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The Latest: Trump calls Vegas shooter ‘demented man’

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on President Donald Trump and the Las Vegas shooting (all times local):

8:38 a.m.

President Donald Trump is calling the man who killed 59 people and wounded hundreds others at a music festival in Las Vegas a “very, very sick individual.”

Trump spoke to reporters Tuesday as he departed for a trip to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. He called the gunman “demented” and said “we’re looking into him very seriously.”

Trump also praised Las Vegas police, saying they had done an “incredible job.”