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Hotel and casino group MGM Resorts has reached a settlement for an amount of 800 million dollars (more than 680 million euros) with the survivors and relatives of the massacre in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017, when a gunman fired from a hotel room at a country festival. opened and killed 58 people. The settlement was upheld by a court local time on Wednesday.
MGM Resorts had been sued by more than 2,000 people because the hotel owner did not take sufficient security measures. Shooter Stephen Paddock could have taken refuge in the hotel room of the Mandalay Bay hotel and brought in weapons and ammunition undisturbed.
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Paddock fired more than a thousand bullets from his hotel room at visitors to the festival, which took place opposite the hotel.
A total of 58 people were killed in the shooting on October 1, 2017. About 800 people were injured. The motive for Paddock’s deed is unknown. The man, acting alone, took his own life.
The hotel chain had previously announced that it was willing to pay up to $ 800 million to the victims. A judge has now approved that settlement.
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photo">AFP(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 4, 2017 broken windows that Stephen Paddock fired from in the The Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino are seen in Las Vegas, Nevada. – A US court on September 30, 2020 approved an $800 million settlement for victims of America’s worst mass shooting — a rampage that left 58 dead and more than 800 wounded in Las Vegas. In the October 2017 massacre, a man named Stephen Paddock opened fire with high-powered rifles from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, unleashing more than 1,000 rounds as he mowed down people among a crowd attending an outdoor country music festival. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)
