Year: 2017

@EirikurH/Twitter (LAS VEGAS) -- For Jaelyn Duran, the Route 91 Harvest Festival was a last-minute excursion. The three-day country music festival had been sold out for weeks, but she, her sister, Sarah Duran, and her sister's boyfriend, Billy, managed to secure 11th-hour tickets to the event that attracted more than 22,000 fans to the famous Las Vegas Strip."It was a really, really good day," Jaelyn Duran, 18, told ABC News, […]

ABC News(LAS VEGAS) -- Multiple loaded high-capacity magazines were found in the suspected Las Vegas shooter's hotel room, according to multiple law enforcement sources.Police found the guns and ammunition in the room being used by suspected shooter Stephen Paddock at Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. Among the guns were high-powered rifles considered capable of penetrating police armor. There were also some handguns in the room. According to Clark County Sheriff […]

iStock/Thinkstock(LAS VEGAS) -- Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old resident of Mesquite, Nev., is the man suspected of killing at least 58 people and injuring at least 515 in Las Vegas on Sunday night in what is now believed to be the worst mass shooting in modern US history, but his motive remains a mystery.The shooter opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino at a large […]

ABC News(LAS VEGAS) -- Six of the victims who died in a mass shooting in Las Vegas Sunday night have been identified.Among the at least 58 who were killed in the attack include a registered nurse from Tennessee, a school worker in New Mexico and four victims from California: a school worker, a special education teacher, a police records technician and a woman who graduated high school in 2015.Riverside Polytechnic […]

ABC News(LAS VEGAS) -- Two off-duty sheriff's deputies from California who were at a country music festival in Las Vegas when shots rang out ran into the line of fire to help save people, the president of the officers' union said."They went back out where the gunfire was," after taking the wife of one of the officers and the girlfriend of the other to safety in the stage area, Tom […]

David Becker/Getty Images(LAS VEGAS) -- Photos taken by people at the scene of the mass shooting at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip, together with previously taken photos of the area, show how close the site was to the hotel where the gunman opened fire. On Sunday night, a man sprayed hundreds of bullets at concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival from a 32nd-floor window at the […]

ABCNews.com(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- The brother of the suspected Las Vegas shooter said he and his family feel as if an "asteroid just fell on us.""We have no idea how or why this happened," Eric Paddock, the brother of suspect Stephen Paddock, told ABC News.Stephen Paddock killed himself before authorities entered the hotel room from which he is believed to have fired shots that killed at least 58 people and injured […]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The man suspected of opening fire on thousands of concertgoers in Las Vegas, killing more than 50 and injuring hundreds, had at least 10 guns in the hotel room from which he carried out the shooting.Investigators are working to determine what type of weapons were used by the suspect, Stephen Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada, who police say killed himself by the time officers arrived at his room.The […]

iStock/Thinkstock(LAS VEGAS) -- The brother of the suspected Las Vegas shooter said he and his family feel like an "asteroid just fell on us.""We have no idea how or why this happened," Eric Paddock, the brother of suspect Stephen Paddock, told ABC News.Stephen Paddock killed himself before authorities entered the hotel room from which he is believed to have fired shots that killed at least 50 people and injured more […]