On the night of October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock began shooting from his hotel room in the Mandalay Bay Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States at a group of concert goers across the road at the Route 91 Harvest music festival. He killed 58 people and wounded 422 before committing suicide. The panic meant that the total injured increased to 851. It was the deadliest shooting by a single gunman in the history of the United States.