what happened in las vegas 10 1

On October 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire from a room at the Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas on a crowd of 22,000 country music fans at a concert below, leaving 58 people dead and more than 800 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock, killed himself before police arrived. The shooting occurred during the Route 91 Harvest music festival. The shooting led to a state of emergency being declared in Clark County. Six years later, Las Vegas remembers the lives lost that night. The shooting is also known as "1 October" and has become a part of the citys history.