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Paddock said Fudenberg told him Wednesday that he would not ship his brother’s ashes directly to him, so Paddock is coming to Las Vegas to get them.

“The coroner seems to think that there has to be some chain of custody because of the criminal investigation,” Paddock said. “But his remains have nothing to do with the investigation.”

Fudenberg told Paddock that he would try to ship the ashes to the Orlando Police Department and then have the department deliver the remains to him, Paddock said.

But that did not sit well with Paddock, who said he was frustrated over his discussions with the coroner and his office.

“The coroner originally told me that he had constructed a plan to have the FBI deliver the remains and this was not the truth,” Paddock said. “He told me he was going to do something, but he didn’t have it in place.”

Fudenberg had sent Stephen Paddock’s brain tissue to Stanford University School of Medicine for a neuropathological examination to look for possible disorders that might explain his erratic behavior. On Oct. 1, Paddock fired into a crowd of concertgoers with high-powered rifles from his 32nd-floor Mandalay Bay hotel room, leaving 58 people dead and more than 500 others injured.

Eric Paddock said his family did not object to the Stanford examination of his brother’s brain.

Fudenberg released a statement Wednesday afternoon.


“We are working to deliver the remains in a secure manner to ensure the suspect’s next of kin receives the remains,” he said. “Due to security concerns, we will not be discussing any details related to this.

“As you know, we recently released the cause and manner of death in this case.”

In December, Fudenberg said publicly that the 64-year-old shooter, a high-rolling video poker player on the Strip, died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the mouth and ruled his death a suicide.

Police have indicated that Paddock killed himself as officers closed in on his hotel room.

Eric Paddock said the family has not received any additional information, including an autopsy report.

“I have no knowledge of the autopsy report, neither the content nor the release date,” Paddock said.

Paddock told the Review-Journal that he does not intend to keep his brother’s remains at his home in Orlando.


“I’m putting the ashes in a safe deposit box in a bank in order to make sure that there’s no hoopla around Steve’s remains,” Paddock said. “I don’t want someone to do something stupid.”

Las Vegas Mass Shooting Survivor Has Been Killed in hit-and-run

A man who survived the Oct. 1 mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas was killed last week in a hit-and-run in southern Nevada.

Roy McClellan died Nov. 17 while hitchhiking on State Route 160 in Pahrump, about 50 miles west of Las Vegas.

"I don't understand why he wasn't taken at the shooting, but a month later he was taken this way," McClellan's wife, Denise, told KSNV. "I hope my husband found peace and he's safe now."

The McClellans were attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las Vegas Strip when Stephen Paddock began shooting from his 32nd-floor suite at the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel-casino. In all, 58 people were killed and more than 500 were injured in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

Denise McClellan told KSNV that the shooting "was really messing with [Roy's] head and he was going to therapy."

On Friday, Denise posted on Facebook that Roy had "stormed off" after a fight with a friend the night before he died.

KSNV reported that investigators had located the car believed to be involved in the accident and charges were pending.

A GoFundMe to support McClellan's family had raised $1,640 as of Saturday evening.

Las Vegas Shooting Key Witness (Jesus Campos) Disappeared Without A Trace

Jesus Campos, the Mandalay Bay security guard who witnessed the deadly October 1 Las Vegas mass shooting that killed 59 people and left nearly 500 more injured, has seemingly disappeared without a trace. Campos was scheduled to “break his silence” about the largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history on October 12 and was lined up to engage in a series of primetime television interviews that evening. Before appearing in front of the camera, however, Fox News reports that Jesus Campos simply took off. The security guard made famous by the Las Vegas mass shooting reportedly hasn’t been seen or heard from since.





According to union president David Hickey of the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA), Jesus Campos bailed on his high-profile television interviews to go instead to a local walk-in health clinic. Hickey made the claim on Friday, the day after Campos’ failed television events. The union president claimed that he had received a text message on Thursday night advising him that Jesus Campos was being taken to a UMC Quick Care facility. He didn’t, however, state who had sent him the text message or give the name of whoever was supposed to be taking Campos to the medical facility.

On Monday, Fox News reportedly contacted UMC Quick Care, a chain of urgent-care facilities with eight clinics in the Las Vegas area. According to the news outlet, a spokesperson for UMC claimed to have “heard nothing” about a visit by Jesus Campos.

Las Vegas Shooting Survivor takes first steps since emerging from coma

A 27-year-old Maryland native who was shot in the head during the Las Vegas shooting has emerged from a coma and taken her first steps since the attack.

Tina Frost was shot in the head by Stephen Paddock on Oct. 1, who killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more. The bullet passed through Frost's right eye and shattered the front of her skull and forehead. She underwent surgery for three hours at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center on the night of the shooting, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.

At first, Frost was unable to move her extremities. But she began waking up and took her first steps without assistance on Friday, according to an update from her mother Mary Watson Moreland on a GoFundMe page collecting donations for Tina's medical expenses. Her mother also says that Tina managed to breathe on her own for six hours.

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"We are so proud of our Tina, and everyone is amazed at every single movement she makes," Moreland said.

In other milestones, Frost managed to opened her left eye, tapped her feet when music was played and gave a thumbs up when asked.

Moreland took to Facebook this week to thank the community for their support. "Thank you to everyone for your continued love and support! We'll keep posting updates every few days as we can! Please keep Tina in your thoughts and prayers," she wrote.

Moreland told Review-Journal that her daughter will "have pieces of the bullet in her brain forever."

Dr. Keith Blum told the Review-Journal that he delicately worked to remove as many of the bullet fragments and shrapnel as he could, and said he was forced to remove her damaged right eye.

Frost graduated from Arundel High School in Gambrills, Maryland, in 2008. She drove from San Diego with her boyfriend to attend the Route 91 Harvest Festival on Oct. 1, CBS affiliate WUSA-TV reports.

Her GoFundMe has raised more than $500,000. The page says doctors are discussing what options the family has and what specialists they should seek in the 27-year-old's long road to recovery.

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Families Of Las Vegas Shooting Victims are Making Moves To Freeze Stephen Paddock's Assets

Stephen Paddock was a self-made millionaire from his business ventures and his high-stakes gambling. The first Las Vegas shooting victim’s family to make a move on his assets has emerged and filed a petition in Clark County District Court to have his estate frozen.

If the family’s request is granted, this will block any possible heirs, such as Paddock’s girlfriend Marilou Danley and his brother Eric Paddock, from transferring money from his estate. This would leave his assets intact for the victims’ families to file lawsuits if they so choose to do so. The family of a California man killed in the Las Vegas shooting was the first to come forth and petition the court.

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The victim, John Phippen, 56, was in the crowd with his adult son when bullets rained down on the crowd. John Phippen was shot and killed during Paddock’s reign of carnage at the Las Vegas concert. He was a father of six who hailed from Santa Clarita, California. His son, Travis Phippen, was injured in the concert shooting, according to ABC News.

The petition asked the judge to appoint Clark County Public Administrator John Cahill to oversee the estate of Paddock so the family of John Phippen, along with other victims’ families who “suffered loss, distress, and injuries,” could pursue lawsuits against Paddock’s estate if they so choose. The petition also requests that the judge allow Cahill to take possession of the assets for “safe keeping.”

This move was orchestrated by the California law firm of Owen, Patterson & Owen. Attorney Robert Patterson of the firm said this petition to freeze Paddock’s assets “is to the benefit of everyone.” He also said that “it will preserve the asset subject to the court’s direction and future distribution.”

According to the Daily Mail, Paddock had sent his girlfriend money, $100,000, while in the Philippines. This brought up suggestions that Paddock knew his assets would be frozen after he pulled off his disturbing plans. Some believed this was his way of making sure his girlfriend would not be left penniless. Although, Paddock’s brother Eric, who spoke with reporters, did say that $100,000 wasn’t a lot of money for someone who had amassed a fortune the size of his brother’s. “We’re wealthy people, $100k isn’t that much money,” Paddock’s brother told reporters, according to Mass Live.

FBI POSTED A BILLBOARD IN LAS VEGAS ASKING FOR HELP IN DECODING SHOOTER'S MOTIVE

It has been almost a week since Stephen Paddock terrorized Las Vegas with an event of carnage never before seen in this magnitude throughout the nation’s modern-day history. Despite their massive efforts, Police are no closer today in uncovering the motive behind Paddock’s killing spree, so a shout out to to the public in the form of billboards erected around Las Vegas is about to get underway.

The FBI has hopes of gathering more clues into the secret life of Stephen Paddock as they ask for the public’s help. “We still do not have a clear motive or reason why,” which is what a “frustrated Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said Friday,” according to Billboard.com. “We have looked at literally everything.”

Members of the FBI are looking for anyone who saw Paddock in the days leading up to this Las Vegas massacre, nothing is too small to report to the authorities who are trying to piece together who and what this man was all about. It is known that he frequented prostitutes while in Las Vegas and police are anxious to talk to any of the women he might have spent time with before this shooting.

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As Billboard.com suggests, tourists will soon see “grim reminders” of the carnage that took place in Las Vegas when coming into town. So far the authorities have chased down more than 1,000 leads and they’ve looked at anything pertaining to Stephen Paddock including his finances and social behavior.

“We have been down each and every one of these paths,” McMahill said. “We all want answers.” The billboards will soon be present around every corner, but for now, the FBI asks that anyone with any information to please call 1-800-CALL-FBI.

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Aaron Rouse, who is the FBI agent in charge of the Las Vegas office asks, “If you know something, say something.” He also said, “We will not stop until we have the truth.” Authorities have questioned various call girls in the city and they’ve investigated several cruises that Paddock took over the past few years, including one to the Middle East.

According to the New York Times, law enforcement is now confident that Paddock acted on his own. McMahill said, “There are voluminous amounts of video from many different locations” in the hotel. We have reviewed it, and we have not located any other person that we believe to be a suspect at this point.”

The coroner’s office in Las Vegas completed daunting task of identifying the victims of the Las Vegas shooter. The victims of this massacre where 36 women and 22 men, who range in age from 20 to 67. These were the people who were fatally shot during the Las Vegas shooting last weekend.

Despite the amount of time and planning that went into this horrific event on the part of Paddock, there are still very few clues to go on as to what put him in the frame of mind to embark on such an event. This is one of the most baffling aspects of this case. Law enforcement and people everywhere want to know why this happened.

McMahill also noted that after five days, it is unusual to have so few clues in comparison to similar crimes. McMahill also said with the mass killings or terrorist attacks that they’ve seen in the past, the killers have left notes. They’ve at least had some sort of social media postings and information on their computer. Some have even phoned the police but this is not the case with Paddock.

Erroll Southers, director of homegrown violent extremism studies at the University of Southern California, suggests that “The lack of a social media footprint is likely intentional.” Paddock’s planning in this shooting seemed to have left no stone unturned when it came down to every last detail.

‘RAIN MAN-LIKE’ CRYPTIC NOTE BY STEPHEN PADDOCK FOR LAS VEGAS SHOOTING DECODED

The Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock left a mystery in his wake and part of that mystery includes a cryptic note found on a table in his hotel room that contains nothing but numbers. Today that note is one piece of this disturbing mystery that has been solved, with investigators discovering it was penned by Paddock with hopes of maximizing his death toll in this event.

Stephen Paddock was a man of mystery with a “secret life” and a mind full of violence, which he turned into carnage by leaving his mark in history as the orchestrator of the nation’s worst mass killing. The man has left more questions than answers after embarking on an act so disturbing the average person finds it impossible to fathom. When police made their entrance into Paddock’s room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, what they found was mind-boggling.

Paddock left evidence of a very calculated and planned-out shooting, one that would eventually claim almost 60 lives, injure nearly 500 others, and spawn grief and fear throughout the nation. On Sunday morning, Fox & Friends Weekend described the numeric note that Paddock left behind in his hotel room as “Rain Man-like” calculations.

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This note took everything into consideration from where he was standing in that hotel room to the exact distance he was from the crowd below him. According to CNN, this note contained the “calculations pertaining”to the trajectory and distance from his hotel window to the crowd below.

The note containing the handwritten calculations was a mystery at first, but upon analysis, it was discovered that these numbers “meticulously map out” an attack. It basically calculated where Paddock should aim his high-powered rifles to gain the most carnage in this attack. A “mathematical calculation so the killer could murder as many people as possible,” reported Fox on Sunday morning.

The Daily Mail reports that police believe Paddock practiced shooting in the days leading up to the Las Vegas massacre. Clips pulled from surveillance cameras around Vegas show footage of Paddock driving towards a secluded area that is known as a “shooting area.”

It has been almost a week since the massacre in Las Vegas, and what makes this mass shooting so different from all the rest, besides the horrific death toll and injuries amassed, is a complete lack of motive. Paddock doesn’t fit the typical profile of a mass shooter, in many aspects starting with his age of 64.

Paddock’s station in life as a very wealthy man is also out of the realm of a typical profile of a shooter, reports ABC News. He had a girlfriend who said she was “madly in love with him,” which also goes against the grain of what is known as typical of someone who would commit such a violent act.

Gun control Top Sunday shows after Las Vegas massacre

Gun control dominated discussions on the Sunday morning political shows nearly a week after a gunman opened fire on the crowd at a country music festival in Las Vegas, killing more than 50 people.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on NBC's "Meet the Press" called the U.S. a "gun-happy country."

"And I think there are many of us in growing numbers that don't want a gun-happy country," she said.

The California Democrat during another interview said that no law could have stopped the suspected gunman in the Las Vegas shooting.

"He passed background checks registering for handguns and other weapons on multiple occasions," Feinstein said on CBS's "Face The Nation."

Still, Feinstein has been pushing for new legislation in the wake of the mass shooting to ban "bump stocks," the devices used by the suspected gunman in the Las Vegas shooting that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly. During the CBS interview, she said there is "Republican interest" in the bill.

The California Democrat also said guns have their place, adding that she doesn't have a problem if they are used properly.

"But what I have seen over the decades is a growth of substantial improper use of weapons," she added.

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Several lawmakers have renewed their calls for legislation after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has also called for new regulations on bump stocks.

Still, some lawmakers and officials argue that gun control measures wouldn't be effective in preventing future mass shootings and continue to push for Second Amendment protections.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who is among those lawmakers pushing for a ban on bump stocks, saying Sunday he would be open to working with Republicans to advance a clean bill.

"I am willing to move forward with Republicans on banning these bump stocks," Murphy said on CNN's "State of the Union. "I think you have to walk before you run."

He added that it's an "important moment" as the National Rifle Association (NRA) is speaking out for new regulations on the devices.

"I think they see that they were likely going to lose this fight in Congress and so now they're trying to get it done through administrative action," he said.

"But this is the first time that the gun lobby has shown a willingness to come to the table."

Murphy said, however, that banning bump stocks would be a "fairly small change," and called for more legislative measures to prevent gun violence.

"If we really want to have a downward trajectory on the number of mass shootings and the number of gun deaths every single day," he said, "you've got to go far beyond just clarifying that people shouldn't have automatic weapons."

The Connecticut Democrat warned that one of the "traps" the gun lobby is setting is focusing on solutions that would have prevented the most recent mass shooting.

Even though those incidents get all of the attention, Murphy said, Americans also need to focus on the fact that the U.S. has an unparalleled level of daily gun violence.

"And we have a responsibility to address all of that as well," he said.

Republican lawmakers also appear open to new measures on bump stocks.

But they warn that many laws would not prevent mass shootings, which they say are often carried out by people who get their guns illegally.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) on Sunday rejected the notion that there are too many guns in Americans' hands, arguing that existing gun laws should be enforced.

"The problem is not that there are too many guns," Scalise, who was shot over the summer at a GOP baseball practice, said on NBC's "Meet The Press."

"It's that there are people that will go out and break the law, whether it's a gun or some other weapon or a bomb."

There's no excuse for breaking the law or for anyone using a weapon to kill innocent people, he added.

He reiterated that the vast majority of gun violence and killings in the U.S are "committed by people who broke the law to get a gun."

"But you go to a city like Chicago, some of the toughest gun laws in the country are in the city of Chicago, and yet they have the worst gun violence," he said.

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He added that there is never any focus on people who use guns to protect themselves.

Scalise also called for the enforcement of current gun laws, rather than trying to "put new laws in place that don't fix these problems."

"They only make it harder for law-abiding citizens to own a gun," he said.

When asked about the push to ban bump stocks, Scalise said he knows the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is being asked to go back and "review their 2010 decision to authorize it."

"And I think they should, and they are," he said.

His comments on bump stocks were echoed by Rep. Scott Taylor (R-Va.).

"I think that should be re-evaluated," Taylor said on ABC's "This Week."

"I'm not willing to impede on someone's rights just because of emotional rhetoric."

Still, even after the NRA last week called for new regulations on bump stocks, the group's executive director said Sunday the group is not necessarily open to banning the devices.

"We don't believe bans ever worked on anything," Chris Cox said "Fox News Sunday" when asked whether the organization would support a ban on the devices.

And the NRA's chief executive officer went after Feinstein for pushing gun control legislation.

"I think you want to tell ATF to do its job. It's an interpretive issue. And they need to get the job done," Wayne LaPierre said on CBS's "Face The Nation," when asked what Republicans supporting the NRA should do in the wake of the Las Vegas shooting.

"But not let Dianne Feinstein, which is what she wants to do, turn this all into some Christmas tree on the Hill where she brings all her anti-gun circus, she's been trying to do for years, into this."

He suggested greater gun control measures would likely not prevent people from getting their hands on guns if they wanted to commit violence.

"There's not a gang member in Chicago, who's going 'hey I'm going to get you, but first I have to go through Dianne Feinstein's background checks.' It's nonsense," he said.

Stephen Paddock Could Have Been Planning Some Other Attacks, Including Car Bombings, Official Says

The Las Vegas gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history spent decades stockpiling guns and living a “secret life” and may have planned other attacks, including a car bombing, a U.S. official said Thursday.

Clark County, Nev., Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said Wednesday that it was only logical to “make the assumption” that Stephen Paddock had “some help at some point” in pulling off Sunday's massacre.

As evidence, Lombardo pointed to gunman Paddock’s huge arsenal, explosive materials found in his car and his meticulous planning.

“What we know is Stephen Paddock is a man who spent decades acquiring weapons and ammo and living a secret life, much of which will never be fully understood,” the sheriff said.

People hold candles and flashlights into the air during a memorial for Rachael Parker and Sandy Casey, Manhattan Beach city employees and victims of the October 1st Las Vegas Route 91 music festival mass shooting, in Manhattan Beach, California, U.S., October 4, 2017. (REUTERS/Patrick T. Fallon)

Authorities also revealed that they believe Paddock had an escape plan, even though he turned the gun on himself as police closed in on his luxury suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. Paddock killed 58 people and injured hundreds in the attack as he fired from his room on the 32nd floor.

Authorities are still searching for a motive.

"Anything that would indicate this individual’s trigger point, that would cause him to do such harm, we haven’t understood it yet," Lombardo told reporters Wednesday. "Don't you think the concealment of his history of his life was well thought out?"

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Analyzing Paddock's computer, cellphone and other electronic devices, investigators have found no obvious ideological motive, no clear connection to extremists or activist groups or outward display of mental illness, the Associated Press reported.

An Australian man who claimed he met Paddock several times in the Philippines said the shooter was “extremely intelligent, methodical, conservative -- guarded -- and strategic. A planning, thinking type of guy.”

The man, who spoke to The Guardian on condition of anonymity from his Brisbane home, said the encounters came through their respective girlfriends, both Philippine-born sisters, who had family reunions.

He said he and Paddock had “robust” discussions about American gun laws and said Paddock mentioned a “gun room” during one stay in his home in Mesquite, Nev.

“His comments were that it’s a substantial hobby that needs to be protected: ‘a gun room’,” the man told The Guardian.

The materials found in Paddock's car -- 1,600 rounds of ammunition, fertilizer that could be used to make explosives and 50 pounds of the explosive substance Tannerite -- may have led authorities to believe the Paddock was possibly planning a car bombing.

Authorities also revealed that the weekend before the shooting, Paddock had rented a high-rise condo in a building that overlooked the Life is Beautiful alternative music festival featuring Chance the Rapper, Muse, Lorde and Blink-182. Lombardo offered no other details on what led Paddock there.

Paddock also rented a room in August at Chicago's downtown Blackstone Hotel, but never checked in. The hotel overlooks Grant Park where the Lollapalooza festival is held each year with hundreds of thousands of people in attendance.

People gather at a makeshift memorial in the middle of Las Vegas Boulevard following the mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., October 4, 2017. (REUTERS/Chris Wattie)

Eric Paddock called his 64-year-old brother a "private guy." As for what triggered the massacre, Eric Paddock said, "Something happened that drove him into the pit of hell."

Marilou Danley, Paddock's girlfriend, returned to the U.S. from the Philippines on Tuesday and was interviewed Wednesday by FBI agents in Los Angeles.

The 62-year-old said in a statement read by her lawyer that Paddock had sent her to see family in her native Philippines weeks earlier, and she was still overseas at the time of the attack. She said he wired her money so she could buy a house for her family, and she was initially pleased but later feared it was a way to break up with her.

Paddock led such a low-key, private life that no one seemed to know him well, and those who did had no sense he was capable of the violence.

Where other mass killers have left behind a trail of plain-sight clues that help investigators quickly understand what drove them to violence, Paddock had nearly no close friends, social media presence or other clear connections to the broader world.

Even the No. 2 official in the FBI said Wednesday he was surprised investigators have not uncovered more about why a man with no obvious criminal record would cause so much bloodshed.

"There's all kinds of things that surprise us in each one of these events. That's the one in this one, and we are not there yet," FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said. "We have a lot of work to do."

They wonder if he had some sort of mental break at the time that drove him to start making plans for mass murder.

Authorities were looking for hints in the details of the kind of life he lived, and the kind of victims and venue he targeted, said David Gomez, a former FBI national security and criminal profiler.

"We may never know to 100 percent certainty," he said. "But they will find out."

Vegas shooting victim Gathered strength and stood up when Trump enters hospital room

Despite being shot in a leg during Sunday night’s rampage in Las Vegas, Thomas Gunderson found the strength to stand Wednesday when President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited his hospital room.

“Hi, Thomas. How are you? No, don’t get up. Don’t get up,” Melania Trump can be heard saying in a video as Gunderson attempts to get out of bed.

The president entered the room shortly afterward and shook Gunderson’s hand.  

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“Hey, this guy looks tough to me,” the president said.

The 28-year-old from Newport Beach, California credited two off-duty female police officers with saving his life.

Gunderson later wrote in a Facebook post: “I will never lie down when the President of this great country comes to shake my hand!”

He added: “There may be plenty of issues in this country, but I will always respect my country, my president and my flag. Shot in the leg or not, I will stand to show my President the respect he deserves!”

The president and first lady flew to Las Vegas on Wednesday in the wake of the county’s deadliest mass shooting to visit with survivors, victims’ families and praise the “bravery” of first responders.

Air Force One carrying President Trump taxis on the runway past the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Oct. 4, 2017. (Associated Press)

“Words cannot describe the bravery that the whole world witnessed on Sunday night," the president said during a brief speech at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Command Center. "Americans defied death and hatred with love and with courage.”

Trump also recognized the “incredible” job that doctors and nurses did in treating hundreds of injured people after the shooting.

The president consoled the victims and reminded them that “we have a great country, and we’re there for you.”

In addition, he said he invited some patients to come to Washington to visit the White House.