I uncover it. Just the other day I was preparing to write an article about how the gun-grabbing mass casualty events ended suddenly last year in the run-up to the election and had mysteriously not continued after Trump’s victory.

Guess I can scrap that article.