Posted on 10/08/2017 5:38:24 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
An Australian has revealed that he believes Stephen Paddock, the gunman that terrorised the Las Vegas strip on Monday night, was staying next door to him.
Brian Hodge, who hails from NSW, told The Age that he was staying in room 32134 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
Paddock, who killed at least 59 people and injured 527 more was tracked down and then found dead in room 32135 - next door to the 36-year-old.
Mr Hodge is thankful that he was not in his room at the time police used controlled explosives to enter room 32134 and locate Paddock.
'It was hardcore, like it was full machine-guns for 20 seconds and then it stopped for five seconds then it just went again,' he said, describing how he hid in bushes outside of the hotel for more than three hours.
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The SWAT team described how they entered Paddock's suite 32135 and in detail what they saw, drills, drill bits, tools, phones, laptops, weapons, note on stand, etc.
As far as Room 32134, which Brian Hodge says was his room, they said absolutely nothing, other than to say they "had to breach the door on the other side" to get into 32134, and then because they saw no one else, they left.
Nothing about the broken window in 32134, nothing about what they saw in 32134, whether there were shell casing strewn about, nothing.
Again, here is the leaked video of the scene at the corridor:
https://youtu.be/d8UCTlXdQn0
20 sec. —> 200 round burst.
Anecdotal. Not real data.
When hiding from a burst of machine gun fire, or when hearing mortars fired and waiting for impact, time estimates become rather difficult. I doubt the poor dude used a stopwatch.
No way a bump stock on a civilian grade semiautomatic gives a sustained 20-second burst.
Sounds like they had no idea of the internal structure of the rooms and which broken windows matched with which room.
It has been reported that he had rented the other room that had the broken windiw.
I can easily understand that.
The point is that there are objective data regarding the number of shots and their timing.
This guy’s qualitative information should not be presented as definitive in any way now that we are a week away and have had some time to analyze..
Diamond-tipped drill bits to weaken the window glass?
What do you mean? The first broken window was in 32-135.
The second broken window was in 32-134. This is the room Brian Hodge says he stayed in.
Look at this if you don’t believe 32-134 is the room with the second broken window and the food cart in front of it:
Zactly.
Bump stock is fun but, not easy to sustain without a lot of practice.
Your post doesn’t address my comment.
The idea that Paddock was a lone wolf and yet broke into the next hotel room 32-134 (in which Brian Hodge says he was staying) in order to break the window and set a camera on a food cart just doesn’t add up.
If he wanted a second window on another angle, why didn’t he break another window in his own suite? He had windows further down in his own room on the same side of the hotel as Hodge’s room.
Why did SWAT have to breach the connecting door to Hodge’s room in order to get in it? If Paddock was moving back and forth between the two hotel rooms, why wasn’t the door open?
Was it actually locked from Hodge’s side? Then we are supposed to believe Paddock broke into Hodge’s room, broke the window and set the food cart camera, then locked the connecting door between the two hotel rooms, exiting into the corridor and reentering his own room in the front door. But if Paddock broke into Hodge’s room through the connecting door then how did the lock on the connecting door still work for Paddock to lock it, requiring the SWAT team to breach it?
But if the connecting door between the two hotel rooms was not damaged when SWAT came upon it, but was simply locked, that would suggest Paddock entered Hodge’s room not by breaking the connecting door but by entering from the corridor - for example, by using a security guard passkey.
It’s rare to get a full 30 round mag off with a slide-fire stock. There will be maybe one or two hiccups.
But THIS guy..?
As if by magic he was getting 100 rounds, no hiccups at all.
AND he had the unreliable huge mags.
THAT is the weirdest part to me, I don’t care about heavy luggage, or how many windows were broken, or echoes. I don’t care about any of that.
It’s the Loooooooong shooting strings supposedly made with the slide-fire AND the unreliable, huge mags.
The article I posted reports that Brian Hodge rented 32-134.
I posted video proving that 32-134 is the room with the food cart in front of it and the second broken window.
Please show where it is reported that Paddock rented hotel room 32-134 in addition to hotel room 32-135 (the Vista Suite.)
You’re assuming that is not Paddock’s food cart that he never called to have taken away, because he did use the food cart to place a camera or cameras in order to see down the hall while he was inside shooting. It could have been moved by the Swat in front of the 32134 door, or Paddock could have moved it away from the front of his suite door and placed it at 32134 strategically for the camera view.
Considering how well Paddock planned this he either lucked out and Brian Hodges was both gone from his room AND left the food cart in order for Paddock to break out that window and utilize the cart outside the door for his cameras.
Did Hodges keep the adjoining door unlocked? Because how would Paddock get into his hotel room through the adjoining door? If Paddock busted it open or shot it open, then why was it closed and locked when the swat team came and had to breach the door?
You’re putting a lot of stock and faith into believing Hodges had the correct room number or wasn’t lying.
I’m open to it being his room, but don’t dismiss the idea that the second window was indeed in Paddock’s room.
“It could have been moved by the Swat in front of the 32134 door...”
The camera wire goes under the 32134 door.
I’m not assuming anything about the food cart. I never claimed it was Hodge’s food cart.
I would guess that it probably WAS Paddock’s food cart, and that he probably positioned it in front of Hodge’s door when he set the camera because (1) we see it there (2) there are no bullet holes in the table cloth so it was not in front of Paddock’s door when he was firing through the door and (3) you can see in the video an electrical cord coming out from under Hodge’s door.
I have the same questions you do about whether the adjoining door was unlocked.
Hodge may be mistaken about the room number. But the same room number for him is given in multiple reports from different newspapers.
Where is the press on this point? Where is the reporting on whether Hodge really was in 32-134, or whether Paddock really rented TWO SEPARATE hotel rooms, both 32-134 and 32-135?
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