April 9, 1953 - Stephen Paddock
The 2017 Las Vegas shooting remains the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, carried out by a man with no prior criminal record and no clear ideological motive that investigators were ever able to establish. Paddock fired from a hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay into a densely packed outdoor crowd, exploiting both elevation and the concentration of festival attendees to maximize casualties. The absence of any discernible motive has made this case a persistent subject of study in the fields of criminology and threat assessment.
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Stephen Craig Paddock (April 9, 1953 – October 1, 2017) was an American mass murderer who perpetrated the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. Paddock opened fire into a crowd of about 22,000 concertgoers attending a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip, killing 60 people and injuring approximately 867 (at least 413 of whom were wounded by gunfire). Paddock killed himself in his hotel room following the shooting after seeing police SWAT teams coming towards the hotel. The incident is the deadliest mass shooting by a lone shooter in United States history. Paddock's motive remains officially undetermined, and the possible factors are the subject of speculation.
Paddock was a real-estate investor, property manager, accountant, private pilot and video poker gambler who lived in Mesquite, Nevada.
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