Las Vegas: 59 dead in Mandalay Bay shooting

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Skybird

4.5 minutes? Over here it was reported the firing went on for 20 minutes.

ABC and GMA said 4 and 1/2 minutes, but witnesses say 10 minutes.

The shooting started while performer Jason Aldean was onstage. Witnesses described a chaotic scene of back-to-back bullets raining down from above, lasting for up to 10 minutes.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/la...ay-bay-n806461

Fellow performer Jake Owen said he was standing about 50 feet away from Aldean when the shots started.

"It got faster and faster, almost like it was an automatic rifle," Owen said. "At that point, everyone on stage started running everywhere."

Owen dashed by victims covered in blood and eventually found shelter in his bus. The gunfire still hadn't stopped by the time he got there, he said.

"It wasn't something that was quick. It was chaos for a pure seven to 10 minutes," he said.

What I don't understand is why it took 3 hours to find out that the shooter was dead.