Las Vegas shooting: Gunman who killed 50 had 'at least eight guns in hotel room'!

– More than 50 people dead after shooter opens fire in Las Vegas
– Officially the deadliest mass shooting in US history
– More than 400 people are injured
– Witnesses say hundreds of shots fired into the crowd
– Off-duty police officer among the dead
– Gunman named as Stephen Paddock, 64
– Shooter killed himself before police entered hotel room
– 22,000 were at a concert near the Mandalay Bay Hotel when shooting started
– Only one suspected shooter who acted alone, say police
– Donald Trump tweets ‘warmest condolences’ to victims’ families
– Hundreds fled the scene while shots were fired

The gunman who killed 50 people and injured hundreds more in Las Vegas after opening fire on a crowd had at least eight guns in his hotel room.

The shooter, identified as 64-year-old white male Stephen Paddock, fired hundreds of shots into a crowd of music-goers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, in what is now the deadliest mass shooting in US history.

Police said he killed himself before they entered his hotel room.

Witnesses said there were about four or five minutes of gunshots. Police said 406 people were injured.

Police officers take position behind their vehicle in Las Vegas (Picture: Getty)

Police had launched a search for Marilou Danley, 62, but she is no longer a ‘person of interest’ – police believe she had no involvement in the shooting.

Police said Paddock had been staying in the room at the hotel since last Thursday, September 28.

An off-duty police officer is among the dead, said Joseph Lombardo, sheriff of the Las Vegas Metropolitan police department.

The shooting surpasses the death toll from the killings of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June 2016.

Paddock opened fire on the crowd of concert-goers from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel.

Some officers took cover behind their vehicles while others carrying assault rifles ran into the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino.

Officers shot and killed the shooter, Mr Lombardo said. He said police used a controlled explosion to get to the shooter through the door of his hotel room. When they entered the room, Paddock was already dead.

One officer who was on duty is in a critical condition and another was wounded.

Las Vegas Police said they did not believe there were any more shooters. Mr Lombardo described the shooting as a ‘lone wolf’ style attack.

Police said there were 22,000 people in the crowd at the concert when the shooting started.