2Facts about the suspect
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Police have confirmed that the suspect Stephen Craig 64 shot himself before police could break into his room. Earlier reports believed that police officials had shot him instead. Craig had checked into the hotel on the 28th of September as stated by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sheriff Joseph Lombardo. Police even found more than 10 rifles in his room which suggested he had planned the ghastly crime.
The Las Vegas shooting has been termed as an act of pure evil by President Donald Trump. The office of the white house and the US Capitol lowered their flags at half mast in respect of those who died in the shooting.
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3Witnesses said it was like machine gun fire
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The Las Vegas shooting is in no way connected to any terrorist act or group but was the actions of a deranged man. Former Police Sheriif Bill Young’s daughter who was attending the concert said the shots sounded like machine gun fire as she and her friends took cover.
Young was reported to have said “"I picked up the phone, my cell phone, and she was screaming and yelling, 'Dad, dad, dad, dad, somebody’s shooting at us, and I don’t know what to do.' She was hysterical and I tried to just calm her down," Young said. "She could hear the gun shots — sounded like a machine gun, she said — and they didn’t know where they were coming from. She had nowhere to take cover, so I told her just to run as fast as she could, as quick as she could out of the arena. Get as far away from it as she could where she thought the line of fire might be."
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