ISIS claims Las Vegas shooting. Paddock converted to Islam.
The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) claimed responsibility on Monday for the shooting on the Las Vegas Strip that ****** at least 58 people and injured 518 more, claiming that shooter Stephen Paddock had converted to Islam months ago.
The jihadi group released the claim on its self-styled news agency Amaq, on the encrypted messaging app Telegram. It typically uses this platform for official claims of responsibility.
The statement, in Arabic, read, "Attacker of the #Las_Vegas shooting is a soldier of the Islamic State and carried out the operation in response to targeting coalition countries," Jihadoscope, a cybermonitoring company that monitors jihadi activity, confirmed in a translation sent to Newsweek.
