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High-Rise Gunman Kills 59 at Las Vegas Festival

People walk near the Las Vegas Strip shortly after sunrise Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, in Las Vegas. A deadly shooting occurred Sunday at a music festival on the Las Vegas
Strip. (AP Photo/Ronda Churchill)
By S. HO, R. CANO ers: “Get down! Get down! gates and climbing over countant from Mesquite, Two were modified to make
Associated Press Stay down!” fences as 40- to 50-round Nevada, killed himself be- them fully automatic, ac-
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Then the bam-bam-bam bursts of what was believed fore officers stormed Room cording to two U.S. officials
rapid-fire popping sound- sounds resumed. And pure to be automatic weapons 135 in the gold-colored briefed by law enforce-
ed like firecrackers at first, terror set in. “People start fire rained down on them glass skyscraper. He had ment who spoke on condi-
and many in the crowd of screaming and yelling and from the 32nd floor of the been staying there since tion of anonymity because
22,000 country music fans we start running,” said An- Mandalay Bay casino ho- Thursday and had busted the investigation is still un-
didn’t understand what drew Akiyoshi, who provid- tel. By Monday afternoon, out windows to create his folding.
was happening when the ed the cellphone video to 59 victims were dead and sniper’s perch, roughly 500 At Paddock’s home, au-
band stopped playing and The Associated Press. “You 527 wounded in the dead- yards from the concert thorities found 18 more
singer Jason Aldean bolted could feel the panic. You liest mass shooting in mod- grounds. The motive for the guns, explosives and thou-
off the stage. could feel like the bullets ern U.S. history. “You just attack remained a mystery, sands of rounds of ammuni-
“That’s gunshots,” a man were flying above us. didn’t know what to do,” with Sheriff Joseph Lombar- tion. Also, several pounds
could be heard saying Everybody’s ducking down, Akiyoshi said. “Your heart is do saying: “I can’t get into of ammonium nitrate, a
emphatically on a cell- running low to the ground.” racing and you’re thinking, the mind of a psychopath fertilizer that has been used
phone video in the nearly While some concertgo- ‘I’m going to die.’” at this point.” Paddock had to make explosives, were in
half-minute of silence and ers hit the ground, others The gunman, identified as 16 guns in his hotel room, his car, the sheriff said.
confusion that followed. A pushed for the crowded ex- Stephen Craig Paddock, including rifles with scopes,
woman pleaded with oth- its, shoving through narrow a 64-year-old retired ac- Lombardo said. Continued on Page 3

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