This is the moment police closed in on the Las Vegas shooter and blew off the door to his hotel room after he opened fire on country music festival revelers, killing 50 and injuring more than 400.
Police identified the shooter as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, described as a local man, who opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas Village from a room across the street in the Mandalay Bay Hotel shortly after 10pm on Sunday.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said they breached the hotel room on the 32nd floor and found him dead inside among an ‘arsenal’ of weapons.
Moments before SWAT teams closed in on Paddock, officers could be heard on an audio recording warning others to get back in the hallway on the 32nd floor so they could breach his room.
‘We have sight on the suspect’s door. I need everyone in the hallway to be aware of it and get back,’ a SWAT member told a dispatcher.
‘We need to pop this and see if we get any further response from this guy to see if he’s in here or actually moved somewhere else.’
The dispatcher can then be heard relaying the information to other nearby officers.
‘All units on the 32nd floor, SWAT has exposed a breach, everyone in the hallway needs to move back, all units move back,’ she said.
Seconds later, an officer could be heard saying: ‘Breach, breach, breach’ as the SWAT team blew off the door to his room.
Officers say Paddock was dead in the hotel room when they stormed in.
Las Vegas undersheriff Kevin McMahill told CNN that at least eight guns, including rifles, were found in the hotel room.
Officers are seen outside the Mandalay Bay hotel where the shooter was holed up in a room on the 32nd floor
People carry an injured person from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gunshots rang out on Sunday night
Police on guard on the streets outside the Mandalay Bay. The shooter was killed inside the hotel
The 64-year-old was from Mesquite, Nevada.
Investigators raided the Mesquite home he shared with Marilou Danley, described as his ‘companion’. Police questioned Danley Monday morning but revealed she was not involved in the deadly shooting.
Police say investigations are still ongoing and police have not yet determined Paddock’s motive.
President Donald Trump paid his respects on Monday morning after the shooting, writing on Twitter: ‘My warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible Las Vegas shooting. God bless you!’
People scramble over barriers to get to safety as the gunfire rages on at the Las Vegas event
This was the scene at the music festival before the assassin opened fire on the crowds of as many as 30,000 people
The gunman appeared to open fire on the Route 91 Harvest festival from the Mandalay Bay Casino. Unconfirmed reports were made of shots at the Bellagio. McCarran International Airport is now gradually reopening
Terrifying footage from the scene shows concert-goers reacting with confusion and then panic as the festival turned into a bloodbath around them.
Video from close to the stage shows people hitting the floor as others crawl to safety or run for their lives. Audio from further back in the crowd captured several bursts of sustained automatic gunfire.
Witnesses said ‘hundreds’ of rounds of ammunition were emptied into the crowd, with Paddock stopping several times to reload as he carried out his massacre.
Among those shot dead at the concert were two off-duty police officers. Attendees said a large number of law enforcement and military personnel had been attending the show.
Two on-duty police officers who engaged the shooter have been hospitalized – one in critical condition, the other less-severely wounded.