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Schematic of the shooting scene. Paddock indiscriminately fired rifle rounds from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel toward the concertgoers at Las Vegas Village. The mass shooting occurred between 10:05 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. on October 1, 2017, which was the third and final night of the festival.
On October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire from his 32nd-floor hotel room at the Mandalay Bay during the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, killing 60 and injuring hundreds more. Paddock was discovered dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound , and his motive is unknown.
Stephen Craig Paddock [5] (April 9, 1953 – October 1, 2017) [6] was an American mass murderer who perpetrated the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.Paddock opened fire into a crowd of about 22,000 concertgoers attending a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip, killing 60 people [a] and injuring approximately 867 (at least 413 of whom were wounded by gunfire).
Mandalay Bay remained open following the shooting. [ 57 ] [ 58 ] Hospitality experts believed the massacre would have only a minimal impact on the resort's revenue. [ 59 ] Several hundred workers, out of 7,400, were laid off as a result of decreased visitation due to the shooting.
2017 Las Vegas shooting: A gunman opened fire on a country music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, killing 60 and wounding several hundred. The shooting is the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in American history. [90] [91] November 5, 2017 Sutherland Springs, Texas, United States: 27 [note 2] 22 49
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The Frank and Estella Beam Hall is one of UNLV's instructional buildings and the primary building for the Lee Business School. [2] The shooting occurred about three miles (5 km) from the Mandalay Bay casino, which six years earlier was the site of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
Route 91 Harvest was a country music festival in the United States that was held annually in Paradise, Nevada, from 2014 to 2017 in the Las Vegas Village, a 15-acre (6.1 ha) lot on Las Vegas Boulevard (former U.S. Route 91), directly across from the Luxor Las Vegas hotel and casino and diagonally across from the Mandalay Bay resort and casino. [2]