Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — An off-duty police officer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Department was killed at a mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas Sunday night.
And, several law enforcement and fire service members from across California are among those wounded in the shooting rampage.
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo reported that an off-duty Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer was killed during the shooting rampage Sunday night. He has not been identified, pending notification of next of kin.
The Los Angeles Police Department says Monday that an off-duty officer who was shot in the leg is expected to recover.
LA County Sheriff’s officials say two off-duty department employees were hit by gunfire Sunday. One was critically injured and the other is stable.
Orange County authorities say one off-duty sheriff’s deputy and two wives of department employees sustained non-life-threatening wounds.
Bakersfield police said in a news release that one of its off-duty officers wounded in the gunfire is expected to survive. They reported that Officer Aaron Mundhenke, a 6 year veteran with the department, was hit in his lower torso and sustained a non-life threatening injury.
The Bakersfield police department added that several of their off-duty officers were in attendance. “Some of our officers witnessed the gunfire but were not in a position to return fire.”
Police in Ontario say a 24-year-old officer who was wounded is stable. The officer’s wife had minor injuries.
The Los Angeles Fire Department Chief also tweeted that two members of the fire service were wounded in the shooting.
Sunday’s shooting killed 58 people and injured more than 500 others.
Authorities have identified the suspected gunman as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock. Paddock died after police confronted him Sunday on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay casino-hotel tower on the Las Vegas Strip.