Las Vegas, Nevada Shooting Massacre Death Toll Rises To 59 People and 530 People Injured, Shooter is Dead

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017

The Las Vegas, Nevada Metropolitan Police Department reports the death toll from the lone wolf gunman shooting masacre on Sunday, October 1, 2017, at the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival Concert has risen to 59 people, including the gunman, and another 530 people injured. 

The shooter has been indentified as Stephen Paddock, a 64 year old resident of Mesquite, Nevada, who shot himself in his hotel room on the 32nd Floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino before Police entered his room.  Police had to use explosives to open the locked room door of Stephen Paddock.  Police report Paddock used a sub-machine guns with automatic shooting capabilities and had 23  weapons confiscated in his hotel room.  The motive for this shooting is unknown and being investigated by police and federal agencies such as the FBI and ATF.

Police are searching for Paddock’s female companion, Marilou Danley, age 62, for questioning.  Family members of Stephen Paddock are being questioned to determine the motivation for the deadliest mass shooting in the United States.

Among the 59 dead people include an off-duty Las Vegas, Nevada police officer who was attending the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival concert. 

The shooter’s elevated position from the 32nd floor of his hotel room at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and the use of automatic sub-machine guns caused the high number of casualties and injured people.

The FBI and ATF have now joined the Las Vegas, Nevada Metropolitan Police Department and Clark County Sheriff’s Department in investigating what is now the deadliest mass shooting in the United States.