Posted October 5, 2017 9:30 am by Comments

By Brian Seay

Country music star Jason Aldean was finishing up a song as the first shots rang out Sunday night at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas.
In the 20 or so seconds between songs, the gunman held his fire. As Aldean started another tune, the shooter unloaded a barrage of uninterrupted gunfire. The music stopped, and Aldean ran off stage. It was just after 10 p.m.
“We’ve got shots fired … at the Route 91. Sounded like an automatic firearm,” yelled an officer in to his radio at 10:08 p.m. “It’s coming from upstairs! From the Mandalay Bay. Upstairs at Mandalay Bay. Halfway up, I see the shots coming from Mandalay Bay — halfway up,” he yelled a minute later.
For about the next 10 minutes, the gunman rained down hundreds of rounds from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. Several officers got on their radios and reported what they were seeing, as police scrambled to find the source of the gunfire.
“Just advising, there are people down on stage left,” an officer can be heard saying around 10:10 p.m. “Shots fired from Mandalay Bay. There’s many people down stage left.”
But there was still confusion about where exactly the

Source: Guns.com

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