| 2017 Las Vegas shooting | |||||||||
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| Location | Paradise, Nevada, U.S. | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°5′42″N 115°10′18″W / 36.09500°N 115.17167°W | ||||||||
| Date | October 1, 2017 c. 10:05 – 10:15 p.m. (PDT; UTC−07:00) | ||||||||
| Target | Audience of the Route 91 Harvest music festival | ||||||||
Attack type | Mass shooting, murder–suicide, mass murder | ||||||||
| Weapons | 24 firearms:
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| Deaths | 61 (including the perpetrator) | ||||||||
| Injured | ≈ 867 (413+ by gunfire or shrapnel) | ||||||||
| Perpetrator | Stephen Craig Paddock | ||||||||
| Motive | Unknown | ||||||||
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On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada from his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay hotel. He fired more than 1,000 rounds, killing 60 people[a] and wounding at least 413. The ensuing panic brought the total number of injured to approximately 867. About an hour later, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The motive for the shooting is officially undetermined.
The incident is the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in American history. It focused attention on firearms laws in the U.S., particularly with regard to bump stocks, which Paddock used to fire shots in rapid succession, at a rate similar to that of automatic firearms.[4] Bump stocks were banned by the U.S. Justice Department in December 2018, but the ban was overturned by the Supreme Court for lacking a legislative basis in 2024.[5]
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