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2017 Las Vegas shooting
The 2017 Las Vegas shooting occurred on the night of Sunday, October 1 when a gunman opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers
at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in, leaving 58 people dead and 851 injured. Between 10:05 and 10:15p.m. PDT,
64-year-old Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nevada, fired more than 1,100 rounds from his suite on the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel.
About an hour after he fired his last shot into the crowd, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
His motive remains unknown. The incident is the deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in the United States.
It reignited the debate about gun laws in the U.S., with attention focused on bump fire stocks, which Paddock used
to allow his semi-automatic rifles to fire at a rate similar to that of a fully automatic weapon.
 Location 
The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard immediately south of the city of Las Vegas in Clark County, Nevada. The Strip is known
for its concentration of casinos and resort hotels, including the 43-story Mandalay Bay southwest of its intersection with Mandalay Bay Road,
in the unincorporated town of Paradise. Las Vegas Village, a 15 acre lot used for outdoor performances,
is located diagonally across the intersection to the northeast. From 2014 onward,
the venue hosted the annual Route 91 Harvest country music festival. The 2017 festival ran from September 29 to October 1, with
over 22,000 attendees on the final day.
 Perpetrator 
Stephen Paddock was a 64-year-old former auditor and real estate businessman,
who had been living 80 mi northeast of Las Vegas in a retirement community in Mesquite, Nevada. Paddock was twice divorced,
had a long-term girlfriend, and had no known children. His father was Benjamin Paddock,
a bank robber who was on the FBI's most-wanted list between 1969 and 1977. Paddock's only recorded interaction with law enforcement, however,
were traffic citations. Paddock was a high-stakes gambler who placed bets at a high enough level to earn valuable comps—free benefits such as rooms
and meals. He was a familiar figure to casino hosts in Las Vegas, but was not well known among other high-stakes gamblers,
because he mostly played video poker. He reportedly kept to himself and was a heavy drinker. Paddock had lost a significant amount of his wealth
over the previous two years, but had paid off all gambling debts before the shooting.
 Preparation 
Paddock may have considered attacking other events. He had researched large-scale venues in cities such as Boston since at least May 2017,
and had reserved a room overlooking the August 2017 Lollapalooza festival in Chicago, but did not use it. According to his girlfriend,
during an earlier stay at the Mandalay Bay in early September 2017, he repeatedly examined Las Vegas Village from different windows in their room.
From September 17, Paddock stayed at The Ogden in Downtown Las Vegas, which overlooked the open-air Life Is Beautiful festival that ran
from September 22 to September 24. His internet search terms from mid-September included "swat weapons", "ballistics chart 308", "SWAT Las Vegas",
and "do police use explosives". Paddock arrived at the Mandalay Bay on September 25, 2017. He was booked into Room 32135,
a complimentary room on the 32nd floor. Four days later, he checked into the neighboring suite of Room 32134, which was connected
to Room 32135 via connecting doors. Both suites overlook Las Vegas Village. Between September 25 and October 1, the day of the shooting,
he stockpiled an arsenal of weapons in his rooms including 10 AR-15 rifles with 100-round magazines having transported five suitcases
to his room on September 25, seven on the 26th, two on the 28th, on the 30th, and two on October 1. On September 30,
he had placed "Do not disturb" signs on both rooms' doors. Paddock interacted with Mandalay Bay employees more than ten times during his stay,
including twice on the day of the shooting; an MGM Resorts International spokesperson said they were all "normal in nature".
 Shooting 
 [^]  The mass shooting occurred between 10:05 and 10:15 p.m. PDT on October 1, 2017. When the shooting began,
country music singer Jason Aldean was giving the closing performance. Shortly before 10:00p.m. hotel security guard Jesus Campos was sent
to the 32nd floor to investigate an open-door alert. He attempted to open a door that immediately accessed the floor,
but found that it would not open. After Campos entered the floor, he discovered an L-shaped bracket screwed into the door and door frame,
which was responsible for barring the door from opening. After reporting the discovery to his dispatch center,
he heard a rapid drilling sound coming from Room 32135 and he went to investigate the matter. At approximately 10:05, he was hit in the right thigh
by one of about 200 bullets that Paddock fired through the door of his suite. After Campos was hit, he took cover in the alcove between Rooms 32122
and 32124 and immediately informed the hotel by radio and cellphone that he had been shot, though he believed he had been shot with a BB
or pellet gun. At the same time, maintenance worker Stephen Schuck was on the same floor to fix the barricaded door reported by Campos. Campos,
who was already injured, encountered Schuck and told him to take cover. Schuck contacted hotel dispatchers over his radio,
informed them of the ongoing shooting, and told them to call the police.
Neither Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department nor MGM Resorts International, the Mandalay Bay's owner, have confirmed
when information about the initial shooting was relayed to the police. Paddock had used a hammer to break two of the windows in both of his suites
and at 10:05p.m. began shooting through them. He ultimately fired more than 1,100 rifle rounds approximately 490 yd into the festival audience.
He initially started out with a few single gunshots before firing in prolonged bursts. Many people in the crowd initially mistook the gunfire
for fireworks. During the shooting, a security fence hindered concertgoers from fleeing the 15-acre concrete lot. The gunfire continued,
with some momentary pauses, over the span of ten minutes and ended by 10:15p.m. Paddock fired eight bullets at a large jet fuel tank
at McCarran International Airport 2000 ft away. Only two of the bullets struck its exterior, and one of them penetrated the tank,
but the fuel did not explode, because jet fuel is mostly made of kerosene and is unlikely to be ignited by a bullet. During the shooting,
police officers were initially confused whether the shots were coming from the Mandalay Bay, the nearby Luxor hotel, or the festival grounds.
There were also multiple false reports of additional shooters at other hotels on the Strip.
Officers eventually spotted multiple flashes of gunfire in the middle of the northern side of Mandalay Bay and responded to the hotel. At 10:12p.m.
two officers on the 31st floor reported the sounds of gunfire on the floor above them. When officers arrived on the 32nd floor at 10:17p.m.
and encountered Campos a minute later, he directed them to Paddock's room and helped others evacuate. Campos was then directed
to seek medical attention for himself. Between 10:26 and 10:30p.m. an additional eight officers arrived at the 32nd floor,
with some of them manually breaching through the door Paddock had screwed shut with the bracket. The gunfire had ceased,
and the police moved systematically down the hallway, searching and clearing each room, using a master key that was provided by Campos.
At 10:55p.m. the officers finished evacuating guests. At 11:20p.m. police breached Room 32135 with explosives. Paddock was found dead on the floor
from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Police then breached Room 32134; while entering the hotel suite,
an officer accidentally fired a three-round burst from his weapon, but the bullets did not hit anyone. At 11:27p.m. officers announced
over the police radio that one suspect was down. Early on October 2, Sheriff Lombardo identified the suspect as.
 Casualties 
A total of 58 people lost their lives as a result of the shooting. The fatalities included 36 women and 22 men. The oldest was 67,
the youngest 20. Six were from Nevada, 35 from California, 13 from other states, and four from Canada.
The Clark County Coroner's Office determined that all 58 victims died as a result of gunshot wounds. 31 of the victims were pronounced dead
at the scene, while the rest were pronounced dead at hospitals. An additional 851 people were injured, 422 of them with gunshot wounds.
In the aftermath, many victims were transported to area hospitals, which included University Medical Center of Southern Nevada,
Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center, and at least one of the six hospitals of Valley Health System.
Sunrise Hospital treated the largest portion of the wounded: 199 patients, 150 of whom arrived within a timespan of about 40 minutes.
For reasons that are unclear, most patients were transported to Sunrise, a Level II trauma center. University Medical Center,
a nearby Level I trauma center, treated 104 patients. 8 victims sought medical treatment in Southern California; St.
Joseph Hospital of Orange treated two, UC Irvine Medical Center treated four and Loma Linda University Medical Center treated two.
The incident is the deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in the United States, surpassing
by 9 the death toll of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, where 49 people were shot and killed.
 Immediate responses 
Much of Las Vegas Boulevard was closed while police SWAT teams combed the venue and neighboring businesses. McCarran International Airport,
adjacent to the shooting site, was shut down for several hours. Approximately 300 people entered the airport property as they fled to safety
from the shooting. This prompted officials to shut down all four runways. More than 25 flights were rerouted to ensure that no aircraft would be hit
by gunfire, while other flights were canceled before airfield operations resumed at 12:40a.m. on October 2. At approximately 2:45p.m.
PDT on October 2, a state of emergency was declared in Clark County. On the morning after the shooting, lines
to donate blood in Las Vegas stretched for blocks. Wait times were as much as six hours or more. Millions of dollars have also been raised
to help victims and their families.
 Hoaxes 
In the hours and days after the shooting, false information and fake news about the shooter's identity and motive went viral on social media: Google
and Facebook were criticized for displaying such false news stories in some of their search results. The two technology companies were said
to have failed in their responsibility of keeping false stories from reaching the public. Facebook later said its algorithms were designed to detect
and remove false stories, but failed to work adequately in this instance. In the aftermath of the shooting,
some media outlets reported that YouTube search results for information about the shooting returned links to conspiracy videos.
YouTube stated that it had tweaked its search algorithm to promote news sources which it considered more authoritative.
 Political reactions 
 [^]  Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval called the shooting "a tragic and heinous act of violence that has shaken the Nevada family". Jason Aldean,
who was singing when the shooting started, posted his condolences on Instagram and noted all of those working with him
at the show had survived the attack. At a press conference, President Donald Trump described Paddock as "a very very sick individual", and
"a demented man, [with] a lot of problems". He added, "the police department has done such an incredible job,
and we'll be talking about gun laws as time goes by". A White House official talking points memo, distributed to Trump allies,
opposed tightening gun control since "new laws won't stop a mad man", but "will curtail the freedoms of law abiding citizens". On October 2,
Trump issued a proclamation to honor the victims and their families. On October 4, Trump visited the shooting victims and first responders.
On October 7, Vice President Mike Pence participated in a unity prayer walk and ceremony in Las Vegas in honor of the dead.
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