Vegas shooting incident

RocketRaccoon

Early reports coming in, no fatalities announced yet.

http://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-41466116

BillyBobBS

Police scanner suggesting many dead. Not going to be good this.

RocketRaccoon

BillyBobBS wrote: »

Police scanner suggesting many dead. Not going to be good this.

Ya, just following things on twitter. It looks and sounds awful.

James74

BBC r5 saying multiple shooter and multiple casualties being reported. Definitely not looking good.

RocketRaccoon

Police scanners saying shooters in 5 possible locations aswell as rumours of explosives in at least one hotel.

RocketRaccoon

Watching videos from the concert, the death toll from this is going to be huge I think.

BillyBobBS

Horrible stuff.

brilou23

One shooter dead in the mandalay on 32nd floor.

Kirby

Scary. I hope the death toll isn't as high as it's being reported.

This will keep happening though. You can't fill a country with guns and not expect lunacy like this to happen regularly. I'm sure somebody will be along shortly spouting crap about the second amendment but it's time to grow up frankly. Reportedly, these people fired AK-47's into the crowd. Fully automatic weapons. Crazy.

brilou23

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

Watching videos from the concert, the death toll from this is going to be huge I think.

Guy listening on police scanner said could be 60 so far

ricero

Kirby wrote: »

Scary. I hope the death toll isn't as high as it's being reported.

This will keep happening though. You can't fill a country with guns and not expect lunacy like this to happen regularly. I'm sure somebody will be along shortly spouting crap about the second amendment but it's time to grow up frankly. Reportedly, these people fired AK-47's into the crowd. Fully automatic weapons. Crazy.

I suspect like many that these nuts belong to a certain religion

RocketRaccoon

Reports on twitter (I know) announcing the name and a photo of a suspected shooter. I am not sure of the rules on this site so won't put the name here.

bilston

ricero wrote: »

Kirby wrote: »

Scary. I hope the death toll isn't as high as it's being reported.

This will keep happening though. You can't fill a country with guns and not expect lunacy like this to happen regularly. I'm sure somebody will be along shortly spouting crap about the second amendment but it's time to grow up frankly. Reportedly, these people fired AK-47's into the crowd. Fully automatic weapons. Crazy.

I suspect like many that these nuts belong to a certain religion

Bit early to say that given it's in America.

RocketRaccoon

ricero wrote: »

I suspect like many that these nuts belong to a certain religion

If the twitter reports are to be believed then no, I don't think so this time.

Jim Bob Scratcher

It's either Donald Trump supporter or a religion of peace loon

Jesus, watching a video inside a concert and listening to a fully automatic weapon just being emptied, reloaded and emptied again is terrifying. Some people on Reddit say it sounds like an M16.

In another video from inside, it sounded like at least two fully automatics at the same time.

RobertKK

I was in Laa vegas 5 weeks ago, it is shocking, so unexpected as is all of these type of events.
Horrific stuff.

NikoTopps

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Gatling

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Jesus, watching a video inside a concert and listening to a fully automatic weapon just being emptied, reloaded and emptied again is terrifying. Some people on Reddit say it sounds like an M16.

In another video from inside, it sounded like at least two fully automatics at the same time.

Sounds belt fed to me been honest very sustained fire , (could be wrong)

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RobertKK wrote: »

I was in Laa vegas 5 weeks ago, it is shocking, so unexpected as is all of these type of events.
Horrific stuff.

yeah, I was there 11 years ago.

I feel so close to this tragedy

The video of before, after, and during the shooting is absolutely terrifying.

BillyBobBS

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

It's either Donald Trump supporter or a religion of peace loon

Sure speculation but I'd say BLM or Islamic. It was a country and western festival.

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ricero wrote: »

I suspect like many that these nuts belong to a certain religion

Christian???

Jim Bob Scratcher

BillyBobBS wrote: »

Sure speculation but I'd say BLM or Islamic. It was a country and western festival.

BLM ?

Chester Copperpot

Rocco Crashing Ham wrote: »

yeah, I was there 11 years ago.

I feel so close to this tragedy

I know how you feel, I saw the hangover on TV once so this really hits home

Gatling

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

BLM ?

Black lives matter .


Not sure why though

Jim Bob Scratcher

Gatling wrote: »

Black lives matter .


Not sure why though

Cheers. I doubt it is that though

AndyBoBandy

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

BLM ?

Bohemian Liberation Magnates

oleras

Gatling wrote: »

Black lives matter .


Not sure why though

Cos we are all human beings.

Gatling

Gatling wrote: »

Black lives matter .


Not sure why though

Black people hate country music?

sundodger5

The police are currently heading intonthe mgm grand looking for a second gunman

Chancer3001

Saw videos of dozens of cop cars driving towards the scenes.

Even though it's their jobs, it takes some balls.

Multiple gunmen with sub machine guns and you drive directly towards them as fast as possible.

c_man

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

It's either Donald Trump supporter or a religion of peace loon

Or an anti-Trumper, like yer man who fired an assault rifle on those Rep politicians a few months back. Or a random nutjob like the church shooter last week. Or a person who doesn't like Mondays.

rawn

LVPD do not think there are any more shooters at this time, according to their official Twitter page.

Lackey

Eye witness on Sky news said that two people (a man and a woman) were ejected from the concert because they kept telling people around them they were all going to die.

donegaLroad

Deleted User wrote: »

Black people hate country music?

yep.. too many confederate flags at those gigs

Nabber

3 options
1. Violence influenced by video games
2. Violence influenced by Jesus
3. Violence influenced by Mohammad

Betting is now open.

sundodger5

Swat now running into the mgm

RobbingBandit

Jesus a country music open air concert very odd place for a mass shooting. Hope the fatalities are in the small numbers.

Earlier in this thread, I said it sounded like at least two automatic machine guns in the video but now the police are saying it one suspect.. Guess it was an echo but I could have sworn there were two.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Earlier in this thread, I said it sounded like at least two automatic machine guns in the video but now the police are saying it one suspect.. Guess it was an echo but I could have sworn there were two.

It's uncertain if they know anything for sure - There's reports of one of them being down, but swat police now elsewhere. Could be entirely unrelated, mind.

seamus

Deleted User wrote: »

Earlier in this thread, I said it sounded like at least two automatic machine guns in the video but now the police are saying it one suspect.. Guess it was an echo but I could have sworn there were two.

There's always tonnes of misinformation flying around during these things.

Someone hears there was a shooter at location <x>. 20 minutes later hears there's a shooting at location <y>. Puts the two together and goes on social media claiming "Multiple shooters at locations <x> & <y>".

We see continuously that during the initial stages of these things that the number of people involved and the scale of the destruction is usually overstated by around double.

conorhal

Deleted User wrote: »

Earlier in this thread, I said it sounded like at least two automatic machine guns in the video but now the police are saying it one suspect.. Guess it was an echo but I could have sworn there were two.

It's always the same with these breaking stories, wittnesses give conflicting accounts in the panic and one person turns into five, reports come in of bombs that turn out to be car backfires and false alerts spread like wildfire.
Invariably it's a minimum of 24 hours before the facts start to emerge so it's not really worth considering reports in breaking news as anything but wild speculation, 90% of which will turn out to be false.

Captain Obvious

The video was pretty intense. Sounded like someone with an automatic using three whole clips in quick succession.

Discodog

20 dead, 100 injured Sky News

seamus

seamus wrote: »

There's always tonnes of misinformation flying around during these things.

Someone hears there was a shooter at location <x>. 20 minutes later hears there's a shooting at location <y>. Puts the two together and goes on social media claiming "Multiple shooters at locations <x> & <y>".

We see continuously that during the initial stages of these things that the number of people involved and the scale of the destruction is usually overstated by around double.

conorhal wrote: »

It's always the same with these breaking stories, wittnesses give conflicting accounts in the panic and one person turns into five, reports come in of bombs that turn out to be car backfires and false alerts spread like wildfire.
Invariably it's a minimum of 24 hours before the facts start to emerge so it's not really worth considering reports in breaking news as anything but wild speculation, 90% of which will turn out to be false.

I'm talking about a video I watched from during it.

It quite clearly sounded like two guns at the same time but I must have been wrong.

SPDUB

Over 20 dead shooter was a local according to police

elefant

'The suspect shooter is dead but his companion Marylou Danley is still at large, according to Joseph Lombardo, the sheriff of the Las Vegas Metropolitan police department.

Lombardo would not give a name for the dead shooter but confirmed he open fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.'

From the Guardian's updates.

chupacabra

The sound of the gunfire in those videos is intense. Prolonged, automatic, powerful gunfire. Considering this was at a large festival I imagine casualties will be very high. Sherrif just announced 20+ dead

fryup

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Jesus a country music open air concert very odd place for a mass shooting. Hope the fatalities are in the small numbers.

is it? concerts of all types are the targets for nutjobs everywhere now

elefant

elefant wrote: »

'The suspect shooter is dead but his companion Marylou Danley is still at large, according to Joseph Lombardo, the sheriff of the Las Vegas Metropolitan police department.

Lombardo would not give a name for the dead shooter but confirmed he open fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.'

From the Guardian's updates.

Jesus. So they went into the hotel and opened fire from the windows?