On April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho shot 32 people to death on the Blacksburg, Virginia, campus before killing himself. Mateen was a lone-wolf shooter, using a rifle and handgun he'd purchased legally, according to authorities. He was later killed following a standoff with police. On June 12, 2016, 49 people were killed and dozens more were wounded after gunman Omar Mateen opened fire and took hostages at Pulse, a LGBT-friendly nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
Police reported at least 58 people were killed and more than 500 people were injured in the shooting. Several weapons were located in the 64-year-old Paddock's hotel room. ET), gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort on a crowd watching Aldean. These are the deadliest mass shootings on U.S. It eclipsed the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando as the worst event of its kind. The mass shooting as Jason Aldean performed at a country music festival in Las Vegas is now the deadliest such incident in modern American history.
