Ariana Grande Responds to Las Vegas Shooting and Calls for 'Unity, Peace, and Gun Control'
Saying that her “heart is breaking,” singer Ariana Grande tweeted out her condolences to victims of the Las Vegas shooting on Monday—and made an urgent plea for gun law reform.
On Sunday night, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire during the Route 91 Harvest music festival, killing at least 58 people and wounding hundreds. As NBC News reported, Paddock “released a barrage of bullets” from a hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino, targeting concertgoers below as they watched country star Jason Aldean’s performance. Paddock’s motives for the attack are still unclear and police believe that Paddock took his own life. They have also said that he had a variety of guns in his hotel room. Information about the victims of the attack is only now becoming available.
“My heart is breaking for Las Vegas,” Grande wrote in response to the news. “We need love, unity, peace, gun control & for people to look at this & call this what it is = terrorism.”
The Las Vegas attack comes just four months after a terrorist detonated a bomb as Grande performed in the United Kingdom’s Manchester Arena. The mid-May attack left 22 people dead and over 50 injured.