Late-night comics decried the Las Vegas mass shooting as a confounding and repetitive American tragedy, with Jimmy Kimmel and Trevor Noah lashing out at politicians who oppose gun control. Read more
The gunman who unleashed hundreds of rounds of gunfire on a crowd of concertgoers in Las Vegas attached what is called a “bump-stock” to two of his weapons, in effect converting semi-automatic firearms into fully automatic ones. Read more
Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas shooter, had an arsenal of 17 weapons in his hotel room, mostly military-style rifles, according to a law enforcement source. Read more
False news that erroneously named a suspect in the deadly Las Vegas mass shooting on Sunday spread on Google and Facebook before the services removed the posts in question, the two companies acknowledged today. Read more
The man suspected of the deadliest shooting spree in U.S. history was described as a high roller, but authorities could not immediately determine if his gambling luck had gone way south. Read more
As a staging area for a massacre, a high-rise Las Vegas hotel provided a perfect vantage point. Read more
University Medical Center is the only level-one trauma center in Nevada, which means it is fully staffed with surgeons and trauma nurses day and night to handle injuries and mass casualties. But even with 11 trauma bays, three operating rooms, a CT scanner, a trauma intensive care unit and a pediatric intensive care unit all under one roof, it had never faced a torrent like the one on Oct. 1. Read more
The deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas renewed Democrats’ calls Monday for Congress to act on gun safety legislation, but their pleas fell on deaf ears in the GOP-controlled Congress. Read more
Hawaii’s Congressional representatives reacted to the mass shooting in Las Vegas which killed at least 50 and injured more than 500 with expressions of condolences this morning. Read more
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Tara Spangler, originally from Paia, Maui, was dealing cards at Hooters Casino Hotel in Las Vegas Sunday night when dozens of frantic people ran into the casino. Read more
CBS has fired a corporate lawyer who said on social media about the Las Vegas mass shooting that she wasn’t sympathetic because “country music fans often are Republican gun-toters.” Read more
Stephen Paddock lived in a tidy Nevada retirement community where the amenities include golf, tennis and bocce. He owned rental properties, held a private pilot’s license and liked to travel to Las Vegas to play high-stakes video poker. Read more
Country stars and celebrities took to social media to express their sadness after the mass shooting in Las Vegas at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Read more
Without providing any evidence to support the claim, the Islamic State group today said the gunman in the mass shooting in Las Vegas was “a soldier” from its ranks who had converted to Islam months ago. Read more
The rapid-fire popping sounded like firecrackers at first, and many in the crowd of 22,000 country music fans didn’t understand what was happening when the band stopped playing and singer Jason Aldean bolted off the stage. Read more
