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Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock calculated where to shoot to kill maximum number of people
The Washington Examiner ^ | October 7, 2017 | Kimberly Leonard

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; lasvegas; lvmassacre; mccabe; paddock; paddockbio; paddockgambling; paddocknote; paddockweapons; stephenpaddock; vegas
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To: Meet the New Boss

Maybe there was a second guy.. but his real job was to kill the first:

Man on Trial for Killing the Hit Man He Hired to Kill His ...
gawker.com/man-indicted-for-killing-the-hit-man-he-hired-to-kill-h...
Prosecutors say a Kentucky man hired a hit man to kill his family, and then killed the hit man so he wouldn’t have to pay for the job.


161 posted on 10/07/2017 6:49:40 PM PDT by piasa (...)
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To: kdot
Maybe, it was proven that he was a trump hater and was getting his news from MSM. Once that is revealed, the media will be checkmated for inciting violence. This is the calm before the storm?

Like they were checkmated after the Scalise shooting?

162 posted on 10/07/2017 6:50:20 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: independentmind

I’ve been a little curious about that security guard.


163 posted on 10/07/2017 6:50:30 PM PDT by pnz1 (#IMNOTWITHHER)
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To: SaxxonWoods
I wield one of those little hammers. I'm thinking the first shots were to break the tension of the window. The hammer is what takes it out. He's looking for space to work in. Probably two or three quick whacks.

Now this guy is so methodical...we might be able to listen and pick up the rythum of these first shots....and figure it out.

We know absolutely breaking the windows is the first thing he had to do right before he began shooting. Surprised he didn't rip the curtains off.

Wouldn't the casings be different? People don't know what tracers are and the lights of the concert...you might not even notice them.

164 posted on 10/07/2017 6:51:46 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SaxxonWoods

She must be a CNN reporter, trying to get attention away from Paddock as a hater of all people, who have lots of friends and get lots of respect, which is Trump. There is nothing in Paddock’s life to indicate he is a America first patriot and a Trump supporter.


165 posted on 10/07/2017 6:52:48 PM PDT by entropy12 (Republicans flirt with liberal media who will never vote for them! So dumb.)
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To: entropy12

Yep.


166 posted on 10/07/2017 6:54:19 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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To: Meet the New Boss

Nicely played


167 posted on 10/07/2017 6:54:31 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: justa-hairyape

<< 10:09 Shots inside hotel (had to be guard) >>

That’s the cab driver saying that burst sounds farther away. And it could be simply shooting out the other window which was on a face of the building angled away from the cab driver.

The official police timeline had the security guard confronting the shooter at 10:15 IIRC and getting shot and the cops on the floor within 60 seconds after he was shot, at 10:16.


168 posted on 10/07/2017 6:55:28 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He smashed two windows and nobody on the ground complained about falling glass?


169 posted on 10/07/2017 6:55:30 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: Paul R.

Ruger .308, allegedly purchased hours before arriving in Las Vegas on September 28.


170 posted on 10/07/2017 6:57:49 PM PDT by Mr Fuji
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To: rktman

They said he had a breaking tool for that... wonder if it was one of these:

http://www.firehooksunlimited.net/firemaxx.html


171 posted on 10/07/2017 6:58:04 PM PDT by piasa (...)
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To: Sacajaweau

The floor he picked was nine full windows down from the roof line setback at the Penthouse level.
Somebody broke out the ninth window down and broke another window eleven across.

9 down and 11 across

And add in another islamic connection...

The qibla direction, the direction of the Kaaba at Mecca, to which Muslims turn at prayer.

For initial planning purposes
all three sites have the qibla direction
going from the snipers nest thru the killing field to mecca.

Or said differently, The qibla for all three go from the hotel into the music festival to mecca.

Not one, not two but ALL THREE sites!

Harvest Festival
Mandalay Bay
3950 S Las Vegas Blvd,
Las Vegas, NV 89119

Lollapalooza
Blackstone Hotel
636 South Michigan Avenue,
Chicago, IL 60605

Life Is Beautiful
Ogden Hotel
150 North Las Vegas Boulevard,
Las Vegas, NV 89101

Please take the time, make the effort to map all three locations.

Maybe Mandalay was picked so ISIS could operate under the nose of their enemy, the Saudi owners, just above.

But maybe that is also why somebody double crossed somebody and the gun deal went bad.

We are not talking about any other music festivals or about any other hotels at these three sites that don’t point to mecca.

All three sites on the short list with the qibla running from the snipers nest across the killing field to mecca and also the broken out windows 9 down and 11 across.

It just can’t be a coincidence...


172 posted on 10/07/2017 6:58:21 PM PDT by ocsmatw
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To: ocsmatw

What is a qibla?


173 posted on 10/07/2017 7:02:28 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Yeah, I’m with you on the possibility of shooting the windows before using the hammer. Makes sense. That’s the one thing he couldn’t rehearse. Swing too hard and you might injure one of those precious shooting hands.

As for the tracers, if he only fired them at the tanks, it’s quite likely no one noticed that. And that’s where I thought he might use them as it was long distance and maybe he hoped a tracer could ignite the fuel.

He did try and fail once to buy tracers in late Sept.


174 posted on 10/07/2017 7:02:34 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

He smashed two windows and nobody on the ground complained about falling glass?


I’ve been asking that since the day this happened.


175 posted on 10/07/2017 7:02:53 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: independentmind

He was an unarmed security guard. Paddock saw that on video.


176 posted on 10/07/2017 7:02:58 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

I guess it depends what was down below.


177 posted on 10/07/2017 7:03:29 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Meet the New Boss

Listen on headphones. Cab driver video audio in right ear. Video audio in kill zone in left ear. Those text notes in video, two of them, are dead accurate.


178 posted on 10/07/2017 7:06:04 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: entropy12

If you figure out the REAL source of his income you likely have everything solved. He may have had his family and others thinking his millions were handed to him by the casinos but it is simply IMPOSSIBLE. The high stakes video poker machines he was playing are 97% payout machines, meaning if you play every hand to perfection you will LOSE 3% of your money long term. He was obviously using the VP machines to launder his money and hide the true source of his income.


179 posted on 10/07/2017 7:06:15 PM PDT by GLDNGUN
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To: ocsmatw

Well, you’re a real newbie...Oct 6 2017. Don’t stay up too late now. Tomorrow is a school day.


180 posted on 10/07/2017 7:06:20 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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