Posted on 10/07/2017 4:36:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Police found a note in the hotel room of Stephen Paddock, the gunman behind the mass shooting in Las Vegas, that had hand-written calculations about where he needed to aim to kill as many people as possible.
In an interview that will be aired Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes," Officer Dave Newton from the Las Vegas Police Department's K-9 unit said he noticed a note on the shooter's bedside table after officers entered the room. The note was next to one of the windows that Paddock smashed with a hammer to clear an opening to fire into the crowd from his 32nd-floor hotel suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
"I could see on it he had written the distance, the elevation he was on, the drop of what his bullet was gonna be for for the crowd," Newton said. "So he had had that written down and figured out so he would know where to shoot to hit his targets from there."
Using semi-automatic rifles that he modified with a "bump stop" to increase their rate of fire, Paddock on Oct. 1 killed 58 people and injured nearly 500 others. Paddock, 64, killed himself with a gun before police entered the room to find his body and 47 weapons.
More than 20,000 people were attending the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival when Paddock began shooting into the crowd, which was about 400 yards away.
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I believe he picked his position during his previous trip...not while he was at the Mandalay.
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what previous trip and to where?
I imagine anyone with firearm during a mass shooting event would've been immediately shot by the police. Or shot by another country music lover who went to his car to get his gun.
Trip advisor has some pics of the Vista suites and the hotel site also has a virtual tour.
Something about this shooting that is so different is the distance Paddock was from his victims. He was so far away, could he even see the mayhem he had unleashed?
At Bataclan or Pulse, the shooters were close enough to look the people they were murdering in the eyes and to see the blood draining out of them. Paddock was 400 yards away and 32 stories high. The people he was shooting at must've barely appeared as ants at that distance. It was almost as if he was detached from the event itself, just spraying lead out into a crowd, oblivious to the carnage it was causing as it landed. At any rate, he was dead before he even knew what the body count was.
Does anyone happen to know what became of the money robbed from banks by the shooters father? Has that money been accounted for?
500 yards with a 6.5 creedmoor is very easy, assuming you weren’t ducking behind cover. You make it sound like you need years of spec ops training for that. I can show someone how to do that in an hour.
I believe he was only shot once, self inflicted, through the mouth.
In the death picture there was blood on his shirt around the lower sternum, and also on his right hand and on the revolver. (S&W mod 642?).
This seems consistent with him sitting upright, shooting through the roof of the mouth. After the shot, blood ran out of the wound onto his shirt, hand and gun. Then he fell over backwards with the gun resting in/near his hand in the middle of his chest.
When the police cleared the room, they moved the gun away a few feet as evidenced by the photo.
I see nothing to indicate a chest shot.
FReegards.
I calculated an approx 16.44 degree down angle. I guessed elevation of 118 yards for the 32nd floor. This was based on high rise estimation -- I do not recall the link.
tan(theta) = 118.0/400.0 # for 400 yards Using python.math package: >>> import math >>> math.degrees(math.atan(118.0/400.0)) 16.436059224635645
Shooting Uphill/Downhill by Maj. John L. Plaster, USAR (Ret)
Sierra shows a drop of 50 inches for a 55gr bullet at 400 yards (muzzle velocity 3000fps -- for a 16" barrel).
15 Degrees: Drop Inches x .034 = 1.7 inches
Up/down angle impact is insignificant.
here some more stuff. it might be posted already but I didn’t see it:
Here is the timeline the sheriff’s department released:
10:05 p.m.: First shots fired by the suspect. This was seen on closed-circuit television from the concert venue.
10:12 p.m.: First two officers arrive on the 31st floor and announce the gunfire is coming from directly above them.
10:15 p.m.: The last shots are fired from the suspect per body-worn cameras.
10:17 p.m.: The first two officers arrive on the 32nd floor.
10:18 p.m.: Security officer tells LVMPD officers he was shot and gives exact location of the suspect’s room.
10:26-10:30 p.m.: Eight additional officers arrive on the 32nd floor and begin to move systematically down the hallway, clearing every room and looking for any injured people. They move this way because they no longer hear the gunfire of an active shooter.
10:55 p.m.: Eight officers arrive in the stairwell at the opposite end of the hallway nearest to the suspect’s room.
11:20 p.m.: The first breach is set off and officers enter the room. They observe the suspect down on the ground and also see a second door that could not be accessed from their position.
11:27 p.m.: The second breach is set off, allowing officers to access the second room. Officers quickly realize there is no one else in the rooms and announce over the radio that the suspect is down.
The writer of this story assumes something that I have not seen proven so far, i.e. that Paddock shot and injured “ nearly 500 others (people).”
Yes, he facilitated injuries through the panic that ensued as the people fled the concert site, but he did NOT shoot 500 people. Sadly he killed 58 and critically wounded at least 50 (stated figures so far), but I have not seen any background of the wounds/injuries.
If anyone has, please supply it here. IT should read as:
Shot (total) -—
Killed (total) - 58 (so far, more possibly due to fatal wounds)
Wounded by gunfire -— (at least 50 were reported in critical condition a couple days ago). —
Injured by falls, trampled, etc -—
TOTAL NUMBER OF WOUNDED/INJURED - approximately 558 (will probably need a revision).
I hate when writers/reporters distort the English language to make a story “hot”.
The most stupid example is “The police found a dead body ...”
If it is a “body” that was found, then the person was dead. Otherwise they would write “The police found a wounded/injured/missing person”.
I read where 314 people were treated and released. I’m guessing a lot of those might be from the falls and such (several photos of gals with bloodied knees, etc.) Not sure if a broken bone gets you treated and released. Perhaps it does when another 200 have much more serious wounds.
70 inches at 400 yards??? What do load with, 50% corn starch???
Spring loaded center punch works awesome.
Some are shooters, some could be with practice, others just talk smack.
Jackpot! Money Laundering Through Online Gambling?
Paddock was an IRS agent. He would know how to loaunder money. And how old when he "retired"? based on his current age of 64, it appears that he somehow retired well before most civil servants.
Amateurs with rifles could easily have hit windows the gunman was not using. Nice pipe dream though.
It makes no sense that he killed himself what would have been worse than a shot to the head? Why would he have stopped shooting until he was killed?
The horrible thing about automatic rounds is they’re almost impossible to tell from regular ones!
If people wanted to carry weapons into these events there would be zero security. One would not know if the carrier was a law-abiding citizen or jihadist.
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