UF Student Injured In Las Vegas Shooting

GAINESVILLE, FL — A student from the University of Florida was among the hundreds injured when gunshots rang out during the final night of the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas Sunday.

UF president W. Kent Fuchs took to Twitter to share the news Monday afternoon.

“A UF student was wounded in horrific Las Vegas mass shooting,” Fuchs said. “She is in stable condition.” (For more local news from Florida, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Land O' Lakes Patch, and click here to find your local Florida Patch. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

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Fuchs did not say whether the female student was struck by a bullet or injured during the chaos that erupted after the shots were fired. He also did not release the student’s name or information about where she is from.

The massacre, now deemed the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, occurred at the end of the three-day Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Shots rang out while Jason Aldean was on stage, entertaining a crowd of more than 20,000 outside the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino.

Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo reported Monday morning the shooter, who perched in a room on the hotel’s 32nd floor, is Stephen Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada. Paddock, Lombardo said, was dead by the time officers breached his room. Before Paddock’s death, police say he killed at least 58 people and left more than 500 injured.

The incident has eclipsed last year's Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando that saw 49 people killed and 58 injured.

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