Afrasianet - At least 59 people were killed, and 516 were injured in a mass shooting during an open-air music festival in Las Vegas, near the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Sunday night.
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• 03 October 2017
03:26 GMT
Religious leaders, mourners and elected officials gathered at multiple prayer vigils around Las Vegas Monday night, AP reported.
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman spoke at the vigil outside City Hall. Several miles away, mourners and casino workers converged at a cathedral off Las Vegas Strip to honor the victims as well as the first responders to Sunday night’s shooting.
• 03:02 GMT
Police officers found 23 firearms in the Mandalay Bay hotel room Paddock occupied, Assistant Clark County Sheriff Todd Fasulo said.
Also, investigators now say that 19 firearms have been found at the man’s Mesquite, Nevada home.
Among the guns found in Paddock's room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, were high-powered rifles, considered to be capable of penetrating police armor, ABC News reported.
A modified bump stock rifle was also found. The bump stock allows a gun to simulate automatic gunfire.
Law enforcement is still in the process of examining the guns to determine if they were able to fire automatically. Authorities also searched a separate location and found an explosive used in target practice, called tannerite, according to unnamed sources.
• 02:49 GMT
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department issued a second press release Monday in which they're asking those who have pictures and videos to come forward and contact the FBI, adding that they’re still investigating the shooter’s motives.
• 01:35 GMT
New Frontier Armory in North Las Vegas, and Guns and Guitars, in Mesquite, Nevada – have confirmed they sold firearms to suspected Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock during the last year, ABC News reported.
The shops stated that he passed all of the required background checks. Sixteen guns were also found in Paddock's hotel room Monday. It's not yet been determined if the guns Paddock bought at the shops were used in the massacre.
• 00:18 GMT
Police are gathered outside the suspected shooter's home in an upscale neighborhood in Reno, Nevada, AP reported at 4:50pm PT.
A dozen officers armed with rifles closed off a two block stretch around the house.
Three SWAT team trucks and a bomb squad unit are also on the scene.
• 02 October 2017
23:27 GMT
Police found ammonium nitrate, a bomb making ingredient, in suspected Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock's car, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters Monday.
Ammonium nitrate is a high-nitrogen fertilizer and often used to make homemade bombs, such as those used in Oklahoma in 1995.
• 22:46 GMT
An emergency has been declared in Clark County, Nevada, following the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
• 22:42 GMT
At least 59 people have died and 527 injured in the shooting, Clark County, Nevada Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said at a news conference Monday.
He added there were 18 firearms, some explosives, and several thousand rounds of ammunition found in Paddock’s home.
• 21:53 GMT
Eric Paddock, the brother of suspected shooter, Stephen Paddock, seemed baffled about the situation while talking to reporters at his Orlando, Florida home Monday.
“He was a wealthy guy and he liked to play video poker and he liked to go on cruises,” he said, Reuters reported.
Paddock described his brother as a peaceful man.
“He’s never drawn his gun, it makes no sense,” he said.
He also said his brother moved back to the red desert hills of Nevada, in part, because gambling is legal in the state.
• 21:17 GMT
A Las Vegas condominium just blocks away from the Mandalay Bay hotel has taken additional security precautions while authorities continue their investigation.
“We will have security officers posted at the front lobby doors and garage entrances,” the property manager told residents, according to an email forwarded to RT.
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