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More than 50 people killed and 500 wounded when
shots rang out shortly after 10 P.M. in Las Vegas, Nevada into a crowd of concert goers across the street from the Mandalay Bay hotel.
The group at first thought the shots sounded like firecrackers or fireworks. The Route 91 Harvest Festival attracted 22,000 people.
As people began to fall from the assassin’s bullets, the horror of was happening started to dawn.
The shooter identified as Stephen Paddock was staying at the Mandalay Bay hotel. His room on the 32nd floor gave him an expensive view of the concert venue below. The killer used an AR-15 type rifle with a bump or slide fire modification.