02 October 2017

A world gone mad

UPDATE: Two Canadians among those murdered...
Jordan McIldoon, 23, of Maple Ridge, B.C., was among the dozens of people killed when a gunman opened fired on a large crowd near the end of an outdoor country music festival on the Vegas Strip.

The second Canadian who died in the attack is a woman from Alberta. Two Manitoba women are also in a Las Vegas hospital after being shot on Sunday night.
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KTRK) -- Already labeled as the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, police in Las Vegas said the death toll in the massacre at a music festival on the city's Strip tourist area jumped to 58 people.

The shooting also left at least 515 people injured following the chaos.
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RELATED: Who is Stephen Paddock?insert alt text here
Eric Paddock, the suspect’s brother, told CBS that his 64 year old brother, Stephen, was “not an avid gun guy at all. The fact that he had those kind of weapons is just — where the hell did he get automatic weapons?

He has no military background or anything like that. He’s a guy who lived in a house in Mesquite, drove down and gambled in Las Vegas.”