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EXTREMELY Graphic Photo Emerges Appearing To Show Deceased Vegas Killer Stephen Paddock
I hesitate to post this, but...

The pic is most assuredly NSFW or those of weak constitution.

Vegas shooter's body is seen splayed on the floor of his hotel room next to his arsenal of assault rifles and ammunition in crime scene photos - as it's revealed he hid a camera in a room service cart so he knew when SWAT teams prepared to enter

[DailyMail]
  • New photos show Vegas shooter's dead body on the floor of his hotel room after he committed suicide

  • In the photo, Stephen Paddock wears a brown long-sleeved top, black slacks, loafers, and black gloves

  • Next to his body are two assault rifles with bi-pods; one has a 'bump stock', making it effectively full-auto

  • Dozens of spent shells litter the floor and in one corner magazines sit in neat stacks

  • A hammer is also seen, which Paddock presumably used to smash open two windows in his suite

  • An investigation is underway to find out who leaked the photographs

  • It was from both of those vantage points that Paddock fired on a crowd of 22,000 attending a music festival

  • He fired on the crowd for 9 minutes, killing at least 59 and injuring 527 - the deadliest attack in U.S. history

  • Video from outside the hotel room shows bullets piercing the front door, from when Paddock shot at cops

  • He set up a camera on a room service cart outside the room to warn him when police were arriving

  • By the time a SWAT team blew open the door to the suite, Paddock had shot himself dead

  • Investigators are struggling to find a reason for why the millionaire retiree carried out the massacre

  • He had no criminal record, and his brother says he wasn't religious or political

  • He did, however, like gambling and in the two weeks prior had carried out several large figure bets

  • In the week before he died, he also wired $100,000 to an account in his girlfriend's native Philippines

  • Girlfriend Marilou Danley is back to being a person of interest and is en route back to the U.S. for questioning

  • On Tuesday, Las Vegas authorities say they had identified all but three of the 59 victims

  • Paddock may have previously planned to attack another open-air music festival, held from September 22-24

  • He had attempted to book specific suites at the Ogden, a luxury condo tower that overlooked the festival, as well as a hotel with festival views, but moved on when he discovered they were booked
Update from the Daily Mail article at 1:00 p.m. ET:
In a Tuesday night press conference, Undersheriff Kevin McMahill defended police for taking 72 minutes to breach the room where Paddock was holed up after first shots were reported at 10:08pm on Sunday.

McMahill said that patrol officers who had been managing the music festival quickly entered the hotel and began working their way up to the 32nd floor, where Paddock was located, evacuating each floor as they went - but that police couldn't act until the SWAT team arrived.

He also said that Paddock's gunfire ceased at around 10:19pm - 59 minutes before his room was breached. At that point, he said, SWAT stopped regarding Paddock as an active shooter and treated him as a less urgent barricade situation, since he was isolated in the room.

McMahill didn't make it clear exactly when the SWAT team was in place, but said that at 10:38pm, a security guard approaching Paddock's room was non-fatally shot. The guard, who is still in hospital, sent 'digital information' to cops, McMahill said.

Details of that incident have not yet been released, but it seems likely that Paddock spotted the guard approaching using the cameras he installed in the door's peephole and in a room service cart he'd left in the hallway.

SWAT raided the room at 11:20pm - something the McMahill said was acceptable because Paddock was no longer shooting and was barricaded in. He said the SWAT team was 'unconventional,' being made up of SWAT members, patrol cops and a K-9 unit.

Elsewher it was revealed that Paddock was prescribed anti-anxiety medication Valium back in June, which has been linked to increased aggressive behavior in multiple studies.

Paddock was taking 10 milligram tablets at the time of the massacre, though it is not known why he was prescribed them or whether he had underlying behavioral issues.

Speaking at the same press conference, Jill Sneider of the ATF said that no less than 12 of the rifles found in the room had bump-stock modifications. In total, there were 23 firearms in the hotel room, including an AK-47, an AR-15-type gun, and a handgun.

But Paddock had still more guns stored in his two houses in Verdi, outside Reno, and Mesquite, bringing the total across all thee locations to 47, she said. They included rifles, shotguns and handguns bought from Nevada, Texas, Utah and California. All had been bought - legally - over the course of more than 20 years.
And from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a possible trigger for the attacks:
Diazepam
...the generic name for Valium...
is a sedative-hypnotic drug in the class of drugs known as benzodiazepines, which studies have shown can trigger aggressive behavior. Chronic use or abuse of sedatives such as diazepam can also trigger psychotic experiences, according to drugabuse.com.

“If somebody has an underlying aggression problem and you sedate them with that drug, they can become aggressive,” said Dr. Mel Pohl, chief medical officer of the Las Vegas Recovery Center. “It can disinhibit an underlying emotional state. … It is much like what happens when you give alcohol to some people … they become aggressive instead of going to sleep.”

Pohl, who spoke to the Review-Journal from the Netherlands, said the effects of the drug also can be magnified by alcohol.

A 2015 study published in World Psychiatry of 960 Finnish adults and teens convicted of homicide showed that their odds of killing were 45 percent higher during time periods when they were on benzodiazepines.

A year earlier, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry published a study titled, “Benzodiazepine Use and Aggressive Behavior.” The authors wrote: “It appears that benzodiazepine use is moderately associated with subsequent aggressive behavior.”
Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2017-10-04
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