2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting
| 2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting | |
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 Las Vegas Village
Mandalay Bay
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| Location | Las Vegas Strip, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 36°5′42″N 115°10′18″W / 36.09500°N 115.17167°WCoordinates: 36°5′42″N 115°10′18″W / 36.09500°N 115.17167°W |
| Date | October 1, 2017 about 10:08–11:58 p.m. (PDT; UTC−07:00) |
| Target | Route 91 Harvest music festival attendees |
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Attack type
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Mass shooting, murder–suicide |
| Weapons |
Daniel Defense DDM4 FN 15 semi-automatic rifle |
| Deaths | 59 (including perpetrator) |
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Non-fatal injuries
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530 |
| Perpetrator | Stephen Paddock |
| Motive | Unknown |
On the evening of October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. During the closing performance by singer Jason Aldean at the strip, a gunman opened fire on the outdoor festival crowd from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
The shooter, whose motive remains unknown, was 64-year-old Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nevada. After firing into the crowd for almost 11 minutes and following a standoff with police, he was found dead in his hotel room with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. With 59 deaths (including the perpetrator) and 530 injuries, the massacre is the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history.
The Route 91 Harvest country music festival has been held annually since 2014 at Las Vegas Village, a 15-acre (6.1-hectare) lot used for outdoor performances. The venue is 450 meters (490 yards) from the Mandalay Bay hotel in Paradise, Nevada, on the opposite side of Las Vegas Boulevard. On October 1, 2017, singer Jason Aldean was giving the closing performance of the third and final day of the festival which was attended by about 22,000 people.
During Aldean's performance, Paddock fired hundreds of rifle rounds into the festival audience from two windows that he had broken with a hammer in his hotel suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. The attack began at about 10:08 p.m. PDT. Many people in the crowd initially mistook the gunfire for fireworks. The gunfire continued intermittently over the course of ten minutes.
By around 10:25 p.m., a group of law enforcement officers had reached the floor of the shooter and locked it down. When they announced themselves outside of his suite, Paddock fired through the door, wounding a hotel security guard. At around 11:21 p.m., police breached the room with explosives. The perpetrator was found dead, having shot himself in the head before the police entered. At 11:58 p.m. the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reported that one suspect was down.
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