but he was certainly in the room on the 32nd floor when the shooting took place. whether he checked into that room or someone else did, we don t know. sam stein, pete. is there any information about why this concert was targeted? no. why he wanted to shoot anybody, that is a question at this point. they don t know what was going through his mind. perhaps they re learning that as they go through and search his home in mesquite. this is where the fbi can really help. looking at his e-mails, social media, seeing who he was in touch with. what his travels were. it s hard to go anywhere in america and not leave a trail. that s part of the timeline they will build. who did he meet with? did he do this on his own?
the las vegas police department says that two of it on duty officers were hurt during the shooting. one had minor injuries. the other was shot, and has had surgery and is now said to be in stable condition according to police department. when they breached his room, when they blew the door off his room and went inside, they found what they describe as a cache of weapons. they say that he was heavily armed. he had several weapons in there. we have no idea how much ammunition, but you can figure just counting the shots that you hear on the videos that there were hundreds and hundreds of rounds that he fired during the short time. one question that s arisen several times is he was so far away, what s the effective range of the kind of weapon that he had? because obviously it was lethal fire power he had. our sort of back of the envelope, rough calculation here is indicating to us that he was
does anybody know? i ve asked that question here. i m sure somebody knows the answer probably in the las vegas sheriff s office, but i have not heard that answer. i asked that question, and i don t know the answer. whether they actually stopped him from shooting or whether he had decided to stop himself or run out of ammunition or a weapon jammed or what. i don t know the answer. all right. pete, we ll let you go and get back to you. thank you for joining us once again. president trump just tweeted my warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the las vegas shooting. god bless you. this is the worst mass casualty shooting in u.s. history. pulse nightclub, i believe it was 49 dead. we re looking at more than 50 people murdered here. joining us over the phone, university medical center spokeswoman. i wonder how many victims and casualties have come your way, and how you are accommodating such large numbers.
it again and they cut the music and everyone said drop and everyone dropped and everyone got up and they said run and everyone started stampeding and charging and knocking over grills, jumping over fences, getting out. we ran past tropicana, tried to run to mgm. then everyone ran out of mgm saying there was shooting. then we hid in a bush for like an hour. clip after clip after clip. bullets flying everywhere. everybody running. it was really, really bad. and you said there were multiple shots fired? we were the furthest vip stages away from mandalay bay and they were ricochetting everywhere, where we were. they were firing from somewhere high and unloading clip after clip after clip after clip. las vegas metro police say the suspect is dead. police breached his hotel room and say he has been identified and is a local resident. nbc s pete williams reporting
weapons? who was he in touch with? what were his travels? these are the open questions. just a short time since the shooting happened. a matter of a few hours, there s no idea yet of why he did this. no indication of foreign directed terrorism. and what is undoubtedly going to be the worse mass shooting in u.s. history. it s out of the normal, if you can use a term like that, but in the normal sort of range of people involved in these mass shootings, his age, 64, would make him something of an outlier. there are a lot of things that are unusual and a lot of work to be done. what have you heard so far about his companion? do they have her in custody? no. they re looking for her, we re told. her name is marilou danley. we believe she s 62 years old. they were living together in