On the night of October 2, an armed criminal opened fire in the center of Las Vegas. The main information known to this hour.

The shooting began around 10 pm Sunday (in Moscow was 8 am Monday). The perpetrator, who was on the balcony of the 32nd floor of the casino Mandalay Bay, opened fire on a crowd of people heading for the country music festival. According to eyewitnesses, the shooter released at least 10 bursts of automatic weapons.

As a result of the shooting, according to the latest information, more than 50 people died. More than two hundred were injured. Among the dead there was at least one police officer who was not on duty. Two more policemen were wounded directly during the operation to neutralize the offender; one of them is in critical condition.

A post shared by Randy (girl) Kindred (@randy_kindred_girl_) on Oct 1, 2017 at 10:56 pm PDT The shooter was killed by policemen. His identity is already established, he turned out to be a 64-year-old local man named Steven Paddock. Motives for his actions are still unclear. The police said at the same time that he was not associated with any terrorist or extremist groups.

According to police, only one person fired. At the same time, a woman named Marila Danley, who could be an accomplice of an attacker, was looking for her - she lived in the same house with a dead shooter. The police stressed that they want to "talk to her" and while the woman does not have the status of a suspect.

Because of the incident, the international airport of Las Vegas was temporarily closed. In addition, all the hotels were closed in the area adjacent to the site of the incident, their residents were temporarily banned from leaving the building.

By the number of victims shooting in Las Vegas has already become the largest in the history of the United States. Previously, the maximum number of victims of a single incident of this kind was shooting at a gay club in Orlando in June 2016: 49 people were killed.