LAS VEGAS (AP) — A gunman perched high on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas Strip casino unleashed a shower of bullets down on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 50 people and wounding more than 200 as tens of thousands of frantic concert-goers screamed and ran for their lives, officials said Monday. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Country music star Jason Aldean was performing Sunday night at the end of the three-day Route 91 Harvest Festival when the gunman opened fire across the street from inside the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. SWAT teams quickly descended on the concert and the casino, and officers used explosives to get into the hotel room where the suspect was inside, authorities said. The gunman died at the scene and was identified by Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo as Stephen Paddock, 64. A motive was not immediately known.
Stephen Paddock
Aldean was in the middle of a song when the shots came rapidly: Pop-pop-pop-pop. Video of the shooting then showed Aldean stopping and the crowd getting quiet as if they were unsure of what had just happened. The gunman paused and then fired another volley of muzzle flashes from the gold glass casino as more victims fell to the ground while others fled in panic. Some said they hid behind concession stands and other crawled under parked cars.
Footage shows the moment the sound of gunfire stops a Las Vegas concert. There are reports of multiple injuries pic.twitter.com/y5x0bA1F8N
Kodiak Yazzie, 36, said the music stopped temporarily when the first shots began and the tune even started up again before the second round of pops sent the performers ducking for cover and fleeing the stage.
“It was the craziest stuff I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” Yazzie said. “You could hear that the noise was coming from west of us, from Mandalay Bay. You could see a flash- flash- flash- flash.”
Thousands in the crowd fled as the bullets ran rampant. Monique Dumas from British Columbia, Canada, said she was at the concert, six rows from the stage when she thought she heard a bottle breaking, and then a burst of popping sounds that may have been fireworks. She said as she made her way out, it was “organized chaos” as everyone fled. “It took four to five minutes and all that time there was gunfire.”
In addition to Paddock, police said they located a woman who may have been his roommate — Marilou Danley, 62. Lombardo said they believe this was a “lone wolf” attack.
“It’s a devastating time,” Lombardo said.
Police shut down the usually busy Las Vegas Boulevard and authorities across the state and federal ranks converged onto the scene as dozens of ambulances ferried those struck by gunfire. Nearby Interstate 15 and flights at McCarran International Airport were briefly closed. Hospital emergency rooms were jammed with victims delivered by ambulance. Others loaded the wounded into their cars and drove them to hospitals.
Jose Baggett, 31, of Las Vegas, said he and a friend were in the lobby of the Luxor hotel-casino — directly north of the festival — when people began to run, almost like in a stampede. He said people were crying and as he and his friend started walking away minutes later, they encountered police checkpoints where officers were carrying shotguns and assault rifles.
“There were armored personnel vehicles, SWAT vehicles, ambulances, and at least a half-mile of police cars,” Baggett said.
Among those killed were two off-duty police officers who were attending the concert. Two on-duty officers were wounded, including one who underwent surgery and was upgraded to stable condition early Monday, police said.
Hours after the shooting, Aldean posted on Instagram that he and his crew were safe and said the shooting was “beyond horrific.”
“It hurts my heart that this would happen to anyone who was just coming out to enjoy what should have been a fun night,” Aldean said.
President Donald Trump extended condolences to the victims and their families.
In a tweet Monday, Trump offered “My warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible Las Vegas shooting. God bless you!”
My warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible Las Vegas shooting. God bless you!
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump was “briefed on the horrific tragedy in Las Vegas.”
Sanders said that “we are monitoring the situation closely and offer our full support to state and local officials. All of those affected are in our thoughts and prayers.”
The shooting at the sold-out Route 91 Harvest festival was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Forty-nine people were killed when a gunman opened fire at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June 2016.
Active shooters at Mandalay Bay/Route 91 with automatic weapons & people down. Stay away from the Vegas strip! pic.twitter.com/81D6GEEInu
Sunday’s shooting came more than four months after a suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, that killed 22 people. Almost 90 people were killed by gunmen inspired by Islamic State at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris during a performance by Eagles of Death Metal in November 2015.
As promised OBH boss Ar-Ab delivers the second volume of his "Sturdy" mixtape series. The project features contributions from Ab, Sha Money, No Brakes Bras, Action Newz, Breeze Begets, Goonie Gang Reed, Goonie Gang Mone, Skinny Me, Yizzy Raw, Bizzy Bam and Alleyway P.
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Sturdy Series Volume 2 Tracklist:
1. Money On My Head - Sha Money ft No Brakes Bras 2. On My My Mama(I swear) - Ar-Ab 3. Want it All - Action Newz 4. Find A Way - Breeze Begets ft Goonie Gang Reed 5. Coroner - Goonie Gang Mone 6. Kilo - No Brakes Bras 7. Die Freestyle - Skinny Me 8. Money Talk - Goonie Gang Reed 9. Red Beam - Yizzy Raw 10. Reflection - Sha Money 11. Anyway - Bizzy Bam 12. Murderers - Alleyway P
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former football legend O.J. Simpson became a free man Sunday after serving nine years for a botched hotel room heist that brought the conviction and prison time he avoided after his 1995 acquittal in the killings of his ex-wife and her friend.
Simpson was released at 12:08 a.m. PDT from Lovelock Correctional Center in northern Nevada, state prisons spokeswoman Brooke Keast told The Associated Press. She said she didn’t know immediately where Simpson was headed in his first hours of freedom, adding an unidentified driver met him and took him to an undisclosed location.
“I don’t have any information on where he’s going,” said Keast, who watched Simpson in blue jeans, denim jacket and ball cap signing documents before his release. Her department released a brief video on social media of Simpson being told to “come on out” by a prison staffer. He responded “OK,” walked through an open door, and the video then cut to a nighttime street — apparently the prison exterior.
Tom Scotto, a Simpson friend who lives in Naples, Florida, said by text message that he was with Simpson after his release. Scotto didn’t respond to questions about where they were going or whether Simpson’s sister, Shirley Baker of Sacramento, California, or his daughter, Arnelle Simpson of Fresno, California, were with him.
The three had attended Simpson’s parole hearing in July at the same prison where Simpson spent his prison term and was released just minutes into the first day a parole board set for his possible release.
Simpson has said he wanted to move back to Florida, where he lived before his armed robbery conviction in Las Vegas in a September 2007 confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers. But Florida prison officials said documents weren’t filed, and the state attorney general says she doesn’t want Simpson to live in the state.
Neither Simpson’s attorney, Malcolm LaVergne in Las Vegas, nor state Parole and Probation Capt. Shawn Arruti, who has been handling Simpson’s case, immediately responded to messages.
Keast said the dead-of-night release from the prison about 90 miles (145 kilometers) east of Reno, Nevada, was conducted to avoid media attention.
“We needed to do this to ensure public safety and to avoid any possible incident,” Keast added, speaking by telephone from Lovelock.
The 70-year-old Simpson gains his freedom after being granted parole at a hearing in July. Unlike the last time he went free, 22 years ago, he will face restrictions — up to five years of parole supervision — and he’s unlikely to escape public scrutiny as the man who morphed from charismatic football hero, movie star and TV personality into suspected killer and convicted armed robber.
Simpson was looking forward to reuniting with his family, eating a steak and some seafood and moving back to Florida, LaVergne said recently. Simpson also plans to get an iPhone and get reacquainted with technology that was in its infancy when he was sent to prison in 2008, his attorney said.
The Florida Department of Corrections, however, said officials had not received a transfer request or required documents, and the attorney general said the state didn’t want him.
“The specter of his residing in comfort in Florida should not be an option,” Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement on Friday. “Our state should not become a country club for this convicted criminal.”
Simpson lost his home near Miami to foreclosure in 2012. But two of his children, Justin and Sydney, also live in Florida.
He could live at least temporarily in Las Vegas, where a friend let Simpson use his home for five weeks during his robbery trial.
His five years of parole supervision could be reduced with credits for good behavior.
It’s a new chapter for the one-time pop culture phenomenon whose fame was once again on display when the major TV networks carried his parole hearing live.
He told officials that leading a group of men into a 2007 armed confrontation was an error in judgment he would not repeat.
He told the parole board that he led a “conflict-free life,” an assertion that angered many who believe he got away with killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles in 1994. He was acquitted the following year in Los Angeles in what was dubbed the “trial of the century.”
Simpson was once an electrifying running back dubbed “Juice” who won the Heisman Trophy as the nation’s best college football player for USC in 1968 and became one of the NFL’s all-time greats with the Buffalo Bills.
Handsome and charming, he also provided commentary on “Monday Night Football,” became the face of Hertz rental-car commercials and built a movie career with roles in the “Naked Gun” comedies and other films.
Simpson fell from grace when he was arrested in the slayings, after a famous “slow-speed” Ford Bronco chase on California freeways. His subsequent trial became a live-TV sensation that fascinated viewers with its testimony about a bloody glove that didn’t fit and unleashed furious debate over race, police and celebrity justice.
A jury swiftly acquitted him, but two years later, Simpson was found liable in civil court for the killings and ordered to pay $33.5 million to survivors, including his children and Goldman’s family.
He is still on the hook for the judgment, which now amounts to about $65 million, according to a Goldman family lawyer.
On Sept. 16, 2007, he led five men he barely knew to the Palace Station casino in Las Vegas in an effort to retrieve items that Simpson insisted were stolen after his acquittal in the 1994 slayings. Two of the men with Simpson in Las Vegas carried handguns, although Simpson still insists he never knew anyone was armed. He says he only wanted to retrieve personal items, mementoes and family photos.
He went to prison in 2008, receiving a stiff sentence that his lawyers said was unfair.
If the nation’s Simpson obsession waned for a while, it resurged last year with the Emmy-winning FX miniseries, “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” and the Oscar-winning documentary “O.J.: Made in America.”
Chicago rapper G Herbo recently stopped by Shade 45's Streetsweeper Radio Show to chop it up with DJ Kay Slay about his new album, "Humble Beast," being a role model, getting out of the streets.
JAY-Z was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, September 30. He delivered dynamic performances of "Bam" featuring Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley and "4:44." Watch below.
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Fat Trel wastes no time in getting back to work after recently being released from jail. He makes it known how he feels about the police in the music video for "First Day Out (Fuck 12)."
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Here's an interesting collaboration. Lil B recruits YG for a new song titled "Young Niggaz." Give it a listen up top and let us know what you think in the comment section below.
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Curren$y a.k.a. Spitta Andretti has teamed up with producer Lex Luger for a new EP titled "The Motivational Speech." The lone feature on the 6-track project comes courtesy of OJ Da Juiceman.
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Hot Boy Turk and his wife Erica pka Emani Da Made Woman make an appearance on " Iyanla: Fix My Life." They talk about issues they would like to correct, Turk's past cocaine habit and more.
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Lord Jamar shared his thoughts on Blac Chyna settling for $20,000 a month child support payments from Rob Kardashian, and suing him for over $1 million for "revenge" photos.
The Brand Nubian rapper explained that he thinks Rob should have to pay a "sucka fee" for thinking he could use his money to get with someone like Blac Chyna and then getting finessed. Jamar added that Rob "already stepped in the bear trap" and that he had to pay fees for the damages.
To hear more of what he had to say, including a warning to Lil Yachty not to get with "platinum" girls.
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Continuing the non stop pace of releases, Bogish Brand Ent. is back with a hot new single from flagship artist Ca$his, from the upcoming Ca$his Vol. 2 release. This hot new song is aptly titled “Student of Eminem”, And that is exactly what Ca$his is, one of Eminem’s top protégés, a true student of Eminem. This song finds Ca$his deep in his element, strong vocal cadence, and a flow that is genuine and reflective but egotistical and focused. A true representation of the enigma that Ca$his is as an artist, Motivational but Gangster at the same time. Ca$his is the hustler from the block that everyone is cool with, and we all know he is heavily getting that bag, but is always low key with it. Now he has taken the knowledge learned as a student, and Ca$his is now a certified Boss. A artist who is in control of his own destiny by mastering his craft and owning his masters. Get ready for a continuous string of high quality releases from the student of Eminem, Ca$his on Bogish Brand Entertainment.
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New Jersey emcee Duffle Bag Ransom continues to promote his "Greatest Rapper Alive" album by releasing an official music video for the song "J.A.M.A.L."
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The Hustle Gang, comprised of T.I., B.o.B, London Jae, Tokyo Jetz, Translee, Yung Booke, Rara, Young Dro, Trae tha Truth, Brandon Rossi, 5ive Mics and GFMBRYYCE, will release their debut album titled "We Want Smoke" on October 13.
1. Want Smoke (feat. London Jae, Yung Booke, Dro & T.I.) 2. Friends (feat. T.I., Rara, Brandon Rossi, Tokyo Jetz, Trae tha Truth & Young Dro) 3. Game 7 (feat. T.I., Brandon Rossi & Rara) 4. That Bag (feat. Young Thug, T.I., Young Dro & Trev Case) 5. Trappin On Forgis (feat. T.I., Lex, Trae tha Truth & London Jae) 6. Go Off (feat. B.o.B, T.I., Yung Booke, Tokyo Jetz, Trae tha Truth & Young Dro) 7. So High (feat. Peanut da Don, London Jae, Young Dro & T.I.) 8. Gateway (feat. Translee, Yung Booke, Tokyo Jetz & Ink) 9. My Block (feat. T.I., London Jae, Young Dro, B.o.B & 5ive Mics) 10. Do No Wrong (feat. GFMBRYYCE, Young Dro & T.I.) 11. Still Young (feat. B.o.B, Translee & T.I.) 12. Talk My Shit (feat. Peanut da Don, Trae tha Truth & Young Dro) 13. Who Gone Check Me (feat. GFMBRYYCE, Translee, Yung Booke, Young Dro & T.I.)
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