2017 Las Vegas shooting

Coordinates: 36°5'42"N 115°10'18"W


Mandalay Bay Hotel
Route 91 Harvest country music festival grounds

Location: Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
Coordinates: 36°5'42"N 115°10'18"W
Date: October 1, 2017; 7 years ago; c. 10:05 – 10:15 p.m. (PDT; UTC–07:00)
Target: Audience of the Route 91 Harvest music festival
Attack type: Mass shooting, murder–suicide, mass murder
Weapons: 24 firearms
Deaths: 61 (including two victims who died in 2019 and 2020, and the perpetrator)
Injured: ~ 867 (413+ by gunfire or shrapnel)
Perpetrator: Stephen Craig Paddock
Motive: Unknown

On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada from his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay hotel. He fired more than 1,000 bullets, killing 60 people and wounding at least 413. The ensuing panic brought the total number of injured to approximately 867. About an hour later, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The motive for the shooting is officially undetermined.

The incident is the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in American history. It focused attention on firearms laws in the U.S., particularly with regard to bump stocks, which Paddock used to fire shots in rapid succession, at a rate similar to that of automatic firearms. Bump stocks were banned by the U.S. Justice Department in December 2018, but the constitutionality of the ban remained under review until 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case.

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