The night of October 1, 2017, a gunman (later identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nevada) opened fire on a crowd of thousands of people at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival on the Las Vegas Strip, leaving 58 people dead and 546 injured. Between 10:05 and 10:15 p.m. PDT, more than 1,100 rounds were fired from a suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, which was located across Las Vegas Blvd. from the event.
The tragic incident is the deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in the United States and it hit especially close to home for Dallas Cowboys Rhythm & Blue Dancers' second-year veteran Kasey Phillips.