At least one person has died after a gunman opened fire near Las Vegas's famous Bellagio Fountains, local media reported.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said their officers are responding to a shooting on the 3600 block of S. Las Vegas Boulevard, and were quick to inform the public that it did not take place inside a casino.

They have also asked people to avoid the area. Local media reported that cops have already blocked pedestrian and vehicle access to the area.

Local media has reported that one person has so far died. It is not currently known how many other people, if any, were injured or killed in the attack.

In what appears to be video footage of the attack, a man appears to get into a small verbal altercation with a woman in front of the Balloon Sign outside the Paris Las Vegas, which sits across the road from the Bellagio fountains.