LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the shooting in Las Vegas :
5:05 p.m.
Officials are still loading bodies into vans to remove them from the scene of the Las Vegas shooting that killed at least 58 people.
The work continued more than 12 hours after a gunman opened fire from the Mandalay Bay hotel into a crowd of thousands of people at a country music concert.
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo has said the hundreds of people who were wounded were taken to five southern Nevada hospitals.
Police have warned that identifying bodies from the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history will be a long, laborious process.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the shootings in Las Vegas :
3:03 p.m.
A bell tolled three times as a solemn President Donald Trump paused on the White House South Lawn for a moment of silence in honor of the victims of Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas.
Flanked by first lady Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, Trump walked out onto the lawn for the memorial moment Monday afternoon. The White House’s flag stood at half-staff overhead.
They were honoring the 58 people killed night when a gunman opened fire on a concert crowd in Las Vegas. Police say Stephen Craig Paddock was on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay casino-hotel tower Sunday night when he fired into Route 91 Harvest festival. More than 500 people were wounded.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the shooting in Las Vegas :
10:11 a.m.
Authorities say they’re no longer looking for the woman who police believe was a companion to the gunman in the Las Vegas country music festival shooting that killed at least 58 people.
Police initially said that the 62-year-old woman was shooter Stephen Craig Paddock’s roommate in Mesquite, Nevada.
Police now say they’ve located her and determined she wasn’t involved in the mass shooting, as she has been out of the country.
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo says investigators will speak with her upon her return but that they are no longer actively searching for her.
Police say Paddock was on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay casino-hotel tower Sunday night when he opened fire onto concert-goers at the Route 91 Harvest festival, wounding more than 500 others
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the shooting in Las Vegas :
9:10 a.m.
Authorities say a woman who was a companion of the Las Vegas shooter is considered a person of interest and is out of the country.
Sheriff Joe Lombardo didn’t release further details Monday about the woman but said authorities would try to speak with her when she got back to the United States.
Authorities have yet to identify a motive for the shooting that killed 58 people at an outdoor country music concert but say they believe 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock acted alone.
He killed himself after carrying out the deadliest mas shooting in U.S. history.
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The Latest: Trump offers condolences to Vegas victims
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the shooting in Las Vegas (all times local):
4:30 a.m.
President Donald Trump is extending condolences to the victims of the shooting in Las Vegas and their families.
In a tweet Monday, Trump offered “My warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible Las Vegas shooting. God bless you!”
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump was “briefed on the horrific tragedy in Las Vegas.”
Sanders said that “we are monitoring the situation closely.”
A gunman’s attack on the Sunday night country music concert killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 200.
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3:30 a.m.
A Nevada sheriff says the death toll has climbed to 50 in the attack on a Las Vegas concert Sunday, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo says more than 200 people were wounded at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival on the Strip.
Authorities have identified the suspected gunman as Nevada resident Stephen Paddock.
Lombardo says officers confronted Paddock on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino across the street from the concert. Paddock is dead.
Authorities say they have located 62-year-old Marilou Danley, who was wanted as a person of interest in this incident.
The dead gunman is also believed to have checked in as a hotel guest.
