In a repetition of shooting disasters gripping the United States, a single gunman vehemently sprayed bullets at a crowd of revelers at a country music festival in Las Vegas. The Gunman was able to inflict heavy damages by killing 58 and injuring almost 500 people because of a vantage point from his room on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel. The gory incident is now being regarded as the worst mass shooting in recent American history.
What is surprising this time is the fact that the lone shooter identified as Stephen Craig Paddock is 64. He kept on firing and picking off people from the crowd below his hotel room window at the Mandalay Casio and Bay Resort. The crowd at the country music festival going down below numbered a good 20,000 strong.
1People were dropping like flies
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Once people realized what was happening and victims began falling down dead before their eyes, there was panic as the terrified crowd thinking they were under a terrorist attack ran for their lives.
Witnesses statements were record by new agencies as saying ‘’ “We heard what sounded like firecrackers going off. Then all of a sudden we heard what sounded like a machine gun. People started screaming that they were hit," witness Meghan Kearney told MSNBC. "When we started running out, there were probably a couple hundred [people] on the ground.”
Eye witness accounts said that victims were dropping like flies as some were shot one foot away from those who survived. The rapid fire shots were heard everywhere.
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