LAS VEGAS, the United States, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provided on Wednesday night the latest update on investigation into the Las Vegas Strip mass shooting Sunday.
The death toll now stands at 59, including the suspect, with 489 injured, confirmed Joseph Lombardo, sheriff of LVMPD. A total of 317 injured victims have been discharged from local hospitals.
At a news conference Wednesday night, Lombardo released details from the investigation into the deadly mass shooting by Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old gambler and real estate investor.
Details released included an official timeline of how police responded Sunday night to the shooting spree when Paddock rained bullets from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel into a crowd of more than 22,000 people attending Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival.
The first shot was fired at 10:05 p.m. Sunday, and ended at 11:27 p.m. when the suspect was confirmed down.
It took 75 minutes to enter the shooter's suite. Police reached the 32nd floor of the hotel within 12 minutes of the first shots being fired.
No suicide note was found inside Paddock's hotel suite. Investigators recovered 1,600 rounds of ammunition and at least three hunting scopes.
Two cameras installed for surveillance were found in a room service cart outside of the hotel room, an additional camera was found on the hotel room door's peephole, and another camera was discovered in a baby monitor found in the living room of the hotel suite.
Lombardo also said none of the cameras that Paddock put up in his hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino was recording as he fired down onto the crowd.
Around 200 rounds were fired in the hotel hallway where a hotel security guard was shot. "It was miraculous the hotel security guard survived," Lombardo said.
Investigators also discovered over 50 pound explosives and 1,600 rounds of ammo inside the suspect's vehicle parked at the Mandalay Bay.
Police confirmed Paddock rented a room via Airbnb at the Ogden during the Life is Beautiful festival weekend, which took place from Sept. 22 to 24., just a week before the mass shooting.
FBI special agent Aaron Rouse and city officials joined Lombardo during a press conference at Metro PD headquarters Wednesday afternoon. "We have no one in custody. We have found no evidence to indicate this was terrorism," Rouse said.
The FBI on Wednesday turned its probe to Marilou Danley, the girlfriend of the gunman, who arrived at the Los Angeles international airport on Tuesday night.
In a statement read by her attorney outside the FBI's Los Angeles office, Danley said she was not aware that her boyfriend was planning violence against anyone.
LVMPD also released dramatic footage on Wednesday, showing officers' reactions at the frantic moments when one of their own was shot in a barrage of bullets fired by Paddock from the 32nd floor of a hotel.
The worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history was the 273rd mass shooting in the United States in the 275 days of 2017 so far, according to the non-profit organization Gun Violence Archive. Mass shootings, a nearly daily occurrence in the United States, are when four or more people are slain by gunfire in one incident, according to the group.
