Caren Mansholt is on her feet, clapping along with the crowd. She and more than 22,000 others are at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las Vegas Strip.
A rapid series of pops bursts through the air. Fireworks, she thinks, and she looks to the sky to see them. Nothing is there. Strange. Back to the music. Country star Jason Aldean is playing "When She Says Baby."
Then Aldean and his band rush off the stage and the crowd realizes something is terribly wrong. Some people start running for exits. Others are already hurt.
Across the street, on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, Stephen Paddock has turned a luxury suite into a sniper’s nest. He sprays off a round of bullets. Then another series of rapid fire shots. He does not stop.
This account of what happened on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday when 58 people were killed and hundreds injured is based on numerous interviews with survivors, witnesses, first responders and officials.
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