I’m not ready to assume he was really running back and forth between his room and Brian Hodge’s room where the second window was broken out.
Supposedly the door was locked between the the two rooms when SWAT got there.
We know basically nothing about what was found in Hodge’s room with the second broken window, except we can see an electric cord running under Hodge’s door to the corridor.
Brian Hodge’s room where the second window was broken out?? No that wasn’t his window. Paddock had the big suite and the smaller adjoining room next to the suite where he had a direct line at the fuel tanks. Pretty sure Hodge’s room was next to the smaller room Paddock had.
Layout of 32nd floor wing where Paddock had his two rooms:
https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/mandalay-bay-massacre-13-hotel.jpg
And maybe Paddock was not running back and forth, but a lot of people who have heard the shots including several at the concert say there were a few shots at first that sound as if they were at the fuel tanks/bouncing off them.
Then a pause, and the crowd starts getting sprayed.
Paddock could have started in the small room aiming at the fuel tanks, then when that was a bust he went to the larger adjoining suite shutting the door that adjoins both rooms behind him, locking it before closing it. And never went back into it again and stayed in the large suite shooting at the concert goers until he ended his own life.
Again it’s all speculation, but it would explain the pause between shots initially.
