LAS VEGAS — The gunman who killed dozens of people at a Las Vegas concert last month fired more than 1,100 rounds, the city’s top lawman said.
The newly released estimate from Sheriff Joe Lombardo offers more detail about the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Lombardo told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he was aware of the previously unreported figure because his department’s forensics lab is working with the FBI to process all ballistics evidence.
Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and injured hundreds more Oct. 1 after he shattered windows of his suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino and unleashed withering gunfire at the music festival below before killing himself.
Authorities have said they have not determined Paddock’s motive or why he stopped shooting. Lombardo said authorities found about 4,000 unused rounds in the suite.