Mass Casualty Incident on Las Vegas Strip

[Scottftlc]

A woman drove a car onto the sidewalk injuring almost 40 and killing at least one, outside Planet Hollywood and the Paris Resort while the Miss Universe Pageant was going on.  She drove off and eventually surrendered herself to security at the Tuscany Hotel. Not a lot of information and there are some rumors starting to pick up. The Strip is closed, and the response (police/rescue) is very large.  More info developing...

http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/las-vegas-strip-closed-to-traffi-reports-of-numerous-injuries

[Scottftlc]

Witnesses say she appeared to drive intentionally at people and went up the sidewalk from Cabo Wabo (Planet Hollywood) to Paris and then she drove back onto The Strip and drove off.

[Scottftlc]

One dead, 36 injured (some critical). No word on reason, speculation runs from drunk or impaired driver all the way to intentional act. 

Witnesses report she was speeding, hit one group and then left the sidewalk, sped up again to a high speed and she hit another large group in front of Paris. This is one of the relatively few places on the Strip where the sidewalk is not blocked - and it is the most crowded part of the Strip.

Reports that there was a small child in the car - and also one of the critically injured is a child of eleven. Many of the injured are Canadians from Quebec.  Police press conference soon (around 10 pm Pacific Time).

Driver barricaded herself in the car at Tuscany as the police surrounded her. She refused to come out for a period of time, her two year old child was in the car with her. 

[Scottftlc]

Police presser: Terrorism is ruled out.  6 victims critical, one dead, 37 total injured. Police are looking at this as an intentional act.  Victims were all walking on the sidewalk. No name of perp in custody released.  3 year old toddler in car too.  Victims were struck in two separate locations.

Police spokesman reiterates they believe this was an intentional act.  Treating it as homicide and attempted mass homicide. No word of impairment, sounds like impairment is not something they are considering strongly. Woman had only been in Vegas about one week.

Police not releasing the name of the perpetrator.  Car was a 1996 Oldsmobile.

Las Vegas Metro police asking anyone with knowledge or who might have witnessed event to call.  Woman went more than one city block on sidewalk in two episodes.

[Scottftlc]

Another police report coming around 11 pm Pacific.  Car was registered out of state - not really unusual here.  No state given.  Heavy police on The Strip, which is closed. I can see 20 cruisers or so on scene...others blocking The Strip.  Helicopters now showing the car used - Tuscany Resort lot is almost emptied, only that car there, isolated away from all others.  Police have barricaded the lot.

Police update around 11:15.

The Strip will remain closed indefinitely.

[Scottftlc]

Final police briefing tonight: They are checking through tapes from surveillance cameras on The Strip (everything that happens there is on camera), 6 critically injured are stable, it has been determined absolutely that this was an intentional act.  Black female in her 20's, Oregon plates, went up on sidewalk 2 to 3 times separately. She will be charged in the next few hours.  No nexus to terrorism.  Not a terrorism investigation.  Police not willing to answer questions at update.

No name given.  Just a black female in her 20's.

[EC]

Thank you, Scott. 

[240B]

Crazy thing how I new that. I mean it really actually is.

When I first read the story, the very first thing I thought was Laquisha, or Laqwuanda or some crazy crap like that. It was never going to be Patty, or Betty who did this. I knew that in one second.

I am telling the absolute truth. That was the first thing I thought. And so it was.

[mountaineer]

Las Vegas Sidewalk Crash: One Dead, 26 Hurt in 'Intentional Act'
by M. Alex Johnson
NBC News

A woman with a toddler in her car repeatedly plowed into pedestrians on the crowded Las Vegas strip, killing one person and injuring at least 26 others in what police say may have been an intentional assault.

Las Vegas Deputy Police Chief Brett Zimmerman said the incident was "not an act of terrorism" but appeared to be intentional. He said homicide units were investigating.

Flashing ambulance lights overtook the glitz of the famous Strip after the deadly incident, which took place near the hotel where the Miss Universe pageant was ending.

Police said the driver, a woman in her 20s, swerved onto the sidewalk two or three times on the Strip at around 6:40 p.m. (9:40 p.m. ET) local time along a stretch of the Strip near the Paris Las Vegas and Planet Hollywood hotels.

Police and emergency crews respond to the scene on Sunday night. John Locher / AP

The 1996 Oldsmobile with Oregon plates drove off from the scene and was found parked at another hotel, according to police. The driver was detained and will face charges, police told an early-morning press conference, adding that the 3-year-old who was in her car was unharmed.

Police did not identify the driver, but said it appeared she recently had moved to the area.

"This is a huge tragedy that has occurred on our Strip," police Lt. Peter Boffelli said.

At least six of the injured were transported to hospitals in critical condition, but all were stable early Monday morning, Las Vegas police said. Authorities initially said 37 people were injured, but they later said 26 people had been transported to three hospitals.

The driver hit pedestrians in two areas, according to police, which said witnesses described the car speeding up and slamming into a second group of people after the initial strike.

 Rabia Qureshi, a tourist from Wisconsin, told NBC station KSNV that the car looked like "a bowling ball and the human bodies were like pins."

"You think it's a show, because you're in Vegas," Qureshi said. "But then I saw some people fly in the air."

Qureshi's husband, Atif, a surgeon, stopped their car and dashed out to lend assistance.

"The first thing that came into my mind was that I should be out there helping them," Atif Qureshi said.

Another witness, Sofie Kitterød, told NBC News that she saw 10 people being taken away in ambulances.

"What we've heard is that a car drove up on the sidewalk by Planet Hollywood and continued past Paris Hotel," Kitterød said. "There are many ambulances on both sites."

Why not call it terrorism? Just because they don't have evidence of her religious affiliation? Still looks like her actions incited terror.

[mountaineer]

Las Vegas P.D. tweet and responses:


LVMPD ‏@LVMPD 5h5 hours ago
Deputy Chief Zimmerman: This was not an act of terrorism. Initial investigation appears this was intentional.

Dana Brass ‏@DanaBrass 5h5 hours ago
@LVMPD yet the tinfoil wearing fools are out in full force claiming as such & insulting those of us who beg to differ. God help us all..

darrelanderson ‏@darrelanderson 5h5 hours ago
@HouseCracka @LVMPD maybe workplace violence? How far away was a planned parenthood clinic? Perhaps an internet video?

darrelanderson ‏@darrelanderson 5h5 hours ago
@HouseCracka @LVMPD did trump inflame her? Did we offend some sort of religious sensitivity? Perhaps we weren't green?

[mountaineer]

Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) - UPDATE: Police have now confirmed that the crash was intentional. 

According to Las Vegas police, a black woman in her 20s driving a 1996 Oldsmobile drove onto the sidewalk between the Paris hotel-casino and Bally's at 2 different locations.  The driver has been arrested and a 3-year-old child in the car with the driver is unharmed. 6 victims are still in critical condition and 1 person has died. 

Witnesses reported that people tried to stop the driver and that her windshield was completely smashed. She fled the scene and police caught her at Flamingo Road and Koval.  She was briefly barricaded in her car and refused to come out for a while before she was arrested.  Her vehicle has Oregon license plates and it is believed that she has been in Las Vegas for about a week.

The woman was transported to Clark County Detention Center. More information will be released Monday morning. Las Vegas police would like to hear from any witnesses to the incident.

Las Vegas Boulevard is expected to be closed until approximately 6 a.m. between Flamingo Road and Harmon Ave. Motorists are advised to seek alternate routes.

[rangerrebew]

Car Plows Down 37 People, Kills One on Las Vegas Strip
Authorities say they "know this was not an act of terrorism."
12.21.2015
 
Sarah Fisher
 

According to authorities, a woman drove her car into a crowd multiple times on Sunday night. One person was killed and 37 were injured.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Lt. Dan McGrath said the driver "went up and off these streets, two or possibly three times."  The woman is being held at Clark County Jail.

    The incident occurred at around 6:40 p.m. local time (9:40 p.m. EST). The woman's car, a 1996 Oldsmobile, was in the northbound lanes of Las Vegas Boulevard near Bellagio Way when it drove up onto the sidewalk in front of the Paris Hotel & Casino and struck pedestrians, police Lt. Peter Boffelli said. Police confirmed the person killed was an adult, but would not identify the victim further.

"This is a huge tragedy that has happened on our Strip," Boffelli told reporters at a news conference.

LVMPD Deputy Chief Brett Zimmerman said authorities "know this was not an act of terrorism."

    Lt. McGrath said the car was registered in Oregon and the driver had recently moved to the area. After the crash, the car headed east on Flamingo Road before it was found at a hotel, McGrath said. The driver was taken into custody at the hotel, police said. A 3-year-old child was in the vehicle with her but was not hurt, Zimmerman said.

One witness described the car was going around 30-40mph when it hit pedestrians on the strip. "It was just massacring people," he said.

"Why would it slow to go around and then accelerate again?" he said. "I thought it's a crazy person."

Said another witness, "At first, I thought it was a movie shoot. I thought maybe we'd see someone famous."

Clark County Fire Chief Gregg Cassell said that 70 emergency works were sent to the scene.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/car-plows-down-37-people-kills-one-las-vegas-strip

[jmyrlefuller]

We need responsible, common-sense automobile control now.

[EdinVA]

We need responsible, common-sense automobile control now.

Nah, just the automobiles that have artificial intelligence and can act without human interaction.. :)

[aligncare]

One dead, 36 injured (some critical). No word on reason, speculation runs from drunk or impaired driver all the way to intentional act. 

Witnesses report she was speeding, hit one group and then left the sidewalk, sped up again to a high speed and she hit another large group in front of Paris. This is one of the relatively few places on the Strip where the sidewalk is not blocked - and it is the most crowded part of the Strip.

Reports that there was a small child in the car - and also one of the critically injured is a child of eleven. Many of the injured are Canadians from Quebec.  Police press conference soon (around 10 pm Pacific Time).

Driver barricaded herself in the car at Tuscany as the police surrounded her. She refused to come out for a period of time, her two year old child was in the car with her.

Will the left demand more car control?

[aligncare]

I see I'm late with my Snark...

[aligncare]

Crazy thing how I new that. I mean it really actually is.

When I first read the story, the very first thing I thought was Laquisha, or Laqwuanda or some crazy crap like that. It was never going to be Patty, or Betty who did this. I knew that in one second.

I am telling the absolute truth. That was the first thing I thought. And so it was.

Why are they ruling out terrorism? Appears to me this is terrorism...racial terrorism.

[Free Vulcan]

How many people must die before we ban these assault vehicles?

[aligncare]

How many people must die before we ban these assault vehicles?

 

Well played!

[Scottftlc]

I have to say last night when this all started coming over the TV, at first terrorism was not ruled out for an hour and a half, then suddenly the police said it was intentional and definitely not terrorism, my tinfoil went on because it was just about the right amount of time to get instructions from Harry Reid (he controls things down here in ways it's hard to imagine), and we never heard from the Metro Sherriff but the no terrorism declaration kept it in Metro hands and away from the FBI.  It was weird, TV was slow getting to it, took almost an hour for reporters to get on the scene - Sunday night.

But all that is just the tinfoil talking at this point - still weird we have no name...the woman had her 3 year old with her when she did this. And she resisted surrender for some unstated period of time, barricading herself and the child in the car.

[Scottftlc]

Driver of the car identified, by Oregon media, as Lakeisha Holloway - 24 years old.  She had been in Vegas less than one week.  The one oddity is that there are multiple reports of the car having the windshield smashed out (during the rampage), however the photos of what is said to be the car with police tape around it, does not show a smashed windshield...so maybe that isn't the car? 

http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/oregon-news-outlets-id-woman-driver-in-deadly-strip-crash

[flowers]

any word if she was high?  Only other woman this month who didn't care for her child is jihadi bonnie in SB.

[flowers]

Crazy thing how I new that. I mean it really actually is.

When I first read the story, the very first thing I thought was Laquisha, or Laqwuanda or some crazy crap like that. It was never going to be Patty, or Betty who did this. I knew that in one second.

I am telling the absolute truth. That was the first thing I thought. And so it was.

Same thing I first thought too.

[Scottftlc]

any word if she was high?  Only other woman this month who didn't care for her child is jihadi bonnie in SB.

Nothing on impairment as yet.  Police have not promoted that idea.  They said it was intentional - definitely intentional - which, of course, does not eliminate the idea of impairment.  But that is not where the emphasis has been here so far.  We may know more at the 11:00 AM Pacific update.  The child being in the car is just bizarre.  I wonder if some form of mental illness is at play or if she was perhaps a Black Lives Matter type or something of an angry state of mind.

[flowers]

Nothing on impairment as yet.  Police have not promoted that idea.  They said it was intentional - definitely intentional - which, of course, does not eliminate the idea of impairment.  But that is not where the emphasis has been here so far.  We may know more at the 11:00 AM Pacific update.  The child being in the car is just bizarre.  I wonder if some form of mental illness is at play or if she was perhaps a Black Lives Matter type or something of an angry state of mind.

Yes the child. I think even BLM moms wouldn't harm child in that way. I haven't heard of a story yet like that from BLM.  Yet muzzies do. SB mom left her 6 month old child knowing she would never come back. Sharia types care more about the cult than anything. Since you have Reid in charge we may never know the truth. you know her  facebook page is long gone.