WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump delivered a brief address the nation Monday morning following the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
President Donald Trump is calling the mass shooting attack in Las Vegas "an act of pure evil."
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Trump says the nation is joined together today in sadness, shock and grief.
Trump is addressing the attack on a country music festival Sunday night that left at least 50 people dead and more than 400 injured.
Trump tweeted his "warmest condolences and sympathies" earlier Monday morning.
Las Vegas police say more than 400 people were hospitalized in a mass shooting at a country music concert.
Police said Monday morning that the shooter, 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock was found dead in a hotel room with as many as 10 firearms.
Authorities say that 406 people were taken to hospitals and 50 of those are dead, including an off-duty Las Vegas police officer. His name was not immediately released.
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo says Paddock first checked into the Mandalay Bay casino-hotel on Sept. 28 and was found dead inside a hotel room.
Two on-duty officers were also hurt. One of those has been upgraded from critical to stable condition.
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