Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani said Thursday she would seek a security review of the jet fuel tanks targeted Sunday by Las Vegas Strip mass murderer Stephen Paddock.
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Las Vegas Strip mass murderer Stephen Paddock used his Mandalay Bay hotel room to spray massive aviation fuel tanks with bullets Sunday night, a knowledgeable source told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The Mandalay Bay security officer that Stephen Paddock shot has been identified as Jesus Campos by the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America.
Stephen Paddock, the gunman who rained bullets on the Route 91 Harvest festival on Sunday night, spent decades stockpiling weapons and ammunition, and he “meticulously” planned the night he sprayed gunfire from his room at the Mandalay Bay on a crowd of concertgoers on the Strip, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Wednesday.
About 10 p.m. Sunday, Raymond Page heard the first gunshots. The Henderson man grabbed his phone, turned it on and started recording.
In her first public statement Wednesday, the girlfriend of Stephen Paddock said she thought he was breaking up with her, not planning a massacre.
At a Tuesday evening news conference, Undersheriff Kevin McMahill showed a few minutes of footage compiled from a few of the 67 body cameras worn by Metro officers on Sunday night.
Las Vegas Boulevard reopened in front of Mandalay Bay Tuesday evening for the first time since Sunday’s deadly shooting at the Route 91 music festival.
A video on Facebook shows the same suite where gunman Stephen Paddock shot at a crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival on Sunday on the Las Vegas Strip.
This timeline has been updated with information provided by the Metropolitan Police Department during a 5 p.m. briefing on Wednesday.
Laughter and excited conversation usually echo across the cavernous baggage claim area at McCarran International Airport, but the baggage claim was unusually quiet Monday.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval on Monday signed a Declaration of Emergency for Clark County following the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
“From our patients’ wounds you could tell a high-powered weapon had been used,” said one trauma surgeon who spent five straight hours in surgery after Sunday night’s mass shooting.
The Clark County coroner’s office has opened a 24-hour center at the Las Vegas Convention Center to assist with information and identification of victims of the Sunday night shooting that killed 59 people and wounded more than 500.
Las Vegas Boulevard was closed between Tropicana Avenue and Sunset Road on Monday morning, and it was unclear when it would reopen to traffic as Las Vegas police investigated Sunday’s deadly mass shooting near Mandalay Bay.
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