Vegas Strip reopens after gunman surrender, fatal shooting

[Zorro]

Source: AP

People are returning to the heart of the Las Vegas Strip after a gunman shot people on a public bus and then barricaded himself inside, shutting down the busy tourism corridor for hours.

The standoff began about 11 a.m. Saturday with a shooting that killed one person and injured another. It happened on a double-decker bus stopped on Las Vegas Boulevard near the Cosmopolitan hotel-casino.

"He was on the bus. He was shooting people on the bus. He was just contained to that location. He never exited the bus," Clark County Assistant Sheriff Tom Roberts said.

Two people were taken to the hospital after the shooting, University Medical Center spokeswoman Danita Cohen said. One died, and the other was in fair condition.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/vegas-strip-shut-down-gunman-bus-203526068.html

[EarthFirst]

1. "Terrorism has been ruled out..."

White guy?

[barbtries]

2. thank you.

i had to search for this thread, but clearly it was a white guy. If it wasn't, there would not have been much of a standoff, the shooter would be dead, and the traffic cleared much faster. AND they would call it terrorism, which if getting on a bus and randomly shooting strangers isn't terroristic what is?

i hope somewhere there's a reason given for the man's actions, and some information on who he is. but i would bet dollars to donuts he's white. if he was black or brown he would be dead right now.

i looked up vegas local news and saw a picture. he's a white guy and the police are claiming mental illness. delusional. they kept him in a standoff for something like 4 hours.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Also charged with burglary, which makes me wonder if mental illness will fly

See http://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/man-faces-charges-murder-burglary-las-vegas-strip-bus-shooting . But not Muslim, so they were willing to go for a standoff and keep him alive.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

5. Not many white guys named Rolando Cardenas

http://m.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/suspect-charged-victim-identified-las-vegas-strip-bus-shooting

[dembotoz]

3. When u are on the strip it would be difficult to avoid the main drag

The building formula really seems to funnel u to the main drag to go pretty much anywhere
No easy detours