Posted on 10/01/2017 10:50:18 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Just breaking. A lot of repots on Twitter from people.
True Pundit reported this:
An active shooter reportedly on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay bar Hotel in Las Vegas has gunned down at least one police officer and others.
Ditto ....
I hope that they make her famous. Pictures and everything. Make her scared to show her face.
The brother of the Las Vegas shooter said that he was a normal guy who must have ‘snapped’ before carrying out the worst mass shooting in American history.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Eric Paddock said that ‘something happened’ to make his brother Stephen kill at least 50 people and injure 200.
Eric said that there was ‘absolutely no indication he could do something like this’ and said that Stephen had no political or religious affiliation.
He said: ‘He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something’.
Speaking from his home in Orlando, Florida, Eric said: ‘We know absolutely nothing, this is just, we are dumbfounded.
‘We have absolutely no idea. Our condolences go to the victims and all their families’.
Eric said that he and Stephen, 64, lived on different coasts - Stephen’s last address was in Mesquite, Nevada - and that they did not speak that often.
He said that his mother was ‘in shock’ and struggling to cope with the news.
He said: ‘Our family is OK, we’re sitting in here in our house hoping that everyone doesn’t attack us.
‘My mother is 90 years old, lives down the street from me, we’re just completely dumbfounded
You can imagine how this is affected her.
‘He’s my brother, we don’t have a very close relationship but we talk occasionally. There’s no rhyme or reason here, it makes no sense’.
He said: ‘She has nothing to do with this, at least from my perspective.
‘He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something, he was just a guy.
‘He has no political affiliation, no religious affiliation, as far as we know. This wasn’t a terror attack’.
News saying “no security screening in the hotel”.
Remember way back when everyone thought the Texas Tower massacre was a big deal.
Presser now: more than 8 guns (10 rifles), 2 “platforms” + “cameras to see first responders”
Couldn’t agree more.
Interesting ... would be a start to know if paddock was renter of room
“What was Mandalay Bay’s security doing during all this?” - -
I suspect there’s not a whole lot hotel dicks can do in a situation like this, other than to see to the safety of guests and pray the SWAT team gets there fast.
I bet there will be empty seats at NFL this weekend.
“He snapped”. Right.
ATF killed 76 at Waco TX
I awoke at 5AM and have been watching since 5:15. I don’t usually get up that early, but for some reason I did this morning. Shocking.
I suspect that Mandalay would have a more sophisticated set up than a couple of hotel dicks. I was thinking less about stopping the perp than collecting and disseminating info to LE, protecting guests, assisting evac. And I suppose it was too much to hope that a proactive security team catch the perp before he could do anything. Ex: a guest who refuses maid service for days should at least rate a visit from security, a knock on the door inquiring if everything was ok.
Even the completely clueless must realize that this was planned.
Plannned, pre-meditated, lots of time commitment, heavily armed attack.
Also checked in last Thursday. So there should be plenty of video of him the last four days.
The country music festival was a three day event, the attack occurred at end of the last act.
He was in the room since September 28...plenty of time to ‘set up’.
We have our explanation. The reported perp was a “Florida man”:
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