How Stephen Paddock killed over 50 people in Las Vegas shooting:

A gunman, named as 64-year-old Nevada resident Stephen Paddock, opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel towards an open-air music festival attended by 22,000.

Police say he killed himself as officers stormed the room where 10 guns were found.

The attack is the worst mass shooting in recent US history.

US President Donald Trump tweeted;

 "warmest condolences and sympathies" to the victims and their families, and called the shooting "terrible".

Sheriff Joe Lombardo described the shooting as a "lone wolf" attack and there was no information about Paddock's motives.

"We have no idea what his belief system was," he said.

Suspected gunman Stephen Paddock

A woman thought to have been travelling with the gunman before the attack, Marilou Danley, has now been located outside the country, Sherriff Lombardo said.

A police statement said the shooting began at 22:08 local time on Sunday (05:08 GMT on Monday). 

Police say at least 200 people were injured. Fire officials said 406 people were taken to hospital.

This has been a mass shooting which has shocked Las Vegas - it has stunned this city. 

It is very clear that it will be an event which will stun the USA too, a country in which, regrettably, such mass shootings - even if on a lesser scale - are not uncommon.

As to why the gunman may have carried out this attack, there is no indication of motive at this stage. 

He was said to have had a large arsenal, a huge number of weapons in that hotel room, which police finally stormed using explosives.

As to why he would have set himself up there in that way, to do as he did, it is just so difficult to fathom.

Witnesses reported that hundreds of shots were fired.

Hundreds of people fled the scene and the sound of what appeared to be prolonged automatic gunfire could be heard on videos posted on social media.

Many hotels on the Las Vegas strip close to the scene remained on police lockdown and parts of Las Vegas Boulevard were shut.

I feel bad for the dead.

It could have been anyone.

Imagine minding your own business and next thing, you find yourself on the other side, never to return...
No one should die this way. No one.

May God keep us from attacks we know anything about.

Amen.

RIP.