Police are working to establish the motive behind a mass shooting which left at least 59 dead and another 527 injured at a Las Vegas concert.
Gunman Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel towards an open-air music festival on Sunday evening.
Police found 23 guns in his hotel room, as well as “in excess of” 19 firearms and explosives at his Nevada home.
But as yet, no clear reason for the killing has emerged.
His brother Eric Paddock in CNN interview still in shock on what could have transpired him to start killing.
Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said when police searched the property after the attack they found 19 “additional firearms, some explosives and several thousand rounds of ammo, along with some electronic devices we’re evaluating at this point”.Officers also found ammonium nitrate in Paddock’s car. The explosive found in his home was tannerite
“We believe Paddock is solely responsible for this heinous act,” Clark County Assistant Sheriff Todd Fasulo said in a press conference late Monday.
IS’s claim of responsibility for the Las Vegas attack is very unusual in that the perpetrator’s profile does not fit that of supporters or “soldiers” that the group has claimed in the past, writes Mina al-Lami, who monitors jihadist groups for the BBC.
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