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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) – An Arizona man was charged Friday with making armor-piercing ammunition without a license and selling it to the Las Vegas gunman whose October killing spree left 58 concert-goers dead. Stephen Paddock, 64, killed himself after the rampage carried out from his hotel suite on Las Vegas’ famed Strip on October 1 — the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history. Douglas Haig, 55, is charged with one count of conspiracy to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Justice Department announced Tuesday that it is reviewing the legality of “bump stocks,” two months after a man shot down 58 concert-goers from a Las Vegas hotel window using the devices. The Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — which regulates firearms but not gun accessories — will determine whether the devices, which make a semi-automatic weapon perform like an automatic weapon, are illegal. “Possessing firearm […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Lawsuits were filed Monday against the company that staged the Las Vegas country music concert at which a gunman killed 58 people and wounded nearly 500. Two hotel chains are also named in the suits, which accuse the defendants of negligence and failing to provide security in the October 1 massacre. Perched in a 32-floor room of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Stephen Paddock opened fire on the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Las Vegas mass killer Stephen Paddock was a compulsive player of video poker who took the anxiety drug Valium, CNN reported on Monday. The report gave new details about the background of the 64-year-old who, on October 1, gunned down 58 people and wounded almost 500 for reasons which investigators still have not been able to fathom. Paddock said in a 2013 court deposition that he was “the biggest video poker player in […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock had booked a hotel room in Chicago during the hugely-popular Lollapalooza music festival, it emerged Thursday, raising the prospect he had been planning a large-scale attack for months. The Blackstone hotel, with rooms facing a downtown city park where the festival was held, said a man of the same name had a reservation there in August — just as hundreds of thousands were attending the four-day outdoor concert […]
LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — A shooter opened fire on a concert in Las Vegas, killing 58 people and wounding nearly 500 in a 10-minute barrage of gunfire. Here is a timeline of the attack and the law enforcement response released by Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo: —10:05 pm: Shooter Stephen Paddock opens fire on the concert. —10:12 pm: Two officers arrive on the 31st floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel and say the […]
by Cyril Julien with Frankie Taggart in Mesquite Agence France Presse LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — The girlfriend of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock arrived back in the United States Tuesday evening and was met by FBI agents eager to hear whatever she might know about the motive behind his slaying of 58 people and wounding of more than 500 in the worst mass shooting in US history. Although the FBI wants to talk […]
by Frankie Taggart Agence France Presse MESQUITE, United States (AFP) — In America’s macabre recent history of mass shootings, it has become something of a cliche: the loner who moved silently in his community, never getting too close to neighbors or revealing his hand. Stephen Paddock, the gunman behind the deadliest such attack in modern US history who murdered 59 people in Las Vegas on Sunday, joins that chilling roll call of reclusive killers. Neighbors […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang on Tuesday expressed condolences to the families of the victims in the mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday night. Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella made the pronouncement, as he reported that there was no Filipino casualty in the incident that is now dubbed as the worst mass shooting in modern United States history. “We join the peace-loving people of the international community in denouncing this latest act of violence,” […]
LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) – Stephen Craig Paddock, the retired accountant who smuggled an arsenal into a swank Las Vegas hotel and mowed down concert-goers from a 32nd story window, was a high-stakes gambler whose bank-robber father was once on the FBI’s most wanted list. The 64-year-old had a home with his girlfriend in a tranquil golf course retirement community in Mesquite, Nevada, 80 miles (130 kilometers) northeast of the US gambling capital, and regularly sent […]
LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — More than 400 victims were taken to hospital after a mass shooting in Las Vegas which left 50 people dead, police said on Monday. Approximately 406 people were transported to area hospitals, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement which also put the toll from Sunday night’s shooting at 50. Police had previously said at least 50 people had been killed at the country music […]
By Anna Cui (EBC Las Vegas Bureau) Eagle News Service LAS VEGAS, United States (Eagle News) — The Las Vegas Metropolitan Department sheriff said that the shooting in a Las Vegas open concert on Sunday that killed 50 people and wounded more than 400 others, was not a terrorist act, but was a single act of shooting by one man in what is now the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. Sheriff Joseph […]
