Ducey orders Arizona flags to half-staff to mourn Las Vegas victims

PHOENIX — Flags in Arizona will be flown at half-staff for the remainder of this week to mourn the victims of a shooting at a country music concert in Las Vegas.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey ordered all flags be flown at half-staff through sunset on Friday.

“Our deepest prayers are with Las Vegas, all those killed and injured, and their families,” he said in a statement.

Ducey said it was important that officials, first responders and families get the support they need and his state was ready to assist in any way.

President Donald Trump ordered flags be flown at half-staff nationwide to mourn the victims and called the shooting an “act of pure evil.”

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At least 58 people were killed and at least 510 more were injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.

The suspect has been identified as Stephen Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada. He had opened fire on 22,000 concertgoers from a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino.

A Las Vegas Police SWAT team said Paddock was found dead in the room. NBC News reported that at least 10 weapons were found in the room.

The shooter’s brother, Eric Paddock, told the Orlando Sentinel he was “completely dumbfounded” and that the family had “no idea why he did this.”

Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said they believe this was a “lone wolf” attack. The FBI was assisting the investigation.

A Homeland Security official said there was no specific “credible threat” to other public venues in the U.S.

Concertgoers reported seeing muzzle flashes from the upper floors of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino across Las Vegas Boulevard from the Route 91 country music festival and the sound of what they described as automatic gunfire.

Kodiak Yazzie, 36, said the music stopped temporarily when the first shots began and the tune even started up again before the second round of pops sent the performers ducking for cover and fleeing the stage.

“It was the craziest stuff I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” Yazzie said. “You could hear that the noise was coming from west of us, from Mandalay Bay.

“You could see a flash-flash-flash-flash.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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