Previous briefings. One thing in particular thats changed in the negative is our body count. Thats a wrong way to say this. The number of people that have died associated with this event has increased. Right now were using the number of 58. I just informed it may be 59, that an individual that just expired at sunrise hospital. In normal fashion i do not want to give you Bad Information but please do not press me on that number until we get into this investigation. The number of injured were using the number of 515. As you can tell as the hours go by that number continues to ncrease. We have not received any additional intelligence associated with the suspect. We have completed the search warrant in mesquite. I am not aware of any derogatory information we can utilize in furtherance of this investigation at this point, but we have just recovered items and it will take a little while to evaluate that information. We have learned information of additional property in northern, nevada, and
Sheriff lombardo well, good afternoon, everyone. I am sheriff lombardo for clark county. I dont have very much employer to update you with from our previous briefings. One thing in particular thats changed in the negative is our body count. Thats a wrong way to say this. The number of people that have died associated with this event has increased. Right now were using the number of 58. I just informed it may be 59, that an individual that just expired at sunrise hospital. In normal fashion i do not want to give you Bad Information but please do not press me on that number until we get into this investigation. The number of injured were using the number of 515. As you can tell as the hours go by that number continues to increase. We have not received any additional intelligence associated with the suspect. We have completed the search warrant in mesquite. I am not aware of any derogatory information we can utilize in furtherance of this investigation at this point, but we have just reco
And it is good to be with you from las vegas tonight, where we have team coverage. Were following Law Enforcement. They are about to update us on the situation after that horrific massacre here in las vegas overnight. As you can see, Law Enforcement officials there, sheriff joseph lombardo, bringing us up to speed all day long. Lets listen in. Good afternoon, everyone. Im sheriff lombardo, clark county. This will be our fourth Media Briefing since the incident took place yesterday evening. Im going to give you a short synopsis of the updates, and other individuals are going to make some comments, reference other issues. So, theres two things were attempting to achieve. One is, we have to finish processing the scenes. We have three separate scenes we are working, actually, it will be four at this point. So, we have the 32 nd floor of the mandalay bay, the event location, the house in mesquite, we have s. W. A. T. Standing by to hit a house in northern nevada. At this point, we did, in t
Festival. Now the Associated Press reports that concert goers told them they saw muzzle flashes from the upper floors of the hotel across las vegas boulevard. Here is the chaos, as described by witnesses, beginning with the Police Scanner as it unfolded. Its coming from upstairs mandalay bay. Upstairs mandalay bay, halfway up. Shots from mandalay bay. Multiple casualties. Multiple casualties. Repeated, be advised it is automatic fire, fully automatic fire from an elevated position. Take cover. Multiple from the chest, legs, arteries. South of reno. When we were there, jason aldean was performing. He was like ten minutes in. We heard what we thought were fireworks and it looked like smoke from mandalay bay. He kept performing and we heard 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 r
The News Conference with Police Authorities now beginning. Lets go to las vegas. Carlos, you ready . All right. All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Im obviously sheriff lombardo Clarke County. This will be our fourth Media Briefing since the incident took place yesterday evening. Im going to give you just a short synopsis of our updates and then we have other individuals here standing behind me that are going to make some comments, reference, other issues associated with todays events. So theres two things were attempting to achieve. One is we have to finish processing the scenes. We have three separate scenes we are working now, actually it will be four at this point. So we have the 32nd floor, the room at the mandalay bay, we have the efvent location, the house in mesquite and now we have s. W. A. T. Standing by getting ready to hit the house in northern nevada. At this point we did in the last briefing i was unable to tell you what we retrieved from the house in mesquite. We retrie