Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino has changed the number of the hotel floor where a gunman had holed up last October to perpetrate the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
Floors 31, 32, 33 and 34 of the 43-story Las Vegas Strip hotel will be renumbered 56, 57, 58 and 59, said a spokesman for MGM Resorts International, which owns Mandalay Bay.
It was a suite on Mandalay Bay’s 32nd floor that Stephen Paddock converted into a sniper’s nest on the evening of October 1 and rained automatic rifle fire on an outdoor country music concert, killing 58 people and wounding more than 500.
No motive for the massacre is known. Paddock, a 64-year-old Mesquite, Nev., resident, took his own life as police closed in.
In related news, it’s reported that a Mesa, Ariz., ammunition dealer who admitted selling hundreds of rounds of tracer bullets to Paddock in September has been charged with conspiracy to make and sell armor-piercing ammunition without a license.
News reports said the dealer, 55-year-old Douglas Haig, claims to have no knowledge of any criminal intent by Paddock and that none of the surplus military ammunition he sold was fired during the killing spree.
