User of social media website 4chan are treating the Las Vegas shooting like a game.
People are celebrating a new ‘high score’, in reference to the death count which now stands at 58.
One comment reads: ‘The real news here is that the high score is back in the hands of the white race. Get fucked Asians, Cho was never going to hold it.’
It alludes to Seung-Hui Cho, the 23-year-old student who gunned down 32 people and took his own life a Virginia Tech in Blacksburg on April 16 2007.
Another comment reads: ‘The Pulse high score has been beaten. 50 confirmed deceased, maybe more from injuries. Doesn’t look like he’s going to reach Breivik’s mark unless things are being way under-reported.’
This is in reference to the second worst mass shooting in US history which took place at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando last year, where 49 people were killed.
Anders Breivik was the man responsible for slaying 77 people on a remote island in Norway in 2011.
The number of those injured in the attack on Route 91 Harvest Festival in the Las Vegas Strip has risen to more than 400.
Stephen Paddock, 64, was named by police as the Las Vegas shooter on Sunday night.
US records show Paddock lived in a three-year-old, $396,000 two-bedroom home in the tiny desert community of Mesquite, 80 miles north east of Las Vegas near the Arizona state border. Local media said he had also previously lived in Reno, Nevada, California and Florida.
He lived in the property in Babbling Brook Court with Marilou Danley, 62, records show.
Described as four feet 11 inches tall, she was named as his ‘companion’ and a person of interest by police, and County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo later said she had been located.
Paddock’s family say they are ‘dumbfounded’.
His brother, Eric Paddock, said something must have made him ‘snap’ to pick off concert-goers from his Mandalay Bay Hotel room on Sunday night.
He told DailyMail.com: ‘He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something. ‘We know absolutely nothing, this is just, we are dumbfounded. ‘We have absolutely no idea. Our condolences go to the victims and all their families.’
Deadliest shootings in US history
Pulse nightclub (49 killed): Omar Saddiqui Mateen, 29, opened fire inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando on June 12 last year. Nearly 50 people were killed and more than 50 others injured. Mateen was shot dead by police and hostages freed.
Virginia Tech (32 killed): A 23-year-old student, Seung-Hui Cho, gunned down 32 people and took his own life at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg on April 16 2007.
Sandy Hook (27 killed): On December 14 2012, 27 people were shot and killed by Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Children aged six and seven were among the victims. Lanza killed himself. His mother was later found dead with a gunshot wound.
Texas canteen (23 killed): A total of 23 people were killed in Killeen, Texas, when 35-year-old George Hennard crashed his pickup truck through the wall of a canteen on October 16 1991.
California McDonald’s (21 killed): 21 were shot dead by 41-year-old James Huberty who targeted adults and children at a McDonald’s in San Ysidro in California on July 18 1984.
Marine tower (around 18 killed): Joseph Whitman, former US Marine, killed around 18 people when he climbed a clock tower at the University of Texas and opened fire on August 1 1966.
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