Sources: Express
Amidst the third anniversary of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department backtracks on an earlier decision and has included, in the official death toll, two women who died from gunshot wound complications over the past year, thereby increasing it from 58 to 60. 2020-10-1
A United States court approves an $800 million settlement for the victims and relatives of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. 2020-09-30
The U.S. Department of Justice issues a final regulation banning the use of bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic rifles to be fired at a rate similar to that of automatic weapons and became infamous following the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. It is scheduled to go into effect on March 21, 2019. 2018-12-18
Police in Reno, Nevada, kill a man after he held a hostage and opened fire from the eighth floor of a luxury high-rise condominium, in a scenario similar to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting two months earlier. No one was injured. 2017-11-28
Monday, October 2, the day following the shooting, is now the saddest officially recorded day on Twitter, according to the Hedonometer, which has been measuring happiness since 2008. The increased use of negative words such as "shooting" and "gun" after the shooting resulted in a score of 5.77 on the 9-point scale, where one indicates pure sadness and nine indicates pure happiness. 2017-10-4
Authorities name the shooter, who killed himself before police arrived at his room in the Mandalay Bay casino and hotel, as 64-year-old Nevada resident Stephen Paddock. Police find 23 guns in Paddock's hotel room, and 19 more at his Mesquite, Nevada, home. 2017-10-2
The attack is the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history. 2017-10-2
Without providing evidence, ISIL claims responsibility for the attack. U.S. law enforcement say they have found no evidence linking the perpetrator with international terrorist groups. 2017-10-2
The death toll rises to at least 59 people with an additional 527 others injured. 2017-10-2
A gunman opens fire in Paradise, Nevada, at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino from the upper floors down upon a Jason Aldean outdoor concert, with at least 59 people dead and 527 others injured. Authorities believe the lone gunman is dead. 2017-10-1