LAS VEGAS — A gunman who fired upon thousands of people attending a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip has killed more than 50 people and wounded hundreds more, police say. At least one of the dead is an off-duty police officer who was attending the concert. The suspect in the case is also dead.

“The Clark County Fire Department estimated that approximately 406 people were transported to area hospitals,” the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department says.

Gunfire at the multi-day Route 91 Harvest concert was reported around 10:08 p.m. Sunday night, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said at a news briefing. He later added that the shooter, acting as a “lone wolf,” has been identified as Stephen Paddock, 64, a resident of Nevada.

It’s not known precisely how Paddock died. Police say that officers and SWAT members “breached the hotel room and found the suspect dead.”

The violence is now being called the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, and the tragic death toll seems likely to rise. The June 2016 shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., killed 49 people.

Source: NPR