What Happened in Vegas, The Days, Weeks, and Months After the Worst Mass Shooting in Modern American History

Document Type

Magazine

Publication Date

5-22-2018

Publication Title

The California Sunday Magazine

Volume

June 2018

Abstract

It is Monday evening, less than 24 hours after Stephen Paddock — an isolated, shadowy 64-year-old retired tax auditor and postal worker from Mesquite, Nevada, a high roller who liked to play video poker on the Las Vegas Strip — installed himself in a 32nd-floor corner suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, smashed the windows with a hammer, and opened fire into a crowd of 22,000 country music festivalgoers below. Paddock killed 58 people and injured more than 500 others, a figure that would later be revised to 851 to encompass not only victims of gunshot wounds but those injured from shrapnel, trampling, and attempts to scale barbed-wire and chain-link fences while fleeing. It was, as we would hear in the coming days, the worst mass shooting in modern American history.

Disciplines

Community Psychology | Emergency and Disaster Management | Terrorism Studies

Language

English


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