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Gunman was shooting at hotel guard + worker in hallway several minutes before attack on festival
[CBSNews] A maintenance worker ... told hotel dispatchers to call police and report a gunman had opened fire with a rifle inside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino hotel before the shooter began firing from his high-rise suite into a crowd at a nearby musical performance. ...Worker Stephen Schuck says he was checking out a report of a jammed fire door on the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay when he heard gunshots and a hotel security guard, who had been shot in the leg, peeked out from an alcove and told him to take cover. "As soon as I started to go to a door to my left the rounds started coming down the hallway," Schuck said. "I could feel them pass right behind my head. "It was kind of relentless so I called over the radio what was going on," he said. "As soon as the shooting stopped we made our way down the hallway and took cover again and then the shooting started again." Las Vegas massacre gunman had a NORMAL brain: Autopsy finds 'no abnormalites' that could have driven him to kill 58 innocent people [DailyMail] The Las Vegas sheriff leading the investigation into America's worst mass shooting has said 'we may never know' what motivated Stephen Paddock to kill 58 people. Joe Lombardo said and exam of Paddock's brain has revealed 'no abnormalities' while girlfriend Marilou Danley had 'no concerns' over his mental health. Detectives have contacted every branch of Paddock's family tree, including both his ex-wives, but have no uncovered anything that would explain his murderous actions. 'All those things that you would expect to find, we have not found,' Lombardo said in an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Lombardo was able to shed more light on Paddock's time in Las Vegas before he began his massacre on Sunday, October 1. Paddock had arrived in the city three days earlier than originally thought, but stayed in a different room that was provided free of charge by the hotel. When he moved to the corner suite from which he carried out the massacre, the hotel began charging him for the stay. Police initially only counted charged days, hence the confusion, Lombardo said. Lombardo said his team had reviewed hours of CCTV footage, and were not aware of any evidence to suggest he went into the desert to practice shooting in the days before the massacre, or that he hired a prostitute, as has been reported. A bellboy did help Paddock move several bags up to his room, Lombardo revealed, adding that the killer traveled back and forth to his hometown of Mesquite several times before the massacre. Posted by: si vis pacem, para bellum 2017-10-12 |
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