The Washington Times offers a
piece on the tragic shooting in Las Vegas.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A gunman
perched high on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas Strip casino unleashed a shower
of bullets down on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 50
people and wounding 406 as tens of thousands of frantic concert-goers screamed
and ran for their lives, officials said Monday. It was the worst mass shooting
in modern U.S. history.
Country music star Jason
Aldean was performing Sunday night at the end of the three-day Route 91 Harvest
Festival when the gunman opened fire across the street from inside the Mandalay
Bay Hotel and Casino. SWAT teams quickly descended on the concert and the
casino, and officers used explosives to get into the hotel room where the
suspect was inside, authorities said.
The gunman died at the scene,
reportedly by his own hands, and was identified by Clark County Sheriff Joseph
Lombardo as Stephen Paddock. A motive as not immediately known.
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