Las Vegas Shooting

On the evening of the first of October, a man named Stephen Paddock stood waiting in his two room suite of the Mandalay Hotel in Las Vegas, looking over the concert venue of the “Route 91 Harvest ”, an annual Las Vegas musical Festival . He looked down on the thousands of people as tiny little ants from a distance. And soon, he would take his military grade weapons and shoot at the people indiscriminately. But before this, he could hear the soft soothing country music, a symbol of the peaceful warm night in Las Vegas.

While Paddock was readying his machine gun, the concert was packed with people, ranging from teenagers to parents, teachers, and nurses. The people below laughed and sang. As the concert goers sang along to the music of the famous country singer, Jason Aldean, Paddock pointed his machine gun at the people from his perch. For six minutes straight, he shot at the concert goers below. Some hid and others frantically ran for an exit away from the concert venue.

Police officers scrambled through the area, helping people out of the venue, but that didn't stop the shooter whose motive is still unknown. One firefighter at the scene told CNN about what he saw, “It was an eerie sight, strewn with bullet-picked bodies, abandoned bottles, camping chairs, sunglasses, and cell-phones, he explained. The cell-phones kept ringing and ringing.” But, as the shooting continues, you hear “boom, boom, boom, boom”.

The guns made sounds like popping popcorn, hitting more than 500 people and killing 58. Police officers rushed their way through injured crowds into the Mandalay Hotel, risking their lives and getting shot. When they reached Paddock’s lavish suite, they found the gunman surrounded by all his guns, dead on the floor, taking with him the secret of why he did what he did, not only to Las Vegas, but to the entire world.

Source:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/us/las-vegas-attack-visual-tic-toc-trnd/index.html