Absolutely incredible. It went to 20 dead, 100 wounded and then next I checked, it was 50+ dead (even the 50 dead is apparently low) and an unbelievable 406 wounded. At least two off-duty police officers were killed and another was critically wounded.
The gunman was a 64 year old man, probably a White man, but that’s not certain. He resided in Mesquite, Nevada with his retired Vegas hostess girlfriend, an Asian who appears to be a Filipina. He was firing from the 34th floor of a hotel, so there was almost no way to stop him. He had at least 10 guns, including automatic or semiautomatic weapons, and he fired away for quite some time. When police arrived on the scene, he was still shooting. There is video out of there of the concert when the shooting started.
It’s apparently not terrorism. Best I can tell is that a woman went down to the front of the concert at some point and and some time after that, got into some sort of a confrontation with another woman. It escalated into screaming and shouting, and the woman who had appeared on the scene yelled, “You’re all going to die!” before she left the concert area. 40 minutes later, the shooting erupted.
A logical theory here is that the woman who got into the confrontation and told concertgoers that they were all going to die was the girlfriend of the shooter. It looks like she made her way back up to the 34th floor. She was up there with him because they found her debit card in the room after the police entered and shot the gunman dead. Appaerently she was already gone by that time. LE put out and APB for two vehicles, saying that the woman may be driving one of those vehicles.
The woman probably told the man about the fight she had with the woman at the concert below and how she had told the crowd that they were all going to die. Apparently in order to get revenge for the woman who fought with his girlfriend, the man fired on the crowd.
That’s the best hypothesis I can come up with at the moment.
Americans are truly insane about these damned guns.
