2017 Las Vegas shooting

Also known as: Route 91 Harvest festival shooting, 1 October

Active: 2017–2017
Region: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
State: NV
Kind: Mass
Status: Identified, never tried
Victims: 0

On the night of October 1, 2017, a gunman firing from his suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel on the Las Vegas Strip shot into the crowd at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival across the street, killing 58 people and wounding hundreds; two more later died of their wounds. It is the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in modern U.S. history. Police who breached the suite found the shooter, Stephen Paddock, 64, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's final report in August 2018 found he acted alone but could not establish a motive. The victims are honored with a tree each at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden, and a permanent memorial is planned at the festival site.

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Timeline of locations

2017
Mesquite, Nevada (Killer's residence, approximate area)
The gunman lived in a retirement community in Mesquite, northeast of Las Vegas.
October 2017
Las Vegas Community Healing Garden (Other, approximate area)
Volunteers built the garden downtown in the days after the shooting, with a memorial tree for each victim. Names are read there every October 1.
October 1, 2017
Route 91 Harvest festival, Las Vegas Village (Crime scene)
About 22,000 people were at the outdoor country music festival when the shooting began at about 10:05 p.m. Nearly all of the dead and wounded were hit here. A permanent memorial is planned on the northeast corner of the site.
October 1, 2017
Mandalay Bay hotel, 32nd floor (Crime scene, approximate area)
The gunman fired more than 1,000 rounds from the windows of his suite. Police found him dead inside, with 24 firearms.

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