The
woman, who has not been publicly identified, showed her cab driver her
damaged phone after the horrific attack that left 59 people dead and 527
injured during country music star Jason Aldean’s concert Sunday night.
A
photo of the pricey and popular device shows the back of the iPhone
completely shattered after being hit by a single bullet. It’s unclear
how or where the woman was holding the phone while fleeing the scene of
the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
Gunman Stephen Paddock, 64, died from what’s believed to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Police
say Paddock started firing down on the crowd of 22,000 people at the
concert from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino.
His motive for the horrendous attack is being investigated by police and federal authorities.
It
took police 72 minutes to zero in on Paddock’s hotel room on the 32nd
floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino across the street from the
festival.
They say he had cameras set up in the hallway so he would know when authorities arrived.
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Paddock continued to fight even as police breached his room – firing
through the front door at officers. But by the time the SWAT team
finally made it into the room, Paddock had killed himself.
He
lived in 27 residences in Nevada, Florida and Texas as an adult, but
other than that he had apparently lived a quiet and unremarkable life.
The retired accountant had worked as an internal auditor at Lockheed
Martin for three years in the late 1980s, and was a manager and investor
in apartment complexes located in Mesquite, Texas and California, which
made him millions, his brother said, according to the Las Vegas Sun.
Local
police said they had no run-ins with the man, not even traffic
violations, and his brother described him as ‘just a guy who lived in
Mesquite who drove down and gambled in Las Vegas and… liked
burritos’.
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