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SPOT A MISTAKE? Please contact editor Jeffry Mullins to have a correction published in this space. call 738- 3118 or send email to Weapons From A1 than 500 attending an open air concert on the streets below to bring in a cache of weapons un- detected to his 32nd floor hotel room. Suitcases can hide a mul- titude of sins, and he had days to bring in his firearms and ammo. Stephen Craig Paddock, a 64-year-old retiree from Mes- quite, Nevada, had a stockpile of rifles and other weapons in his room, where been a guest since late last week. Conven- tioneers carting in large con- tainers filled items they plan to put on display or sell, tourists with suitcases and shopping bags and resort-goers with golf clubs would be common at the 44-story, hotel.

Security experts say next-to-impossible without metal detectors or a massive change in typical U.S. hotel secu- rity standards to prevent some- one from bringing in weapons or other contraband. can bring a long gun in disassembled in a small suitcase. Nobody would think twice about somebody carrying in a golf bag, or something like a big snow ski said Angela Hrdlicka, a for- mer Secret Service agent who is now a private security consultant for Major League Baseball parks and other professional sports. on the amount of ammu- nition that this guy threw down there, he took more than one trip or he had a luggage cart that was carrying all this Paddock staged himself in a room on the 32nd floor of the hotel that towers over the Las Vegas Strip with a prime view of the Route 91 Harvest Festival taking place below.

Authorities say he took a hammer to the win- dow and began spewing a stac- cato beat of rounds to the crowd below. The shooter appeared to fire unhindered for more than 10 minutes as police searched fran- tically for the origin of the shots. Investigators gave few details on the weapons used, but reported over the radio that they were faced with fully automatic fire. Stephen Barth, a hotel secu- rity expert and professor at the Conrad Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management at the University of Houston, said it be unusual for house- keeping or other hotel staff not to know what he was storing in the room. Mandalay Bay in particu- lar hosts three, four, five conven- tions a day and not unusual for guests to have containers in their Barth said.

would not be the common practice for housekeepers to get into those containers while clean- ing the room. And as a matter of fact it would be just the opposite. Housekeepers are trained to re- spect privacy, to not in- terfere with their The concertgoers attending the music festival encountered wands used to detect firearms and pat downs before getting inside far more security than the hotel guests encountered. There were several officers on- and off-duty attending the festival. But those who were on the ground stood little chance to identify quickly and accurately the exact location of the shooter, and then safely and accurately exchange gunfire from that far away.

And then it happened again, you could hear bullets around Moyle said he saw dropping everywhere. It was He hid behind a piece of metal see what was going and soon a couple joined him. The girl was bleeding heavily from her arm. told her friend to keep direct pressure the Moyle said. could see from her heartbeat an artery got Moyle said the scene was hysteria, He started to run, even though bullets were still coming down.

seemed like Moyle said. shooting and shooting and shooting. A bullet hit next to me, and it sprayed rocks on my Separated from his i who at the start of the i Moyle ran away from the crowds and toward the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, running through and exiting the building until he got to a gas station. guy gave me a ride back to my Moyle said, adding that his feet were little bit scraped because he kicked his flip-flops off to run. His friends ended up at a shelter set up at Thomas Mack Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Moyle said. The shooter, Stephen Craig Paddock, 64, of Mesquite was found dead of an apparent suicide in his hotel room on the 44th floor at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. The motive for the shooting remains unclear, according to Las Vegas authorities. one knew what was going Moyle said. could tell it was coming from the Scene From A1 ANTHONY MORI, ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS elho High school senior Lexi baum is crowned the eHs homecoming queen Friday during the football game Friday night at Warrior Field.

ANTHONY MORI, ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS elko High school senior abraham Palomino is crowned the eHs homecoming king Friday during the pep assembly at centennial Gymnasium. He is joined by his mother Gabriela Palomino. PAHRUMP A report of an active shooter situation prompted a lockdown of Nye County schools includ- ing Great Basin Pahrump center Monday. The lockdown was can- celled at 12:30 p.m., accord- ing to GBC. GBC released a text and email alert to students, fac- ulty and staff informing of the lockdown situation by the Nye County School District.

According to KTNV, a known felon took his child to school Monday, resulting in a lockdown of all schools. deputies cleared each school as precaution. No injuries were reported and it is unclear how parents and others thought there was a shooting, said KTNV. The Nye County Office reported its deputies observed Duane Johnson, wanted felon with a violent at Manse Elementary. When deputies attempted to apprehend him he ran into the school.

The school was placed on lockdown while deputies searched for him. that search the Nye County Of- fice received a report that there was a man with a gun at Floyd stated the agency. staff responded and cleared the school and that report was deemed center is safe at this the announcement on webpage read, posting at 10:44 a.m. Shooter report prompts lockdown ELKO HIGH SCHOOL ROYALTY were flying above us. ducking down, running low to the While some concertgoers hit the ground Sunday night, oth- ers pushed for the crowded exits, shoving through narrow gates and climbing over fences as 40- to 50-round bursts of automatic weapons fire rained down on them from the 32nd floor of the Manda- lay Bay casino hotel.

By Monday afternoon, 59 vic- tims were dead and 527 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. just know what to Akiyoshi said. heart is racing and thinking, going to The gunman, identified as Stephen Craig Paddock, a 64-year-old retired accountant from Mesquite, Nevada, killed himself before officers stormed Room 135 in the gold-colored glass skyscraper. The avid gambler who accord- ing to his brother made a small fortune investing in real estate had been staying there since Thursday and had busted out windows to create his perch roughly 500 yards from the concert grounds.

The motive for the attack re- mained a mystery, with Sheriff Joseph Lombardo saying: get into the mind of a psychopath at this Paddock had 23 guns in his hotel room, Lombardo said. Two were modified to make them fully au- tomatic, according to two U.S. of- ficials briefed by law enforcement who spoke on condition of ano- nymity because the investigation is still unfolding. At home, authorities found 19 more guns, explosives and thousands of rounds of am- munition. Also, several pounds of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer that can be turned into explosives such as those used in the 1995 Oklahoma bombing, were in his car, the sheriff said.

The FBI said it found noth- ing so far to suggest the attack was connected to international terrorism, despite a claim of re- sponsibility from the Islamic State group, which said Paddock was a who had recently con- verted to Islam. In an address to the country, President Donald Trump called the bloodbath act of pure and added: moments of tragedy and horror, America comes together as one. And it al- ways He ordered flags flown at half-staff. With hospitals jammed with victims, authorities put out a call for blood donations and set up a hotline to report missing people and speed the identification of the dead and wounded. They also opened a reunification for people to find loved ones.

More than 12 hours after the massacre, bodies covered in white sheets were still being removed from the festival grounds. The shooting began at 10:07 p.m., and the gunman appeared to fire unhindered for more than 10 minutes, according to radio traffic. Police frantically tried to locate him and determine whether the gunfire was coming from Mandalay Bay or the neigh- boring Luxor hotel. At 10:14 p.m., an officer said on his radio that he was pinned down against a wall on Las Vegas Boule- vard with 40 to 50 people. worry about the vic- an officer said at 10:15 p.m.

need to stop the shooter be- fore we have more victims. Any- body have eyes on him stop the Near the stage, Dylan Schnei- der, a country singer who per- formed earlier in the day, hud- dled with others under the VIP bleachers, where he turned to his manager and asked, what do we He said he repeated the question again and again over the next five minutes. Bodies were lying on the arti- ficial turf installed in front of the stage, and people were screaming and crying. The sound of people running on the bleachers added to the confusion, and Schneider thought the concert was being invaded with multiple shooters. one knew what to Schneider said.

literally run- ning for your life and you know what decision is the right one. But like I said, I knew we had to get out of He eventually pushed his way out of the crowd and found ref- uge in the nearby Tropicana ho- tel-casino, where he kicked in a door to an engineering room and spent hours there with others who followed him. The shooting started as Aldean closed out the three-day Route 91 Harvest Festival. He had just begun the song She Says and the first burst of nearly 50 shots crackled as he sang, tough just getting Muzzle flashes could be seen in the dark as the gunman fired away. was the craziest stuff ever seen in my entire said Kodiak Yazzie, 36.

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