Las Vegas Shooting Research Paper

The Las Vegas Shooting On October 1st, at around 10PM, a gunman started shooting in the crowd for eleven minutes of continuous fire. Just image that, scary huh? It’s crazy to think that someone, that seemed so normal, wanting to take the lives of innocent people. Why no one knows what caused this or if there was any way to prevent it, for whatever reason it was a very tragic event. The shooting took place at Route 91 Harvest music festival where Jason Aldean was performing at the time that this happened at. The crazy part is that the shooter was approximately one thousand-two hundred feet away from the venue. This shooting left all of those 22,000 people heartbroken in some way shape or form. Although this is the deadliest mass shooting in American history, police are not calling it domestic terrorism. This is because he has no clear motive, and or no political reasoning for why he did it. The person who was responsible for this shooting is
Stephen Paddock. His friends, family, and police still don’t know his motive to take so many innocent country music fans lives; he loved country music and to gamble. Stephen had no criminal record nor a violent past; although, his father was a well-known bank robber. When they started to investigate more about him they found that we had sent some money to the Philippines, but police aren’t sure what for at this point in time. Paddock was sixty-four years old and lived in his Nevada home with his girlfriend as a retired accountant. In Paddock’s home investigators found thousands of round of bullets, an explosive, and chemical tannerite; they also found ammonium nitrate, a chemical for bomb-making, in his car. Paddock checked in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on September 28th, 2017. He was staying on the 32nd floor of the hotel. During his stay many hotel staff members went in and out of his room and noticed nothing suspicious; although, he had ten or more suitcases in his room while he was the only one staying. Also, the hotel staff said, “it wasn’t evident that he had weapons in his room.” Police found a total of twenty-three guns in the room, and another nineteen were found in his home. Police also think that he had had this planned out for awhile with all the details perfect. After he was done shooting into the crowd, he shot himself. Little did Paddock know, he took many lives of innocent people.
After all the chaos was over, fifty-eight people were pronounced dead, fifty-nine including the shooter, and over five hundred were injured. Some of the people that were injured suffered bullet shot wounds and some trying to recover from being stampede over. Leaving the “Las Vegas Shooting” the deadliest mass shooting in America. This is an event that shook the nation, everyone is involved in some way shape or form. From the people who were there witnessing people being shot, dropping, and bleeding; or the people at home who love country music, all the singer apart of the music festival, and those watching some of the horrifying videos from that night. No one knows why a retired accountant would want to take the lives of so many innocent people having fun. It’s crazy to think that these people were having the time of their lives, and some people’s lives changed forever in a matter of seconds because someone was out of their
mind.