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| Las Vegas shooting: Gunman behind worst shooting in US history killed himself as police burst into room | |
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| The suspected gunman in a Las Vegas shooting that saw more than 50 people killed is thought to have killed himself before police Swat team officers breached the room he was in. | |
| Some 22,000 people were in the crowd when the man - identified as Stephen Paddock - opened fire, sending panicked people fleeing the scene, in some cases trampling one another, as law enforcement officers scrambled to locate and kill the gunman. Shocked concertgoers, some with blood on their clothes, wandered the streets after the attack. | |
| Paddock opened fire from his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel on Sunday evening at approximately 10:08pm The victims were across the street attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival concert when bullets rang out. LVMPD SWAT responded to the call, breached the hotel room and found the suspect dead, police said in a statement. | |
| At least 406 people were taken to area hospitals with injuries, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said. | |
| Paddock was not believed to be connected to any militant group, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters. | |
| “We have no idea what his belief system was,” Mr Lombardo said. “We've located numerous firearms within the room that he occupied.” | |
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