- The event was the Route 91 Harvest Festival, a three-day country music event.
- The Festival was held at the Las Vegas Village and Festival Grounds, run by MGM Resorts.
- It happened at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
- The gunman fired from a Las Vegas hotel.
- Country singer Jason Aldean was performing, when the shooting started.
- Several SWAT teams were sent to the hotel immediately after the first reports of the shooting at 10:08 p.m
- Shortly before midnight the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reported that “one suspect is down,”.
- He was neutralised in a hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel.
- Numerous weapons had been found in the room.
- A search was also due to take place shortly at his home address.
- Thereafter the police said they did not believe there were any more active gunmen.
- The gunman was identified as Stephen Paddock, 64 from Nevada.
- More than 50 victims died, and at least 200 others were wounded.
- It is one of the deadliest mass shootings in United States history.
- The police were seeking “a companion” named Marilou Danley, a woman he described as Asian and 4-foot-11
