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On September 30, he placed 'do not disturb' signs on the doors of both rooms. With help from hotel bellmen, he brought five suitcases to his room on September 25, seven on the 26th, two on the 28th, six on the 30th, and two on October 1. Cell phone records show that he also made multiple visits to his home in Mesquite. He interacted with employees more than ten times, including twice on the day of the shooting an MGM Resorts International spokesperson said all the interactions were 'normal in nature'. ĭuring his stay at Mandalay Bay, Paddock spent much of his time gambling, usually at night. Both suites overlook the site of the concert at Las Vegas Village.

Four days later, he also checked into the directly connected Room 32–134. Paddock arrived at Mandalay Bay on September 25, 2017, and booked into Room 32–135, a complimentary room on the 32nd floor. Paddock's Internet search terms from mid-September included 'swat weapons', 'ballistics chart 308', 'SWAT Las Vegas', and 'do police use explosives'.

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 24. 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. Paddock also may have considered attacking previous events.

Aftermath 2017 windows#

PreparationĪccording to his girlfriend, Paddock repeatedly cased Las Vegas Village from different windows in their room when they stayed at the Mandalay Bay a month before the shooting. Paddock had lost a significant amount of his wealth over the previous two years, but had paid off all gambling debts before the shooting. He reportedly kept to himself and was a heavy drinker. 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 single-player video poker. 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. Paddock's only recorded interactions with law enforcement were traffic citations. He was a son of Benjamin Paddock, a bank robber who was on the FBI's most-wanted list between 19. He was twice divorced, had a long-term girlfriend, and had no known children. Stephen Paddock was a 64-year-old former auditor and real estate businessman who had been living 80 miles (130 km) northeast of Las Vegas in a retirement community in Mesquite, Nevada. The 2017 festival ran from September 29 to October 1, with over 22,000 attendees on the final day. From 2014 onward, the venue hosted the annual Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Las Vegas Village, a 15-acre (6-hectare) lot used for outdoor performances, was located diagonally across the intersection to the northeast. 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. The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard immediately south of the city of Las Vegas in Clark County, Nevada. Justice Department in December 2018, but the constitutionality of the ban remained under review until 2022, when the U.S. It focused attention on firearms laws in the U.S., particularly with regard to bump stocks, which Paddock used to fire shots in rapid succession, at a rate similar to that of automatic firearms. The incident is the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in American history. The motive for the shooting is officially undetermined. About an hour later, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The ensuing panic brought the total number of injured to approximately 867.

He fired more than 1,000 bullets, killing 60 people and wounding at least 413. On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada from his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay hotel. Mass shooting, murder–suicide, mass murderĦ1 (including two victims who died in 20, and the perpetrator)