Brian Hodge’s room where the second window was broken out?? No that wasn’t his window. Paddock had the big suite and the smaller adjoining room next to the suite where he had a direct line at the fuel tanks. Pretty sure Hodge’s room was next to the smaller room Paddock had.
Layout of 32nd floor wing where Paddock had his two rooms:
https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/mandalay-bay-massacre-13-hotel.jpg
And maybe Paddock was not running back and forth, but a lot of people who have heard the shots including several at the concert say there were a few shots at first that sound as if they were at the fuel tanks/bouncing off them.
Then a pause, and the crowd starts getting sprayed.
Paddock could have started in the small room aiming at the fuel tanks, then when that was a bust he went to the larger adjoining suite shutting the door that adjoins both rooms behind him, locking it before closing it. And never went back into it again and stayed in the large suite shooting at the concert goers until he ended his own life.
Again it’s all speculation, but it would explain the pause between shots initially.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3592780/posts
See this thread which has Brian Hodge telling multiple reporters he was in 32-134 next door to the shooter, and has the video panning from 32-135 to the door of 32-134 with the food cart in front of it and the wire running from under the door of Brian Hodge’s room into the corridor.
That graphic indicating that Paddock had hired two rooms, 32-135 and 32-134 appears to be wrong.
Also, the reporting I read was that Paddock asked for the Vista suite (32-135) as a comp, was put in another room at first and then moved to the Vista suite when it opened up.
I haven’t seen anything solid that Paddock was comped TWO hotel rooms next to each other.
What he didn't know (from what I read) is that the fuel in those tanks don't blow easily.
