THROWBACK PIC OF THE WEEK
MOTIVE FOR HORROR STILL UNKNOWN
TODAY marks the fifth anniversary of the deadliest mass shooting in US history — when gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire from his Las Vegas hotel room, killing 60 people.
Paddock (64) unleashed a barrage of more than 1,000 bulllets on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada.
He cut down 60 people and left more than 400 wounded as he fired indiscriminately from his 32nd-floor suite in the Mandalay Bay hotel.
The ensuing panic brought the total number of injured to nearly 900.
About an hour later, Paddock was found dead in his room from a selfinflicted gunshot wound.
ON THIS day in
●
1975, legendary boxer Muhammad Ali stepped into the ring opposite Joe Frazier lll.
Their fight was
● billed as the “Thrilla in Manila” and was the third and final
The motive for the mass shooting remains unknown to this day.
The incident is the deadliest committed by a single person in U.S history and focused public attention on firearms laws, particularly with regard to bump stocks.
Paddock had used these to fire shots in rapid succession, at a rate similar to that of automatic firearms.
Review
Bump stocks were banned by the US Justice Department in December 2018, but the constitutionality of the ban remains under review.
A lawsuit was filed on behalf of 450 of the victims, which claimed the Mandalay Bay Hotel had shown negligence by allowing Paddock to bring in a large amount of weaponry.
MGM Resorts reached a settlement of $800 million in 2019. boxing match between WBA, WBC, and The Ring heavyweight champion Ali and Frazier, for the heavyweight championship of the world.
Ali won by technical ● knockout.