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A “lone wolf” gunman carried out America’s deadliest mass shooting in a meticulously planned attack after waiting for three days in a hotel suite before striking at a festival crowd of 22,000.
Stephen Paddock, 64, killed at least 59 people and injured a further 527 when he fired on concert-goers from the vantage point of a 32nd-floor hotel room in Las Vegas.
Armed with as many as 23 weapons, including semi-automatic rifles, Paddock opened fire at 10.08pm on Sunday (5.08am UK time) in a shooting spree that lasted between five and 10 minutes.
As police prepared to storm his hotel room, Paddock committed suicide by turning one of the guns on himself.
With the motive still unknown, police were scouring Paddock's personal life for clues.
Joseph Lombardo, the local sheriff for Clark County, said a search of the suspect's car turned up a supply of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer compound that can be used in explosives. It was used in the 1995 truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people.
Police found another 19 firearms, some explosives and thousands of rounds of ammunition at his home in Mesquite, along with "some electronic devices that we are evaluating at this time," Mr Lombardo told reporters
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