Updated at 11:00 ADST on 03/10/2017
At least 59 people were killed and 527 injured in Las Vegas Sunday night when a gunman opened fire on a music festival crowd from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, in what is now the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.
The death toll from the incident could possibly go up, said Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg in a press conference Monday afternoon.
Updated at 00:00 ADST on 03/10/2017
A gunman has killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 200 at a country music festival in Las Vegas Strip, raining down rapid fire from the 32nd floor of a hotel for several minutes before he was shot dead by police.
The death toll, which police emphasised was preliminary, would make the attack the deadliest mass shooting in US history, eclipsing last year's massacre of 49 people at an Orlando nightclub.
Las Vegas Sherriff Joseph Lombardo said the suspected shooter was caught by police on the 32nd flood of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino after they were called at 10:08pm local time on Monday about reports of shots being fired towards the Route 91 Harvest festival.
Officers responded to the incident and engaged with the suspected shooter, who was a local resident, at the location but he has since died.
Sherriff Lambardo said the shooter was accompanied by a woman named Marilou Danley who was wanted for questioning over the incident.
