Vegas massacre: More than 50 dead, 400 hurt in worst mass shooting in US history

(Update) Vegas massacre: More than 58 dead, 500+ hurt in worst mass shooting in US history

Vegas massacre: More than 50 dead in worst mass shooting in US history

Monday, 2 October 2017, 11:16 PM


By Reuters - October 2, 2017 @ 7:06pm

LAS VEGAS: A gunman killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 200 at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, raining down rapid fire from the 32nd floor of a hotel for several minutes before he was shot dead by police.

https://assets.nst.com.my/images/art...1506942359.jpgA body lies under a sheet as fire and rescue personnel gather at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Ave. after a mass shooting at a country music festival nearby in Las Vegas, Nevada. AFP

The death toll, which police emphasized was preliminary and tentative, would make the attack the deadliest mass shooting in US history, eclipsing last year's massacre of 49 people at an Orlando night club.

Thousands of panicked people fled the scene, in some cases trampling one another as law enforcement officers scrambled to locate and kill the gunman. Shocked concertgoers, some with blood on their clothes, wandered the streets after the attack.

https://assets.nst.com.my/images/art...1506942361.jpgA handout photo made available by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on 02 October 2017 shows Sheriff Joe Lombardo (2nd right) speaking during a press briefing in the aftermath of the active shooter incident on Las Vegas Boulevard. EPA-EFF

The suspect was a local Las Vegas man who acted alone and was not believed to be connected to any militant group, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters.

"We have no idea what his belief system was," Lombardo said. "Right now, we believe he was the sole aggressor and the scene is static."

https://assets.nst.com.my/images/art...1506942371.jpgThis undated portrait released on October 2 by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police shows Marilou Danley the alleged roommate of the gunman that killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 200 others during a country music concert as she is being sought for questionning. AFP

Authorities were seeking a woman they named as Marilou Danley, the suspected gunman's roommate. Lombardo described her as Asian, 4 foot 11 inches (1.5 m) tall, 111 pounds (50 kg). He gave no details of whether she was suspected of involvement in the attack but described her as an "associate".

https://assets.nst.com.my/images/art...1506942368.jpgAn injured person is tended to in the intersection of Tropicana Ave. and Las Vegas Boulevard. AFP

Police had located two cars that belonged to the suspect and also believed they had located the woman.

Lombardo said rumours of other shootings or explosives such as car bombs in the area were false. Video taken of the attack showed panicked crowds fleeing as sustained rapid gunfire ripped through the area.

Las Vegas's casinos, nightclubs and shopping draw some 3.5 million visitors from around the world each year and the area was packed with visitors when the shooting broke out shortly after 10 pm (0400 GMT).

Mike McGarry, a 53-year-old financial adviser from Philadelphia, said he was at the concert when he heard hundreds of shots ring out.

"It was crazy - I laid on top of the kids. They're 20. I'm 53. I lived a good life," McGarry said. The back of his shirt bore footmarks, after people ran over him in the panicked crowd. -- REUTERS

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People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after the shooting incident. AFP


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The gunman responsible for killing at least 50 people and injuring more than 400 at a crowded country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip has been identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock. ... Paddock was a Mesquite, Nevada resident, which is located about an hour outside Las Vegas ...

Las Vegas shooting: What we know about suspect Stephen Paddock

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Stephen Paddock, 64, is the man suspected of killing more than 50 people and injuring more than 400 in Las Vegas on Sunday night in what is now believed to be the worst mass shooting in US history, police said today.

According to police, the shooter opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino at a large crowd of more than 20,000 concertgoers across the street attending the final night of the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival.

Witnesses described the shooting as "nonstop gunfire,” suggesting the use of automatic or semi-automatic weapons.

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Police responded to the scene Sunday night and breached the suspect's hotel room and found the suspect dead. Officials said they did not believe there were any more shooters.

Police said "numerous firearms" were found in Paddock's hotel room at Mandalay Bay.

Police had been seeking to question the suspect’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley, 62, who appears to have lived with Paddock in Mesquite, Nev., about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas, but authorities do not believe she was involved in the shooting as she was located out of the country.

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The motive for the shooting remains unclear. Police said Paddock had no criminal history, save a minor citation. He appears to have worked as an accountant or auditor and was at one point employed by a company that later become Lockheed Martin, one of the world’s largest defense contractors.

"Stephen Paddock worked for a predecessor company of Lockheed Martin from 1985 until 1988," the company tells ABC in a statement. "We’re cooperating with authorities to answer questions they may have about Mr. Paddock and his time with the company."

Paddock was also a licensed hunter and private pilot. He owned an aircraft that he kept at Mesquite Metro Airport in Texas from 2007 to 2009.

“I do not recall that he was ever a person who created any problems for us,” the airport director told ABC News. “He kept his accounts up to date and we never had any problems with him here."

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Eric Paddock, the suspected shooter’s brother, told ABC News that the family was completely “dumbstruck” by the news, likening the revelation to being “crushed by an asteroid.”

“We have no idea how or why this happened,” Eric Paddock said. “As far as we know, Steve was perfectly fine.”

Officers also responded to the suspect's home and executed a search warrant, where police said they found additional weapons and ammunition.

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At a mid-morning press conference, Clark County Sheriff said the death toll in Sunday's mass shooting had risen to 58, and the number of wounded to 515.

October 2, 2017 11:44am EDT
Police: No known link between shooter and any foreign terror group

A police official told reporters this morning that investigators have not found a link between shooter Stephen Paddock and any foreign terrorist group.
He added that this shooting will be "factually" and "thoroughly" investigated.

Another report stated he was known to have psychological problems. And his brother said he had one rifle and hand guns. After moving to Nevada, apparently he bought 10 rifles. Unfortunately, the state does not require registration or permits. Buying 10 rifles would have set off some alarm bells if they did. His father was a violent bank robber on the FBIs most wanted list in the '60s.

Before Las Vegas shooting, gunman was settling into retirement

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10/2/17

(Reuters) - At first glance, it seemed Stephen Paddock, 64, was set for a quiet life in a retirement community in Mesquite, amid the red desert hills of Nevada where he had bought a new home in 2015 near his beloved casinos.

From there, it was only an hour’s drive to Las Vegas, where he embarked Sunday on the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history before killing himself.

His brother, Eric Paddock, said he was a peaceful man who moved back to Nevada, where gambling is legal, partly because of his fondness for video poker.

“He’s never drawn his gun, it makes no sense,” Paddock said from his doorstep in Orlando, Florida. His brother had a couple of handguns he kept in a safe, perhaps a long rifle, “but no automatic weapons.”

Eric Paddock said he had helped his brother move away from Central Florida’s humidity to Nevada. The two were last in touch last month, texting about power outages after Hurricane Irma slammed into Florida.

Their father was Patrick Benjamin Paddock, a violent bank robber who was on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Most Wanted list in the 1960s, NBC News reported.

The shooter himself had no criminal record apart from a traffic violation, police in Las Vegas said.

A former neighbor named Sharon Judy in Viera, Florida, told the Orlando Sentinel that Stephen Paddock was a friendly man who said he was a professional gambler. He had shown her a picture of him after he won a $20,000 slot-machine jackpot, she said.

In recent weeks, Paddock made gambling transactions worth tens of thousands of dollars, though it was unclear whether they were wins or losses, NBC News reported, citing unnamed law enforcement officials.

‘NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY’
Public records point to an itinerant existence across the American West and Southeast: A few years in California, a few years in other parts of Nevada.

Paddock had a hunting license in Texas, where he lived for a while. He got his pilot license, and had at least one single-engine aircraft registered in his name.

In early 2015, he bought a modest two-story home in a new housing development for retirees on the dusty edge of Mesquite, a small desert town popular with golfers and gamblers that straddles the Nevada border with Arizona.

“It’s a nice, clean home and nothing out of the ordinary,” Quinn Averett, a Mesquite police department spokesman, told reporters on Monday. Some guns and ammunition were found inside, though nothing remarkable in a region where gun ownership is high.

An hour’s drive southwest is Las Vegas, where Paddock checked into a 32nd-floor room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino last Thursday with at least 10 rifles for a shooting spree that would kill least 58 people and hurt more than 500.

The FBI said he had no connection with international militant groups.
Before moving to Mesquite, Nevada, he lived in another town called Mesquite in Texas, where he worked as the manager of an apartment complex called Central Park.

Records as recent as 2015 list Paddock as single, though it appears he may have married while living in California in the 1980s. Police and public records said he lived with Marilou Danley in the Nevada retirement community. Police said she had no connection with the attack, CNN reported.

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This is the most important story in America today and needs to get maximum coverage.

This is the most bizarre of all shootings. This guy was an accountant, worked for Lockheed Martin for awhile. No social media stuff, lived different places, Florida, California, moved to Nevada to get out of Florida humidity, managed some apartments, likes to gamble, likes to hunt, no political or religious fanaticism, owned a couple of hand guns, apparently some hunting rifles. No military background. Has owned a couple of planes, loves Vegas to gamble and enjoys country music, so it makes perfect sense he would be there to enjoy the festival and do some gambling. It's a strange one, it really makes you wonder ...

Brother: Las Vegas gunman was wealthy real-estate investor

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MESQUITE, Nev. (AP) — Stephen Paddock lived in a tidy Nevada retirement community where the amenities include golf, tennis and bocce. He was a multimillionaire real-estate investor . . .

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Just so ordinary. Hard to figure ... very strange.

More will be revealed - some stories say he had mental issues with recent ones in Nevada, some stories say his father was a ruthless, violent bank robber that managed to escape prison to be on the FBI most wanted list. Sometimes the apple does not fall far from the tree.

Not a good idea for Nevada to allow unlimited buying of rifles w/o background checks and follow thru reason for needing 10 rifles. It is someone going off right there.

Maybe he had mental derangement by genes and/or howard hughes syndrome. Aside from the above, I've seen many men that think they can do whatever the hell they want and live their lives that way obnoxiously, but some of them have a dangerous genetic screw loose with harmful results. There must be a way to achieve a viable mental evaluation formula re this gun buying and for every state.

Las Vegas shooting: Did guns use bump-stocks to fire more?

• 10/3/17 3 hours ago
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US media are reporting that the gunman who killed almost 60 people at a concert in Las Vegas on Sunday may have used legal but controversial accessories to allow semi-automatic rifles to fire hundreds of rounds per minute.

Two officials told the Associated Press that two devices known as "bump-stocks" had been found along with 23 guns inside Stephen Paddock's room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.

It is not yet clear whether the stocks were fitted to the weapons that Paddock used in the massacre, but experts say they could explain the rapid rate of fire heard in videos shared on social media.
Audio analysis of one clip estimated that about 90 rounds were unleashed in only 10 seconds - far faster than a human being could repeatedly pull a trigger.

Since Congress passed the Firearm Owners' Protection Act in 1986, it has been extremely difficult for civilians to buy new, fully automatic weapons, which reload automatically and fire continuously as long as the trigger is depressed.

Thousands of "grandfathered" weapons - those manufactured and registered before 1986 - can still be bought, but they are very expensive and all sales must be approved by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

It is also illegal to modify the internal components of semi-automatic rifles - which typically manage about 60 aimed shots per minute - to make them fully automatic.

However, gun owners can legally buy accessories to increase the rate of fire.
One option is a "trigger crank", "hellfire trigger", or "gat crank", which bolts on to the trigger guard of a semi-automatic rifle and depresses the trigger several times with every rotation.
A bump-stock, or "slide fire", meanwhile harnesses a rifle's recoil. It replaces the weapon's stock, which is held against the shoulder, and allows the rest of the rifle to slide back and forward with every shot despite having no mechanical parts or springs.

The motion makes the trigger collide with, or bump, the shooter's finger as long as they apply forward pressure with the non-shooting hand and rearward pressure with the shooting hand.

Following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut in 2012, California Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced a bill that sought to ban bump-stocks and similar devices, saying that manufacturers were exploiting "loopholes" to circumvent gun laws. However, the bill was defeated in the Senate.
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First look at guns used in Las Vegas shooter's hotel room

Gabby Kaufman Reporter
,Yahoo News•October 3, 2017

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The first photographs taken inside Las Vegas shooting suspect Stephen Paddock’s hotel room show two of the 23 guns used Sunday night to carry out a rampage that killed 59 and injured 527 more, the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history.
Boston 25 News, a Fox affiliate, obtained the photos.

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Police said Paddock used a hammer to smash the window of a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino before shooting relentlessly into the crowd below gathered for the last performance of a country music festival.

The photos show the hammer, two of the 23 guns, ammunition and a bipod, used to stand a gun. Police said 19 additional firearms were found in Paddock’s Mesquite, Nev., home.

One of the main questions surrounding the massacre is how Paddock was able to fire his weapons into the crowd at a fully automatic rate. Officials told the Associated Press that Paddock used so-called bump stocks to allow his semiautomatic weapons to fire continuously.

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October 3, 2017 1:38pm EDT
Vegas shooter wired $100,000 to the Philippines

From CNN's Jessica Schneider
A law enforcement official confirms that Stephen Paddock wired $100,000 to the Philippines. However, officials aren’t yet able to see when he sent the money. They also don’t know the recipient. The FBI is working with authorities in the Philippines to determine additional details.
Also, the official reiterated there are still no ties that they’ve seen to international terrorism.
NBC first reported the $100,000 transfer.

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It's just a terrible thing, inexplicable so far. Something very strange about this one. Makes no sense at all. Maybe we'll know more when they've had the chance to review the videos of the comings and goings and after the autopsy.

Las Vegas shooter’s girlfriend is a person of interest, police say

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Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock’s girlfriend is now considered a person of interest in the investigation, Las Vegas police said in a news conference.

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Stephen Paddock’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley, 62-- who was out the country at the time of the Las Vegas Strip massacre-- arrived in the U.S. late Tuesday and was met by federal agents at Los Angeles International Airport.

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Sheriff: Traffic stop turns up assault rifles, 900 rounds

October 4, 2017 2:09pm EDT
Vegas shooter bought weapons in these 5 states

Authorities found 47 guns at the shooter's hotel suite in the Mandalay Bay Resort and his homes in Mesquite and Reno. Here's where the shooter Stephen Paddock bought weapons:
Arizona:

• He purchased weapons from a dealer in Arizona, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said at a news conference Monday.

California:

• The location and the number of weapons purchased is unknown. But Jill Snyder, special agent in charge of ATF field division in San Francisco, said some of the guns seized were bought in this state.

Nevada:

• Cabela's in Verdi: A law enforcement official told CNN that Paddock bought several guns there.
• New Frontier Armory in North Las Vegas: Paddock purchased several firearms and passed all state and federal background requirements, the store's president David Famiglietti said.
• Guns & Guitars in Mesquite: The shooter bought a handgun and two rifles there last year, according to the shop's general manager Christopher Sullivan.
• Discount Firearms and Ammo in Las Vegas: Paddock bought two rifles and a handgun during two separate visits in 2016, said the shop's managing partner, Dennis Keck.

Texas:

• The location and the number of weapons purchased is unknown. ATF special agent Snyder said guns were also purchased in this state.

Utah:

• Dixie GunWorx in St. George: Paddock bought a shotgun there.

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Stephen Paddock bought 33 firearms in the last year

From CNN's Kyung Lah

Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock bought 33 firearms, mostly rifles, in the last year, according to an ATF spokesperson.

The firearms were purchased between October 2016 and September 2017, the ATF spokesperson said.

CBS first reported that Paddock purchases 33 firearms in the last year.

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Puerto Rico Faces Critical Drug Shortage as Walgreens Restores Service

by JOHN TORRES, M.D. and SHAMARD CHARLES, M.D.

CAGUAS, Puerto Rico — Brenda Figueroa, 29, a lawyer in Puerto Rico isn’t representing clients in court today — she is one of hundreds waiting on a long line at Walgreens Sunday, hoping for a refill on her grandmother’s blood pressure prescription, treatment she desperately needs.

In towns like Caguas, just forty minutes southeast of San Juan, cell phone and internet coverage still have not been restored. Medication is in short supply and residents are waiting anxiously for medical care.

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“I’ve been to three Walgreens. I’ve been turned away twice. They say they don’t have the systems, so ... they won’t dispatch these medications,” said Figueroa, who has patiently waited hours for the life-saving medication.

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The “system” Figueroa is referring to is the computer authentication program needed to verify her grandmother’s prescription. As of Tuesday, only 76 of the 120 Walgreen pharmacies across the island are open, many on a limited basis and powered by generators.

On Monday, the pharmacy chain said in a statement that “many of our open stores have network connectivity via the internet because those connections are separate from phone or cell service”, but later noted that “some select locations may have systems that are impacted intermittently by the ongoing power and connectivity issues.”

“Puerto Ricans always help Puerto Ricans, we’ll get back on our feet soon.”In Caguas, temporary pharmacy services are being set up and disaster relief organizations such as Heart to Heart International are working with local authorities to get medication to the most vulnerable: anti-rejection drugs to prevent organ failure in transplant patients and daily blood pressure medications for the elderly. Heart to Heart has 18 volunteer doctor, nurses, and administrators from around the U.S. and has been in Puerto Rico for 10 days.

Related: Hurricane Maria Leaves Puerto Rico Facing Months Without Power

“Getting medication is a big challenge,” said Susan Mangicaro, executive director of global response for Heart to Heart International.

Local pharmacies have been ordered by the Secretary of Health to provide medication for all uninsured patients, Mangicaro said, although some patients are reporting problems with getting their prescriptions filled. "Medical emergencies become crises without access to medication,” said Mangicaro, acknowledging that difficulty in communication, especially in mountainous regions, has hampered the response time for medical care. "But we’re beginning to see our efforts fall into place."

Related: FEMA Chief Brock Long Says Puerto Rico Relief ‘Most Logistically Challenging Event’ U.S. Has Ever Seen

For Brenda Figueroa, a positive outlook and a healthy perspective have helped her survive the dire aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

“I know it’s a difficult situation, it’s difficult for everybody, so you know, we just have to work with what we have right now and hopefully soon we will get what we need,” said Figueroa. “Puerto Ricans always help Puerto Ricans. We’ll get back on our feet soon.”

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Stephen Paddock's father launched violent attack in Las Vegas decades ago
Benjamin Paddock was a career criminal who was referred to as dangerous and psychopathic

Andrew Griffin @_andrew_griffin Tuesday 3 October 2017 19:57 BST
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A picture from Paddock's entry on the FBI's most wanted website Stephen Paddock's father launched a violent attack in Las Vegas decades ago, with chilling parallels to his son's massacre in the same city.

Almost 60 years before his son would use an arsenal of weapons to kill at least 59 people in the Nevada city, Benjamin Hoskins Paddock was involved in a violent incident in Las Vegas himself. Just like Stephen Paddock, his father was pursued by police through the city and he used violence to repel them – unlike Benjamin, he survived and would go on to have a career of crime.

Much has been made of Paddock's father's history of criminal activity, for which he was so notorious that he was on the FBI's 10 most wanted list. It is perhaps the only significant clue that anything was unusual about Stephen Paddock, a man who otherwise has been largely described as normal and never likely to commit such a horrifying atrocity.

Part of that violent past includes the confrontation in Las Vegas, which saw Paddock's father come across police while he was on the run. Though the majority of his crime was bank robbery, he appears also to have a streak of violence that led him into trouble with the law. Stephen Paddock's father was on FBI's 10 most wanted list In 1960, Benjamin Paddock was charged with stealing $25,000 from three different banks in Arizona, where he and his son are thought to have lived.

He immediately went on the run, but was identified by a member of staff who spotted strange radio antennas on a car. A couple of days later came the incident in Las Vegas. Authorities chased him to there and attempted to arrest him – but he drove his car into FBI agents, and one of them fired through his windscreen but failed to stop him. He was stopped and arrested shortly after that violent incident in Las Vegas. When he was found, his car had weapons including a gun inside it.

Just like his son, Paddock's neighbours expressed shock and surprise that he could possibly be involved in crime. They described him as quiet and unremarkable. Stephen Paddock's brother Eric said that they had little to do with their infamous father. He said Benjamin was on the run when they were born and they were raised by his mother, and obituaries don't mention either Stephen or Eric.
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Just in: Source confirms Bruce Paddock, brother of Vegas shooter, taken into custody this morning in L.A. on suspicion of child porn crimes.
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TMZ was the first to report the arrest, adding that Bruce Paddock had child porn on his computer.

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MGM Resorts to pay up to $800 million in Vegas massacre settlement

By Paul ConnerFOXBusiness

MGM Resorts agreed to paid up to $800 million in a settlement with plaintiffs who alleged the company was liable in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, lawyers said Thursday.

Stephen Paddock shot and killed 58 people, injuring more than 800, from the 32nd floor of MGM Resorts' Mandalay Bay.

Paddock, 64, brought a massive stockpile of weapons in bags and luggage into his hotel room before firing more than 1,100 rounds of ammunition on a crowd at a country music festival. The massacre was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

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MGM's insurers will to pay the settlement, worth between $735 million and $800 million, by late 2020, the lawyers said.

"Our goal has always been to resolve these matters so our community and the victims and their families can move forward in the healing process," Jim Murren, chairman and CEO of MGM Resorts, said in a statement. "This agreement with the Plaintiffs’ Counsel is a major step, and one that we hoped for a long time would be possible. We have always believed that prolonged litigation around these matters is in no one’s best interest. It is our sincere hope that this agreement means that scenario will be avoided."

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With the settlement, the plaintiffs agreed to drop lawsuits that alleged that MGM caused physical and psychological harm by allowing Paddock to stockpile the weapons.

A court will appoint an independent claims administrator to divvy up money among the plaintiffs.
"While nothing will be able to bring back the lives lost or undo the horrors so many suffered on that day, this settlement will provide fair compensation for thousands of victims and their families," said Robert Eglet, a lead Plaintiffs’ Counsel. "MGM Resorts is a valued member of the Las Vegas community and this settlement represents good corporate citizenship on their part."

MGM Resorts International, owner of the hotel and the venue, has announced plans to convert the now-shuttered concert space to parking while it plans a community center and a place to remember victims.

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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2017, file photo, windows are broken at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino in Las Vegas, the room from where Stephen Craig Paddock fired on a nearby music festival, killing 58 and injuring hundreds on Oct. 1. (AP Photo/John Loc


Authorities have still not determined a motive for Paddock's attack.

Las Vegas remembered the two-year anniversary of the shooting Tuesday by reading the names of each victim.

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