Police said they located a woman who may have been Las Vegas shooting suspect Stephen Paddock's roommate.
The woman has been identified as Marilou Danley, 62. She is in police custody. Police said she was living with 64-year-old Paddock in Mesquite, Nev., which is about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
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The Clark County Sheriff said at the time of the shooting Danley was not in the country.
Marilou Danley is being sought for questioning re the investigation into the active shooter incident. If seen please call 9-1-1! pic.twitter.com/Z83XvcHejH
— LVMPD (@LVMPD) October 2, 2017
We have located the vehicles in question, and we are confident we have located the female person of interest.
— LVMPD (@LVMPD) October 2, 2017
The Clark County Sheriff said more than 50 people are dead and another 200-plus are injured after the gunman opened fire on a crowd Sunday night during the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Those numbers later increased to 58 people dead and 515 injured. The festival was taking place along the Las Vegas strip across from the Mandalay Bay hotel.
This is the deadliest mass shooting in United States history, surpassing the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting which killed 49 people.
For families looking to locate missing loved ones, please call 1-866-535-5654.
— LVMPD (@LVMPD) October 2, 2017
NBC News reports Paddock held a pilot's license which he last filed for in 2010 when he lived in Texas.
Police: 22,000 were at concert; 406 taken to hospital
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said Paddock worked alone when he opened fire on the crowd of 22,000 concertgoers at about 10:08 p.m. Paddock fired from inside his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, police said.
"The victims were across the street attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival concert when bullets
rang out. LVMPD SWAT responded to the call, breached the hotel room and found the suspect
dead," a statement from police reads.
Overall, 406 people were transported to hospitals, police said.
"Among the dead is an LVMPD officer who was off-duty at the time. His name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin," a statement from police reads. "There were also two on-duty officers injured, one of whom was upgraded recently from critical to stable condition. The other sustained non-life threatening wounds."
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