Tag: Mass Shootings

Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock aimed at aviation fuel tanks near the Route 91 Harvest festival: Report

Naomi Lim · October 5, 2017 3:04 am

"I will never lie down when the President of this great country comes to shake my hand!" Thomas Gunderson said in a Facebook post. (Credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

Las Vegas shooting victim who was shot in the leg stands to meet Trump

Diana Stancy Correll · October 5, 2017 1:46 am

The girlfriend of Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas shooter who took the lives of 59 people and injured more than 500, said it never occurred to her that "he was planning violence against anyone." (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP, File)

Las Vegas shooter’s girlfriend says she didn’t know he was ‘planning violence’

Diana Stancy Correll · October 4, 2017 11:39 pm

His live-in girlfriend arrived in the Philippines on Oct. 1st. (Courtesy of Eric Paddock via AP)

Beltway Confidential

The Daily Mail gets the scoop: Las Vegas shooter owned a gun safe

Becket Adams · October 4, 2017 10:43 pm

Trump's departure was captured in a stunning image, in which Air Force One can be seen taking off in full view of the Mandalay Bay hotel, the site where shooter Stephen Paddock took aim at concertgoers on the ground below. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Air Force One pictured flying behind Mandalay Bay windows broken in Las Vegas shooting

Naomi Lim · October 4, 2017 9:29 pm

An iPhone took a bullet for its owner, reportedly saving her life during Sunday night's mass shooting in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Woman says iPhone protected her from bullet in Las Vegas shooting

Mandy Mayfield · October 4, 2017 9:13 pm

Newsweek has retracted a story alleging that the girlfriend of the man who shot and killed 59 people this weekend at a country music festival in Las Vegas had two Social Security numbers. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP, File)

Beltway Confidential

Newsweek retracts story containing significant error about Las Vegas shooter’s girlfriend

Becket Adams · October 4, 2017 9:09 pm

"We will endure the pain together, and we will overcome this together as Americans." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump addresses ‘a nation in mourning’ in Las Vegas

Sarah Bedford · October 4, 2017 8:14 pm

This Feb. 1, 2013 photo shows a bump stock next to a disassembled .22-caliber rifle. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)

Beltway Confidential

Bump stocks no longer available online at Cabela’s after Las Vegas shooting

Philip Wegmann · October 4, 2017 4:43 pm

"It's just one of those misses in life. It could happen to any one of us." (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

National Security

Dianne Feinstein says her daughter almost attended Las Vegas country music festival

Kara Zupkus · October 4, 2017 4:36 pm

A gun store employee demonstrates how a "bump" stock works. The gunman who unleashed hundreds of rounds of gunfire on a crowd of concertgoers in Las Vegas attached what is called a "bump-stock" to two of his weapons, in effect converting semiautomatic firearms into fully automatic ones. (AP Photo/Allen Breed, File)

Democrats propose banning ‘bump stocks’ like the ones used in Las Vegas shooting

Susan Ferrechio · October 4, 2017 4:21 pm

Republicans say Second Amendment, not NRA, drives their stance on guns after Las Vegas massacre

David M. Drucker · October 4, 2017 3:52 pm