According to the police, the attacker was a 64-year-old local resident named Stephen Paddock.

Law enforcers shot a criminal who was on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and opened fire on the audience of a concert of country music, which was held nearby, in an open area.

The incident occurred in front of the famous casino Mandalay Bay Casino. It is noted that according to the representative of the local hospital at least 14 victims are in critical condition.

So, the sheriff Joe Lombardo said that the police consider shooting a man - "a loner", and not a member of an organized criminal gang.

Nevertheless, law enforcement officers are looking for an Asian woman named Marila Daneli, who may be implicated in the attack.

Finally, the sheriff confirmed that among the dead during the shooting were two police officers who, at the time of the attack, did not carry a service.

As previously reported in URA-Inform, a detained man accused of a terrorist attack in London turned out to be a refugee from Iraq, law enforcers practically on the same day were able to take a trace and arrest the perpetrator.