Posted on 10/05/2017 4:03:02 AM PDT by markomalley
Three days after 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on Las Vegas concertgoers late Sunday night, several huge questions remain unanswered.
Clark Country Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said at a press conference Wednesday night that he assumes Paddock likely had help in carrying out his mass murder.
“You got to make the assumption he had to have help at some point, and we want to ensure that’s the answer,” Lombardo said. “Maybe he’s a super guy, super hero–not a hero, super–I won’t use the word. Maybe he’s super — that was working out this out on his own, but it will be hard for me to believe that.”
So far, there is no publicly available evidence that Paddock had help in carrying out his plot.
If, as the sheriff believes, Paddock had help, the question remains: from whom? Paddock’s longtime girlfriend, Marilou Danley, was in the Philippines at the time of the attack. She claims to have had no knowledge of Paddock’s murderous intentions.
Law enforcement officials discovered large quantities of bomb-making materials in Paddock’s car, which was parked at the Mandalay Bay hotel.
Lombardo told reporters on Monday that ammonium nitrate, a chemical compound used to make homemade bombs, was found in Paddock’s car. On Wednesday, Lombardo said that law enforcement officers also found 50 pounds of Tannerite, an explosive chemical, in Paddock’s car.
It’s unclear what Paddock ultimately aimed to do with the car full of bomb-making materials.
Sheriff Lombardo said Wednesday night that he has reason to believe that Paddock originally planned to remain alive or escape after carrying out the mass murder.
Paddock committed suicide after detecting an unarmed security guard outside his room.
How did he plan to escape? That question remains unanswered.
Paddock purchased a room at the Ogden Las Vegas during another music festival, Life Is Beautiful, the previous weekend.
Paddock’s room at the Ogden, like his room at the Mandalay Bay, overlooked the concert venue.
Was the Ogden room a practice run for Sunday night’s massacre? Was it a target? “We don’t know yet,” Lombardo said.
The biggest question in the wake of the shooting: Why did he do it?
More than 72 hours after the deadliest mass shooting in American history, the public still has no answer for why Paddock did what he did.
His neighbors in Florida said he just seemed like a normal person of his age. They also said he wasn't there that much.
He may already have been living in Nevada for all practical purposes, in apartments or houses that he acquired as investments, and only needed to move his stuff out of the Florida place to where he was already living.
We don’t know the names, but youtube has the interview with a 21 year old girl that said a spanish couple was removed from the venue for scaring the front row of people telling them they were “all going to die”. Maybe they had revelation or were psychic or were aware, your choice. This was some minutes before the shooting started. The girl left the venue and got back to her hotel before the shooting erupted.
I don't either. I swear, some people here have never been to a hotel before. You wheel a luggage caddy out to your car, load it up, wheel it to the elevator, to your room, and unload it. Really not much effort.
Sounds like mine, but it was not bought for theft protection, but to young to teach child protection. Unlike these stupid people who leave Illegal guns lying around under couches/cushions where small children can and do find and shoot some other child often a sibling, I don’t want my to young to teach gun safety grands, and g. grands to have access to mine.
Your too hard on yourself for trolling .take up another hobby
Paddock’s longtime girlfriend, Marilou Danley, was in the Philippines at the time of the attack. She claims to have had no knowledge of Paddock’s murderous intentions.
PLEASE. What else is she going to say? “Yes I could tell he was planning something big and I was outa there.” So she goes down for 58 counts of murder?? WHAT ELSE IS THIS WOMAN GOING TO SAY?
There is a guy here who references a video the shooter made during the mass murder. I think it was also LVPD, his source. That there was a male accomplice. That they had a motive. I have no idea how true this could even be.
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