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1 Like us on Facebook for the latest news and features on northeastern important mining industry. WEATHER A3 OPINION A7 SPORTS A5 SCHOOLS B1 OBITUARIES B3 COMICS B7 $1.50 Volume 134, Issue 196 A Lee Enterprises Newspaper Copyright 2017 Follow us online: facebook.com/elkodaily twitter.com@ElkoDaily Use the button at the bottom of our home page for a quick link to send a letter to the editor. AT ELKODAILY.COM DISCOVER DIGITAL MOSTLY SUNNY 56 30 FORECAST, A3 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2017 elkodaily.com SPRING CREEK HOMECOMING King and queen candidates PAGE B1 Motive is a mystery; Trump calls for unity OF PURE SALLY HO AND REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press LAS VEGAS The re popping sounded like recrackers at rst, and many in the crowd of 22,000 country music fans understand what was happen- ing when the band stopped playing and singer Jason Aldean hustled stage. gun- a man could be heard say- ing emphatically on a cellphone video in the nearly half-minute of silence and confusion that followed. A woman pleaded with others: down! Get down! Stay Then the pop-pop-pop noise re- sumed.

And pure terror set in. start screaming and yelling and we start said Andrew Akiyoshi, who provided the cellphone video to The Asso- ciated Press. could feel the panic. You could feel like the bullets DAVID BECKER, GETTY IMAGES People run from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after re was heard Sunday night in Las Vegas. A gunman opened re on a music festival, killing at least 59 and injuring 527.

TONI R. MILANO ELKO An outdoor country music festival turned into trag- edy Sunday night when a gun- man red into a crowd of more than 22,000, killing at least 58 people and injuring 515. Attending the three-day Route 91 Harvest Festival was Keith Moyle, an Elko native now living in Tonopah. He was with friends 150 feet away from the stage on the southeast side of the com- plex, watching Jason Aldean per- form when shots rang out. rst it sounded like re- crackers or Moyle said, speaking from Tonopah.

rst pop-pop-pop and then everyone was like going and some people got down. Former Elkoan describes scene LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press ATLANTA As a staging area for a massacre, a high-rise Las Vegas hotel provided a perfect vantage point. Mandalay Bay Hotel and Ca- sino is used to seeing people coming and going at all hours, and it likely at all di cult for the gunman who killed more than 50 people and injured more Las Vegas shooting shows ease of having weapons in hotels Sniper opens on outdoor concert from Las Vegas high-rise hotel At least 59 dead, 527 injured in largest mass shooting in U.S. history Paddock Deadliest shooting 59 are dead and 527 injured in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

59 Vegas shooting, 2017 50 Pulse nightclub in Orlando, 2016 33 Virginia Tech massacre, 2007 26 Newtown school shooting, 2012 24 Luby's massacre, 1991 22 San Ysidro McDonald's shooting, 1984 15 U.S. Postal Service shooting, 1986 14 Binghamton shootings, 2009 Source: Associated Press More online: For exclusive galleries and video content, see our website. Please see WEAPONS, Page A2Please see SCENE, Page A2 JOHN LOCHER, ASSOCIATED PRESS Drapes billow out of broken windows Monday at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, following a deadly shooting at a music festival. A gunman was found dead inside a hotel room. Please see SHOOTING, Page A2.