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| Las Vegas gunman may have planned escape, sheriff says |
| 2017-10-05 |
| [ABC] As investigators delve deeper into how Sunday night's massacre in Las Vegas unfolded, more chilling details have emerged about the suspected gunman and how he allegedly carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Authorities said Paddock opened fire on a music festival crowd from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, killing 58 people and injuring 530 others. The shooting lasted nine to 11 minutes, with the first reports of gunshots beginning Sunday at 10:05 p.m. PT and the final shots being fired at 10:15 p.m. Paddock is believed to have been solely responsible for the attack, according to police. Speaking this evening, Lombardo said that there is evidence that indicates Paddock, a 64-year-old resident of Mesquite, Nevada, planned to escape. However, Lombardo did not provide any details on what the evidence was or why he believes that. Lombardo added that there are indications Paddock had some kind of help. Car loaded with 50lbs of Tannerite. Where was it parked?Could he have ignited it with a well placed shot and created a diversion in order to escape? Was there another vehicle in the parking lot, an accomplice? Then there is the issue of wiring $100k to his girl friend on vacation in the PI, with instructions to "buy a house." Las Vegas Strip shooter targeted aviation fuel tanks, source says [LasVegasReviewJournal] Las Vegas Strip mass murderer Stephen Paddock used his Mandalay Bay hotel room to spray massive aviation fuel tanks with bullets Sunday night, a knowledgeable source told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The bullets left holes, but did not penetrate the two circular white tanks, sparing the nearby Route 91 Harvest country music festival from a potentially massive explosion, the source said Wednesday. The tanks are roughly 1,100 feet from the concert site, where Paddock killed 58 people and wounded almost 500. Within the past couple of days, construction crews repaired and painted the holes, and FBI agents inspected the tanks and took measurements of the line of fire from Mandalay Bay, the source said. Paddock, a 64-year-old Mesquite resident, had broken two windows in his 32nd-floor suite — one in line with the concert site and the other with a direct view of the fuel tanks, the source said. The bases of private aircraft operators are close to the tanks. FBI spokeswoman Sandra Breault declined to comment. “We can’t comment on an ongoing investigation,” she said late Wednesday. |
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