Who was Las Vegas Route 91 shooting gunman Stephen Paddock and what was his motive?
manchestereveningnews.co.ukMass murdered Stephen Paddock committed the most deadly mass shooting by a lone individual in US history when he opened fire at at concertgoers in Las Vegas.
Paddock shot dead 58 people and injured 867 others when he shot at a crowd of more than 20,000 people on the Las Vegas Strip from his hotel window on October 1, 2017.
Three more people have died as a result of the shooting in the years that followed. The 64-year-old had booked out two connected rooms on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel - both of which overlooked the festival site which was 450m away. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community He opened fire at 10.05pm with the rampage lasting around 10 minutes.
In this time Paddock fired more than 1,000 rounds from two windows. He then killed himself and his body was found by SWAT officers in his room an hour later.
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