Vegas night of horror
On the evening of Sunday, October 1, around 22,000 fans gathered to enjoy the Route 91 Harvest, a three-day country music festival in Las Vegas. Just after 10pm, rapid-fire gunshots rang out and panicked concertgoers began running for their lives, jumping over barricades and climbing under cars to shelter from the bullets.
In 72 minutes, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock had killed at least 59 people and injured 527. The high-flying gambler shot into the crowd from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. When police broke down the door, they found he had taken his own life. There were 23 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition in the room. Paddock’s live-in partner, Australian Marilou Danley, from the Gold Coast, was out of the country at the time of the massacre. However, she was met by the FBI upon her return to the US. Investigations are ongoing.