Las Vegas shooting: Eerie footage from inside gunman's hotel room emerges

Anthony Pearce

Eerie footage has emerged from inside the hotel room used by the Las Vegas gunman from which he launched a hail of bullets in the worst mass shooting in recent American history.

The chilling video gives a glimpse into room 32-135 of the Mandalay Bay Hotel where mass murderer Stephen Paddock, 64, took 23 assault rifles before opening fire on a crowd of 22,000 people at a music festival on the ground below.

Jeff Bridges walked around the Vista Suite when he stayed at the luxury hotel with his wife for three nights between January 23 and January 26 last year.

The 47-year-old from Huntersville, North Carolina, USA, shows off the multiple seating areas, wet bar, king sized bed and a mirror with built-in TV.

A view from the window inside the hotel room
A view from the window inside the hotel room
Stephen Paddock, 64, has been named by police as the shooter (Rex)
Stephen Paddock, 64, has been named by police as the shooter (Rex)

At least 59 people were killed and 527 injured after a gunman, named by police as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, fired on concert-goers at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.

The chilling video gives an idea of the type of view Paddock would have had of the crowd from his room.

Images emerged yesterday of drapes billow out of broken windows at the Mandalay Bay hotel after police used explosives to blast open the door.

He was found dead inside the hotel room.

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President Trump called the attack “an act of pure evil”. Police are still trying to establish a motive.

The attack, which is the 338th mass shooting of 2017 according to a website that monitors gun deaths, has prompted renewed calls for gun control.

The Mass Shootings Tracker defines mass shootings as incidents in which four or more people are killed or injured by gunfire. This includes the gunman.

Drapes billow out of broken windows at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, on the Las Vegas Strip following a deadly shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas. A gunman was found dead inside a hotel room. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Drapes billow out of broken windows at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, on the Las Vegas Strip following a deadly shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas. A gunman was found dead inside a hotel room. (AP Photo/John Locher)

It notes that in September, 31 people were killed and 122 were injured in mass shootings in the country.

In the wake of the attack, Hilary Clinton tweeted: “The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.”

“Our grief isn’t enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again.”