In an attack that was eerily similar to the shooting at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino in Las Vegas that claimed 59 lives in October, an unidentified gunman took a hostage and opened fire from the eighth floor of a luxury high-rise condominium in Reno, Nevada. Amazingly, no bystanders were injured.
According to NBC, the shooter died Tuesday after a SWAT team descended on him while he was barricaded at the Montage, Reno police Deputy Chief Tom Robinson told reporters. It wasn't immediately clear whether he was killed by police gunfire or his own. The gunman's name has not been released, but he has been described by police as a “young adult.”
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Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock had owned a room at the Montage until December 2016. The high-rise is surrounded by some of downtown Reno's most popular casinos, but the streets were mostly empty on the night of the shooting because of the unusually cold weather.
"When you heard it's coming from above it reminds you of the guy shooting from Mandalay Bay," said Mike Pavicich, who was in town on business from Las Vegas and was standing atop a parking garage at the neighboring Eldorado Resort Casino when the shots rang out, the Associated Press reported.
"It's scary, you know?" Pavicich told the Review-Journal. "This is the same kind of town."
The building was once a casino itself before it was converted into luxury condos, according to its website. Residents at the Montage said they had been told to lock their doors and stay inside during the incident.
Trooper Chris Kelley of the Nevada Highway Patrol told the Reno Gazette-Journal that shots were heard from the building for at least 20 minutes, and TV news reporters said they heard several shots after arriving, though the shots were sporadic, not constant.
Paddock, 64, modified an AR-15 to fire a stream of bullets like an automatic weapon in the attack at Las Vegas, which is 450 miles south.
