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April 25, 2015

October 1, 2017: Las Vegas Strip Shooting

Background
  • Shooter: Stephen Paddock, born April 9th, 1953 Clinton IA. Made his money in real estate, gambled frequently. Motivation for Mass murder still unknown 1 year later.

  • 32nd floor room was used for shooting, 23 guns, thousands of rounds of ammunition. Began shooting out window of his hotel room at 10:05 PM into the festival goers, ceases fire at 10:15 pm

  • 10:17 police arrive 32 floor, begin to evacuate the floor before confronting shooter

  • 11:20 SWAT blow open the door to suite, find Paddock dead.

  • 2 hours 26 minutes from start the massacre was over

  • 22,000 attendees: 58 people killed, 850 injured at a Country Music Festival on LV Strip Route 91 Harvest Festival

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Psychological Impact

  • 800 people injured, 58 dead. 858 people directly affected by injury. Each of their families must now suffer through the trauma of their loved one being hurt, or killed.

  • 22,000 people who attended to country festival. Each one of those people is now traumatized from witnessing the carnage of a mass shooting.

  • 22,000 families of those at the concert must now deal with the trauma of their loved ones near death experience.(if each family is conservatively 5 people, that’s 110,000 family members)

  • Whole country demoralized and shocked. No rhyme or reason for attack makes trauma harder to comprehend and deal with

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