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 share your skepticism that a 64-year old retired accountant millionaire who liked Pepsi with his cheeseburger and bagel who “acquired guns for decades” and made money playing video friggin poker and had medical issues could muster the effort to fire hundreds of accurate rounds of automatic fire at night through broken windows 32-stories above the Las Vegas strip amid acrid smoke for 10-12 minutes.
My theory continues that Paddock was a sophisticated gun dealer whose unsavory cash customer killed him, then used Paddocks “sales samples” to unleash hell last Sunday night. Just my two cents.
Yeah, I know. Just saying what I had read in a one of the reports. But if it was suicide, why did he do it after he had neutralized the security guard?
I wonder if he had that sighted in.
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