If you go to the “cab driver video” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5wtLXiqwHQ
and listen near the beginning, at the very *least* this is evidence that Paddock was switching between windows. The cabbie even says, “now it seems like it’s coming from far away.” Yes, after the nearby, much-louder burst, you do hear a matching echo. Then there is some silence, and then you hear only the “far away” sounding shots, which are clearly not echoes.
There are only two explanations for this: 1. The louder shots are out of the side of the hotel that the cabbie is located on, so the shots seems much louder, whereas the “far away” shots are out of the adjacent side of the hotel, thus muting the sound somewhat, or 2. there were two shooters, and one of them was possibly on a much lower floor.
I personally don’t think the light in the lower window later on is muzzle flash. There are a couple over ways to debunk this, but one of the easiest (and I have not tried this :-) is to use a map and figure out where the cab is when the “muzzle flashes” are seen. *IF* the cab is not between Mandalay Bay and Route 91 concert, it cannot be muzzle flashes, unless some wildcard was shooting in some other direction.
>>and listen near the beginning, at the very *least* this is evidence that Paddock was switching between windows.
Yep - as I discussed here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3591832/posts?page=99#99
“1. The louder shots are out of the side of the hotel that the cabbie is located on, so the shots seems much louder, whereas the far away shots are out of the adjacent side the hotel, thus muting the sound somewhat”
That concurs with what we see and hear.
At 1:07 a 13 round burst begins from what sounds like the NEAR window followed by a matching echo from 1:09 to 1:11
At 1:12 a longer burst begins from the what sounds like the same window - however, instead of the clean matching echo like in the first instance, there seems to be another pattern of reports, which are more muffled, like they're coming from the FAR window, at the same time.
Something is different. Maybe he's simply firing at a different target along a path that contains more/different reflective objects., or maybe the longer burst, which is almost twice as long, saturates the natural echo chamber with more sound... creating a persistent effect from 1:14 to 1:19
The sequence from 1:19 to 1:21 seems to be a final echo of the initial 1:12 burst - but the delay, and what's going on between 1:14 and 1:19 is really odd.
1 guy can't be in the two windows at the same time. Probably just an accoustical anomoly, right?