. >> active soom 32135. >> 32135. >> reporter: he turned his room into an arsenal. the helpless crowd below finding cover wherever they could. those 911 calls are department as investigators are still trying to piece together what led paddock to murder 58 people and injure hundreds more in the worst mass shooting in modern american history. >> so hard for all the families to relive this with this audio tonight. matt gutman with us live. and we're learning this evening, matt, that those 911 calls ultimately helped lead police to the gunman? >> reporter: that's right, david. they tell us that police and law enforcement were informed of his exact location, on the 32nd floor of that hotel, within minutes of the shooting, and it only took another few more minutes for s.w.a.t. teams to begin to assemble there on the 32nd floor. but they wouldn't learn that stephen paddock had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound for another hour or so when they finally breached the door to his room. david? >> matt gutman, who has been following this from the start. >>> now, to that shoc