LOS ANGELES – At least two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department employees and three Los Angeles County Fire Department employees were among those injured Sunday in a massacre at the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival on the Las Vegas Strip, the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
A gunman perched on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino unleashed hails of bullets on fans watching the festival as headliner Jason Aldean performed.
Law enforcement officials in Las Vegas said Monday morning at least 59 people were killed and 527 were wounded by the lone gunman, who was identified as 64-year- old Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nevada.
An FBI official in Las Vegas said Paddock did not appear to have any connection to terrorism, despite a reported claim of responsibility by the terrorist group ISIS.
Paddock’s ex-wife lives in Cerritos, and she apparently called the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department after news of the shooting broke. The woman, who isn’t speaking publicly, told deputies she was married to Paddock for six years, but they’ve been divorced for more than two decades, sheriff’s officials told reporters at the scene.
One Los Angeles County sheriff’s employee was shot during the melee and was listed in critical condition Monday, while a second was displaying stable vital signs, authorities said.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said the critically injured deputy is assigned to the Norwalk station. The other wounded person is a male sergeant who is assigned to the “executive offices,” and he was awaiting surgery as of late Monday morning. Their names were not released.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department announced that three of its members were struck by gunfire and sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
With initial reports of multiple shooters in numerous locations in Las Vegas, McDonnell activated the Department Operations Center shortly after the shooting was reported and readied a response team that included SWAT teams and a bomb squad, the Sheriff’s Information Bureau reported.
Additionally, a Super Puma helicopter was prepared for deployment, but the crew stood down after the Las Vegas Metro SWAT team determined that a single shooter was involved.
Authorities said Paddock killed himself.
“What we’ve done is we’ve stepped up our level of vigilance throughout the county — all of our venues where we have large crowds of people coming together,” McDonnell said.
“Certainly a higher visibility of our folks; a greater level of interaction with the public. We will continue to do that at all of the venues that draw large crowds, as well critical infrastructure sites, such as our transit system, at the port system and at other places,” McDonnell added.
A Los Angeles Police Department officer assigned to the Foothill Division was shot in the leg in the mass-shooting, said Officer Rosario Herrera of the LAPD’s Media Relations Section.
At least seven off-duty LAFD employees were at the concert, and two of them were wounded, said LAFD Chief Ralph Terrazas.
One off-duty Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputy was wounded, as were two family members of other OCSD personnel, but none of the injuries was life-threatening, the OCSD reported.
Two Riverside County sheriff’s department employees were also injured, as was an Ontario Police Department Officer.
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Tm says
And all these conniving comments are exactly why we are all right where we are at in life, and exactly why horrible events happen in the first place, shame on all of you bastards!!!! RIP Vegas victims!!! Hopefully people come to their senses and face reality !
Eric says
Fireman are not officers
Laughing says
Many firefighters are sworn officers with command structures similar to the military and police. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefighter )
Hannah says
Nobody loves these mass murders more, than the Barack Obama crowd. Alt-left Antifa people gorge themselves beyond corpulence, stuffing their policy mouths to capacity with gun violence, like popcorn and soda pop at the Saturday matinee. No matter how much they feed themselves, they can never have enough.
Marty says
… fire concentrated upon one specific section of a festival seating concert? A country-western venue, attended predominantly by right-leaning moderates? Likelihood looms large our shooter would be an Obama-OFA Antifa operative, with a great big chip on his shoulder, and a 2nd amendment political agenda. That old goofy guy from Mesquite dundered himself into something. He was most definitely not the shooter –
Tim Scott says
There’s the right wing dingbat conspiracy theory we’ve been waiting for.
Laughing says
Literally laughing out loud!
Are you kidding me says
Really conspiracy theory. Are you people insane. Call it what you want but this [removed] is real. As outlandish as it may have sounded a couple of years ago when the idea that this crap would ever happen on US soil its happening. Maybe it was a theory then but its reality today Dick (Richard). I suggest you wake the “F” up and stop lying to yourselves. THE PEOPLE WE TRUSTED TO PROTECT US HAVE LIED TO US AND MANIPULATED US BRAIN WASHED SOME OF US AND PUT EVERY LAST ONE OF US IN EMINENT DANGER ON PURPOSE AND HAS MADE IT VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE LET ALONE ILLEGAL for us TO PROTECT OURSELVES. Everyday those “conspiracy theories” you mock are being proven truths. Everyday. you think you are such an intellect around here MrTim (Richard). I’m here to tell you your [removed] little opinions aren’t going to mean shit when your [removed] is standing in line in a fema camp awaiting a guillotine or gas chamber ride along with all the rest of the morons that can’t figure out what’s really going on.
Politically Whatever says
C’mon, open up and tell us what you really think.
Tim Scott says
LOL…okay man, whatever you say. Just keep your hands and arms inside the ride until we can get you a nice snug safety jacket.
Alexis says
Oh Marty, straight from Alex Jones’ mouth, to your mind, and out to others.
Ruby says
Denote, their desperation. Were it the case you were barking up the wrong three, you’d otherwise have been summarily dismissed, nary a word to the contrary. How you know you’re generally on the right track will be, when their first inclination is a knee-jerk, in desperation, as we watch them grope to write you off, as a headcase. The greater their desperation, the more right you were –
tarred&feathered says
I was gonna say that, too.
Alby says
Why is it that these [removed] always go for the vulnerable crowd…
Alexis says
More to this story.
Michelle says
The government boys, spoon feeding our infantile mainstream media, we are not getting the straight scoop on this thing. We’ll never know what really happened.
Tim Scott says
Or is this the right wing dingbat conspiracy theory we’ve been waiting for? So much to choose from!
Erased From History says
LOL
ANON says
Rumor has it that a teacher from the AV school district has lost her life as well. if this is true, my deepest condolences go out to her family… and everyone touched by this event.
Tim Scott says
So, was the shooter a typical Islamic terrorist, a typical leftist terrorist, or a white conservative gun rights devotee that went crazy and is in no way typical of his fellows?
Laughing says
All the above fit in this envelope nicely… A Cookoo went nuts.
No religion, no skin tone, no political leanings. Just a cookoo going nuts.
Tim Scott says
You may have missed my point there, but that’s okay. It was perhaps not the ideal time for that particular point anyway.
Shane Falco says
The shooter doesn’t seem to have any religious or political affiliation.
Seems like he was into heavy gambling debt.
I know those wounded from our department and they are great people some of whom were helping the injured.
Tim just simply sits behind the keyboard and stays an impotent spewer of untrue vile. Way to represent east palmdale!
Tim Scott says
Could be worse Foolco, I could be down in Santa Clarita smoking a dubey.
Not Republican/Racist AKA Nothing of Interest says
‘impotent spewer of untrue vile’. Hmmm…..That’s good, I like it, but it’s too long for a screen name, huh?
William says
‘impotent spewer of untrue vile’
I think I heard Frasier say that exact same thing in a rerun.
Things just never turn out well for Frasier in every episode.
Falco reminds one of a Frasier type character heading for a pratfall.
That reply musta really caused Tim Scott to cry…………………………………………from laughing.
Tim Scott says
I’m surprised that both of you quoted “spewer of untrue vile” without pointing out that there is such a complete failure of basic grammar that it doesn’t even make sense. We know since it is Foolco attacking me, as usual, that we shouldn’t really expect it to make sense, but still.
Alexis says
Those poor souls. So many affected by the evil that one man can do. The family members, friends, and all of those suffering that have a lifetime of physical and spiritual wounds.
Not Republican or Racist AKA Nothing of Interest says
Wow….. are you right. Almost 600 dead or injured = thousands, maybe tens of thousands affected. Relatives. Friends. Co-workers. Fiances.
Additionally PTSD, loss of innocence, loss of sense of security, fear of gatherings/people, etc.
So sorry. Despicable!