Alwaght- Death toll from a mass shooting in the United States has reached 58 after a gunman opened fire on concertgoers at a music concert in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Some 518 were also injured in the shooting while initial reports have put the toll at about 20 dead and 100 injured.
The gunman firing from a the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino rained a rapid-fire barrage on a huge outdoor concert festival on Sunday at around 10 p.m. local time, sending more than 22,000 country music fans fleeing until SWAT units found him dead on the hotel’s 32nd floor.
Police identified the gunman as area resident Stephen Paddock, 64, and said they had no information yet about his motive. According to police, Stephen Paddock killed himself in a Las Vegas hotel room.
ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for the massacre, but American officials expressed skepticism of that claim.
He was not believed to be connected to any militant group, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters.
“We have no idea what his belief system was,” Lombardo said. “We’ve located numerous firearms within the room that he occupied.”
Washington Post cited Sheriff Joseph Lombardo as saying police believe the suspect was a “lone wolf” attacker.
Authorities believed they had located Paddock’s roommate, who they identified as Marilou Danley. He gave no details of whether she was suspected of involvement in the attack but described her as an “associate.”
Marilou Danley
Police had located two cars that belonged to the suspect, a Hundai Tuscon and a Chrysler Pacifica Touring, both with Nevada plates.
The preliminary death toll, which officials said could rise, would make the attack the deadliest mass shooting in US history, eclipsing last year’s massacre of 49 people at an Orlando night club.
