2017 Las Vegas shooting
mass shooting in the Las Vegas area of Nevada, USA on October 1, 2017 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the night of October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock fired hundreds of bullets from his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States at a group of concert-goers across the road at the Route 91 Harvest music festival with and AR-15. From his 32nd floor balcony, Paddock fired over 1000 bullets into the festival. He killed 60 people and wounded 411 before committing suicide. The panic meant that the total injured increased to 867.[2][3] It is the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the United States.[4]
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Location | Paradise, Nevada, U.S. | ||||||||
Coordinates | 36°5′42″N 115°10′18″W | ||||||||
Date | October 1, 2017 (2017-10-01) c. 10:05 – 10:15 p.m. (PDT; UTC−07:00) | ||||||||
Target | Audience of the Route 91 Harvest music festival | ||||||||
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder, murder–suicide | ||||||||
Weapons | 24 firearms, including:[1]
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Deaths | 61 (including the perpetrator) | ||||||||
Injured | 867 (411 by gunfire) | ||||||||
Perpetrator | Stephen Paddock | ||||||||
Motive | Unknown |
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