Posted on 10/07/2017 4:36:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Police found a note in the hotel room of Stephen Paddock, the gunman behind the mass shooting in Las Vegas, that had hand-written calculations about where he needed to aim to kill as many people as possible.
In an interview that will be aired Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes," Officer Dave Newton from the Las Vegas Police Department's K-9 unit said he noticed a note on the shooter's bedside table after officers entered the room. The note was next to one of the windows that Paddock smashed with a hammer to clear an opening to fire into the crowd from his 32nd-floor hotel suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
"I could see on it he had written the distance, the elevation he was on, the drop of what his bullet was gonna be for for the crowd," Newton said. "So he had had that written down and figured out so he would know where to shoot to hit his targets from there."
Using semi-automatic rifles that he modified with a "bump stop" to increase their rate of fire, Paddock on Oct. 1 killed 58 people and injured nearly 500 others. Paddock, 64, killed himself with a gun before police entered the room to find his body and 47 weapons.
More than 20,000 people were attending the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival when Paddock began shooting into the crowd, which was about 400 yards away.
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Well the sheriff said it wasn’t a suicide note a couple of days ago but a bunch of numbers.
I was at a bump stop or a bump stock
which were you at?
And nobody in the crowd could shoot back.
If that were possible, this chap might have thought twice about his fish-in-a-barrel idea. Fish in a barrel that shoot back are not nearly the fun.
“Very eerie. Yeah, the dust from the explosive breach. And then you have the flashing lights,” Newton said. “And that looked straight, like, out of a movie, you know?”
Police have still not determined the motive for the attack and said they aren’t yet sure whether anyone else was involved.
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okay now it was the police who set off the fire alarm from the explosive breach. we were told up until now Paddock set it off from all his rapid fire inside the room.
He offed himself at the first sign of resistance.
Yeah... it would have happened a lot sooner had someone in the place been ready to shoot back.
It’s imho likely going to be a whitewash from CBS, to establish the
narrative that Paddock was a lone shooter.
Case closed.
Well he DID calculate it. It was in a no-guns-allowed place.
Maybe he WAS a lone shooter. Everybody else was obeying the no guns sign.
The security guard got there within ten minutes. Paddock had jammed the stairway doors, otherwise he would have gotten their sooner. He saw the guard on his surveillance camera and shot him through the door, then shot himself because there were no more shots after the guard was shot.
The guard stopped it just by showing up. Paddock was a total coward, obviously, and he didn’t want to take a chance on engaging anyone who could shoot back.
Considering what he was shooting and the elevation he pretty much could have aimed right at them and possibly below them. If he had sighted in the rifles to be on the money at 400 yards level ground he would definitely need to aim low.
From what I heard on about a 15 minute YouTube video, the shooter didn’t know what he was doing. He would fire a long burst, then there would be a long pause before he fired another long burst and would then pause for a long time before letting loose another burst. The long pauses, especially the first pause permitted crowd separation which saved many lives.
I think he was the lone shooter. Was he the lone planner? The jury is still out on that one.
The police they’re not ruling out someone was a part of the plan of even there before the shooting in the room.
They’ve been pretending for days that they were baffled by the note with numbers on it. The most obvious first thing to check would be shooting calculations.
The public is being given the mushroom treatment.
The windows in the room probably have a break detector tied into the alarm system that was set off when he busted out the windows.
he was trying to hit those fuel tanks and to do that he had to run to the second smaller room where the window was busted out then back I assume to the other window to hit the crowd.
I think he was the lone shooter. Was he the lone planner? The jury is still out on that one.
The police they’re not ruling out someone was a part of the plan of even there before the shooting in the room.
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I’m in agreement with this analysis.
the security guard story is still sketch. we’ve been given a couple different versions.
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