Nearly two weeks after the shooting in Las Vegas, investigators have found few clues to explain why Stephen Paddock amassed an arsenal of assault-style weapons and turned them on concertgoers at acountry music festival. FBI profilers are trying to construct a psychological makeup of Paddock, which probably includes the family history of mental illness. Read more
Mandalay Bay hotel officials didn’t notify police about a shooting in a hallway inside the high-rise until after Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd at a country music festival outside, a federal official told The Associated Press today. Read more
In Las Vegas, Stacee Etcheber was just one in a crowd, part of a list. But she and her family were all anyone talked or thought about back in Novato, Calif. There were beautiful and crushingly sad Facebook posts in her honor, the kind you see after every tragedy — except these were written by people I knew well. Read more
A maintenance worker said today he told hotel dispatchers to call police and report a gunman had opened fire with a rifle inside Mandalay Bay before the shooter began firing. Read more
A day after authorities revised the timeline of events on the night of the Las Vegas mass shooting, the hotel where the gunman was staying is casting doubt on the changes. Read more
The revised timeline given by investigators for the Las Vegas massacre raises questions about whether better communication might have allowed police to respond more quickly and take out the gunman before he could kill and wound so many people. Read more
More than a week after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history investigators are stumped about the key question: What led a 64-year-old high-stakes gambler to kill 58 people and wound hundreds of others at a country music concert? Read more
Law enforcement authorities today made a significant change to the timeline of the Las Vegas mass shooting, saying the gunman shot a hotel security guard before he opened fire on concert-goers. Read more
Federal investigators returned to search the home of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock today, while the officers who raided his hotel room door the night of the shooting gave a harrowing account of a barricaded door they had to bust through and the booby-traps they feared they’d find. Read more
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The abandoned baby strollers, shoes, phones, backpacks and purses strewn for days across the huge crime scene of the Las Vegas massacre were slowly being returned to their owners Sunday to become sad souvenirs of a horrific night. Read more
The mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas has rocked the tight-knit community of country musicians. But even in the renewed debate about gun control, many of those musicians have not weighed in. Read more
Last weekend’s mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest concert being staged on the Strip led to much disarray in Las Vegas, but things are beginning to get back to normal. Read more
“Saturday Night Live” has paid tribute to victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting and the late rock superstar Tom Petty by opening its show with country star Jason Aldean singing one of Petty’s songs. Read more
Vice President Mike Pence praised the heroic response by police and the resolve of the American people at a prayer service today in Las Vegas before organizers released 58 white doves in memory of each victim killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Read more
At the main entrance of last weekend’s country music festival, Darla Christensen was checking concertgoers’ bags and boots for alcohol and contraband and was inspecting wristbands Read more
Nearly a week after the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, federal agents today started hauling away the piles of backpacks, purses, baby strollers and lawn chairs left behind when frantic concert-goers scrambled to escape raining bullets from a gunman who was shooting from his high-rise hotel suite. Read more
After five days of scouring the life of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock and chasing 1,000 leads, investigators confessed today they still don’t know what drove him to mass murder, and they announced plans to put up billboards appealing for the public’s help. Read more
A former Hawaii-based soldier has been identified as the man shown in a widely distributed photograph heroically shielding a woman from gunfire in Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas. Read more
Investigators are looking into whether gunman Stephen Paddock scoped out bigger music festivals in Las Vegas and Chicago — and perhaps Boston’s Fenway Park — before setting up his perch in a casino hotel and raining deadly fire on country music fans. Read more
One volunteer from Oahu has been deployed to Las Vegas to provide assistance in health services, according to a press release issued Wednesday by the American Red Cross of Hawaii. Read more
The National Rifle Association announced its support today for regulating “bump stocks,” devices that can effectively convert semi-automatic rifles into fully automated weapons and that were apparently used in the Las Vegas massacre to lethal effect. Read more
