How the Vegas psycho ended it
Las Vegas madman Stephen Paddock (above) blew himself away with a gunshot to the mouth after he slaughtered 58 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, according to a coroner’s report.
Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg also determined that none of the victims killed at an outdoor concert Oct. 1 was trampled to death while trying to escape the festival grounds.
Some survivors have described receiving injuries other than gunfire during their escapes. Most of those killed died from a single gunshot wound, according to the coroner’s office. Four victims sustained multiple gunshot wounds.
Twenty-one people were shot in the head, 36 died with chest and back wounds and one — Rocio Guillen of Corona, Calif. — died of a gunshot to the leg, according to a chart the coroner released. Guillen, 40, a mother of four, made it to a hospital with her fiancé, Chris Jaksha, just before she died, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Jennifer Parks, 36, a kindergarten teacher from Palmdale, Calif., died from multiple gunshot wounds to the head.
The off-duty police officer killed at the festival, Charleston Hartfield, 34, died from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Officials have said more than 500 people were injured when Paddock, 64, a high-stakes video-poker gambler, sprayed gunfire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel into a crowd of 22,000 people at the Route 91 Harvest festival below.