LAS VEGAS — Some of the people injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history didn’t initially realize they had been shot, a hospital official said.
“We have gotten calls from people, from home, to ask if they can have bullets removed,” said Dr. Sean Dort, a trauma surgeon and the trauma center medical director at the Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican Hospital’s Siena campus. “There are people who are shot and don’t know at first. If it’s not a very high-speed velocity, it doesn’t hurt.”
Fifty-eight people were killed and more than 500 were injured Sunday night in a shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Police say Stephen Paddock perched himself on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay casino hotel and opened fire for at least nine minutes on the crowd of 22,000 people attending the outdoor country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip.
The injured landed in 13 hospitals scattered across southern Nevada. Most have been treated and released.