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The Basics: Las Vegas Shooting, Jason Aldean & The Route 91 Harvest Music Festival

Aldean was the headliner at the final night of the annual three-day-long country music festival that has been held on the Las Vegas Strip since 2014.
A banner for the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. A shooter killed over 50 and wounded 200 during the festival's final performance in Las Vegas. / David Becker / Getty Images

Updated, 11:42 a.m., Oct. 2 with new information on victims of the attack.


Around 10:08 p.m. Sunday, a gunman — a "lone wolf" according to Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo — of the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, killing more than 55 people and wounding more than 500, resulting in what is being referred to as the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. Lombardo said the shooter has been identified as Stephen Paddock. Here's what we know so far

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