Vegas Shooter's Use of Service Elevator May Cost Hotel

The biggest lawsuit to date in the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas has been filed in California on behalf of 450 people who were injured or at least present when Stephen Paddock opened fire. 

The lawsuit was actually just one of five filed in California on Monday, reports Reuters, and they add to the growing litigation over the massacre. 

The big targets are MGM Resorts, owner of the Mandalay Bay hotel where Paddock stayed, and the organizers of the country musical festival he fired upon. The lawsuits accuse both of lax security and training, and NPR notes that one issue in particular was raised—Mandalay Bay's decision to give high-roller Paddock access to a service elevator not open to the public.

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