That’s a good point. He had a lot of cash and connections outside the country.
The Sheriff refused to elaborate on the escape plan.
What went wrong? Police got to the floor in 11 minutes. Or did he have a falling out with an accomplice and the accomplice turn him into the Patsy?
What went wrong? Police got to the floor in 11 minutes. Or did he have a falling out with an accomplice and the accomplice turn him into the Patsy?
There is speculation on 4chan and other forums that Paddock's escape plan was UP, not down.
The Four Seasons Hotel sits on top of Mandalay Bay and occupies the top floors of the building.
That hadn't occurred to me before, but it is interesting to contemplate.
The Sheriff said the evidence is that he had an escape plan. Mark Furhman speculated that police may have found a bug-out bag there.
The problem I had been having was how was he planning to escape? Was this 64-year-old guy with allergies planning to run down 32+ flights of stairs to the garage before police started coming up the stairwells?
But if he had to only go up a few flights to the Four Seasons, there might have been a plan that a second person would be there, perhaps an employee or someone else, to take him in. He could listen to the police scanner and only had to beat the cops by a couple of minutes if his plan was to escape up, not down.
I'm still troubled by the door being ajar when the security guard came upon the scene. It was not noise from shooting, but the door being ajar that keyed the security guard's interest in that room. So Paddock must have already stopped shooting out the window when the security guard stepped onto 32.
The two logical possibilities to my mind are (1) a second person ran out early, possibly up a few floors to the Four Seasons to position himself for Paddock's escape, ahead of the security guard and police getting there and left the door open or (2) Paddock was literally with bug-out bag in hand with the door open about to leave when the security guard came upon it.