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VegasVegasWashington announced shootingshooting he would visit Las Vegas push to make it easier to obtain a gun presidency and recalls even his Secret ‘act‘act ofof purepure evil’evil’ resident Donald Trump decried the today. silencer. Service detail in tears -- called for the massacre of at least 58 Las Vegas Trump did not address an IS “The crowd fled at the sound of deadlock to be broken and for Congress Pconcert goers as an “act of pure evil” propaganda agency’s unverified claim gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the to act. Monday, but refrained from addressing that one of its “soldiers” who had shooter had a silencer,” tweeted At that time Trump tweeted: calls for gun control or an unproven “converted to Islam” months ago was Clinton, whose Democratic Party has “President Obama spoke for me and claim of responsibility from the responsible. tried in vain to introduce lasting gun every American in his remarks in Islamic State group. White House officials also refused control measures despite the national #Newtown Connecticut.” Delivering televised remarks to comment on that claim “at this scourge of mass shootings. But since then Trump -- whose from the White House, Trump point” saying the local authorities’ “Our grief isn’t enough. We can and White House bid was eagerly endorsed Stephen Paddock (File) ordered that flags be flown at investigation was “ongoing.” The FBI must put politics aside, stand up to the by the NRA -- has positioned himself as half-staff until sunset says it has so far found “no connection” NRA, and work together to try to stop a staunch defender of the constitutional Friday, offered between international terrorist groups this from happening again.” “right to keep and bear arms.” prayers for the and the Vegas attack. The issue of gun control is highly US Senator Chris Murphy, who victims and Calling for unity, Trump instead sensitive in the United States and was the congressman for Sandy Hook, tried to console the nation -- an act Trump’s own views on the issue have renewed a call for action in the wake of that has become a grim rite of passage changed markedly over his years in the Las Vegas attack. for modern US presidents as each public life. “Nowhere but America do horrific rekindles the divisive After the 2012 Sandy Hook large-scale mass shootings happen with national debate on gun control. Elementary School shooting, where 20 this degree of regularity,” he said. “In moments of tragedy and six and seven-year old children and six “This must stop. It is positively horror, America comes together adults were mowed down by a disturbed infuriating that my colleagues in as one -- and it always has,” 20-year-old, Trump appeared to favor Congress are so afraid of the gun Trump said. stricter rules. industry that they pretend there “Our unity cannot Back then, president Barack Obama aren’t public policy responses to this Las Vegas police stand guard along the streets outside the the Route be shattered by -- Atwho least often 50 people called have Sandy been Hook killed andepidemic.” more than 400 are injured after 91 Harvest country music festival grounds evil. Our bonds the worsta gunman moment opened of his fire eight on crowdsyear at a country music festival in cannot be broken by Las Vegas. The attack is the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history violence. And though Sunday, 10.08pm local we feel such great anger Las Vegas at the senseless murder of time: Automatic fire Stephen Paddock: retired accountant aimed at estimated our fellow citizens, it is our love NEVADA Las Vegas gambled in Las Vegas. He did stuff. US media he had no known religious crowd of 30,000 people tephen Craig Paddock was a retired Eat burritos.” affiliation. that defines us today -- and attending Route 91 always will, forever.” UNITED STATES accountant who lived on a desert Paddock was found dead, “Nothing. No religious Harvest Festival Sgolf course in Mesquite Nevada, with apparently of a self-inflicted gunshot affiliation, no political affiliation, 15 no known history of violence -- until wound, when a police SWAT team he just hung out,” Eric Paddock ‘Right to bear arms’ Excalibur Police have identified the he shot dead 50 people in a hail burst in to his room on the 32nd floor told CBS. heavily armed gunman Hotel of gunfire from his Las Vegas hotel of the Mandalay Hotel. The 55-year-old Paddock, who lives behind the Sunday night and Casino: Shooter window. The gunman, who photographs in Orlando Florida, told media the RECENT MASS SHOOTINGS At least 50 dead, over 400 injured massacre in Las Vegas -- the on 32nd floor, around Paddock’s family was in shock showed as greying with a trimmed family was shocked by the shooting. deadliest mass shooting in 360m from crowd Tropicana Ave. after the 64-year-old sowed terror beard and moustache, was a former “It’s like an asteroid just fell on top modern US history which left on the Vegas strip in the worst mass accountant and a licensed pilot with of our family,” he told the Las Vegas Luxor 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada: Lone gunman fires automatic weapon into more than 500 injured -- as a 64-year- MGM shooting in recent US history, which no criminal record, according to Review-Journal. the Islamic State group early Monday ABC News. At least eight weapons, “We have no idea how this crowds attending country music festival from 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay old Nevada resident named Stephen Grand hotel. Local suspect, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, found dead by police Craig Paddock. claimed was carried out by one of its including a number of long rifles, happened.” Paddock apparently killed himself Reno Ave. “soldiers.” were recovered in his hotel room. Stephen Paddock also had a hunting His brother, Eric Paddock, told IS’s propaganda outlet Amaq said license for Alaska, where hunting before a SWAT team breached his Tropicana CBS News his brother was “not an in online statements the attack was for big game like elk and bear is 2016, Orlando, Florida: Omar Mateen – linked to 49 dead, 53 injured hotel room overlooking the concert so-called Islamic State – attacks gay nightclub Pulse venue, recovering at least eight rifles. avid gun guy at all.” carried out by a “soldier” who had popular. Trump’s vanquished election McCarran “Where the hell did he get “converted to Islam several months According to publicly available 14 dead, 21 injured Delano International Airport – rival Hillary Clinton hit out at the automatic weapons? He has no ago”. information, he resided in a new golf 2015, San Bernadino, California: Shooting and attempted bombing by several flights diverted gun manufacturers lobby -- the military background or anything like Security officials earlier said course development carved into the Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik - married couple believed to have 200 metres National Rifle Association -- that,” he said. “He’s a guy who lived in Paddock appeared to have been desert just outside Mesquite, Nevada been radicalised online Four Seasons 219 yards People hug and cry outside the Thomas & Mack Center which has backed a congressional a house in Mesquite, drove down and working alone, and his brother told on the border with Arizona. 27 dead, 2 injured Source: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department © GRAPHIC NEWS 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Connecticut: 20 year-old Adam Lanza shoots and kills 20 children, six staff members, and his mother

No religion, no politics for Las Vegas shooter, says brother 12 dead, 70 injured Continued from Page 1 may have motivated the shooting. as he continued his spree. some kind of equipment malfunction. ‘Beyond horrific’ 2012, Aurora, Colorado: Heavily armed gunman James Holmes attacks he Federal Bureau of Investigation “This is an asteroid falling out of “We heard (what) sounded like a Once he realized what was going on, The Las Vegas attack is the deadliest moviegoers at midnight screening of Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises Tsaid it has found no such link the sky,” Eric Paddock told CBS News. glass breaking, so you looked around he joined the first responders, donning shooting in recent US history, 13 dead, 30 injured so far. “As this event unfolds we He said his brother had “no religious to see what’s going on and then one of their vests. exceeding the toll of 49 dead in an 2009, Fort Hood, Texas: U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan opens fire at military have determined to this point no affiliation, no political affiliation.” heard a pop, pop, pop,” Monique “Honestly I probably pronounced attack on the Pulse nightclub in base killing 13 mainly miltary personnel and wounding more than 30 others connection with an international “He was my brother. He was a guy. Dekerf told CNN. “You’d think for 15-20 people” dead, he told Fox Orlando, Florida in June 2016. 13 dead, 4 injured terrorist group,” said Aaron Rouse, He gambled,” Eric Paddock said. a moment okay we’re fine, there’s no News. “It was pretty much like a It was also the latest in a series special agent in charge of the Las He said his brother had no history more gunfire, then it starts again.” war scene inside.” Emergency crews of recent deadly attacks at concert 2009, Binghampton, New York: Former student Jiverly Antares Wong kills teacher and students at American Civic Association immigration centre Vegas office of the FBI. of mental illness and was “not an avid Country music star used anything to hand as makeshift venues. Twenty-two people were Paddock, whose photographs gun guy at all.” Paddock resided in a was on stage and near the end of his stretchers, including tables and metal killed while leaving an Ariana Grande 32 dead, 17 injured showed as greying with a trimmed new golf course development in the concert when the shooting began. railings normally used to control the concert in the northern English city 2007, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia: Student Seung-Hui Cho opens beard and moustache, was a former desert just outside Mesquite, Nevada, Aldean initially carried on playing crowds, said Hayes. of Manchester in May when a suicide fire on university campus killing 32 people before taking his own life accountant and a licensed private pilot 80 miles northeast (130 kilometers) when the first crackle of gunfire could Asked if he thought it was an bomber detonated a nail bomb in the 12 dead, 24 injured with no criminal record, according of Las Vegas. be heard but then hurried off the stage. inexperienced gunman, he responded: foyer. Ninety people were killed in 1999, Columbine High School, Colorado: Students Eric Harris and Dylan to ABC News. Eric Paddock, the Witnesses said Paddock opened Robert Hayes, a firefighter from Los “With 30,000 people in the arena area, November 2015 at the Bataclan venue Klebold conduct complex attack on school, killing 12 students and one gunman’s brother, said he was at a fire with an initial long burst of Angeles who was in front of the stage, it was kind of like shooting goldfish ... in Paris during a concert by US band teacher, and injuring 24 others complete loss to understand what gunfire, and then appeared to reload said he first thought the shots were He didn’t have to be good.” the Eagles of Death Metal. -AFP People head to buses as they leave the Thomas & Mack Center Source: Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS