Posted on 10/13/2017 1:31:32 PM PDT by JP1201
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Las Vegas investigators offered a new version of events Friday in a shifting timeline surrounding the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history as they described how the gunman opened fire on nearby airport jet fuel tanks and on police officers arriving at the massacre.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo held a highly anticipated news conference alongside the top FBI agent in Las Vegas amid questions about whether police could have done more to stop gunman Stephen Paddock on Oct. 1.
They provided no new information about Paddock's motivation as he killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 at a country music festival. Forty-five people remain hospitalized in critical condition, Lombardo said.
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Freaking unbelievable.
There are high-def security cameras on every floor of the middle class apartment building I live in!
Great point about the girlfriends
I’m convinced they’re covering something up now.
This whole case is BS!
“My brother-in-law pilot of a single engine, piston driven aircraft. He had to know the difference between Jet-A and AvGas.”
So is my dad, my mom, my sister and lots of other people. I had ground school and only lack a bit more flight time to get my own ticket. So what. No where in that training was the flash point temp of Jet A. They teach you useful things like how to read weather charts and how to file a flight plan.
Knowing which fuel to pump into your plane and knowing how to make a tank of them go *boom* is not the same thing.
Before long we’ll find out the shooting hasn’t happened yet.
I don’t think he was firing at the tanks. Ppl crashed the fence around the airport and headed for the swales between the taxiways because they were being fired on.
An employee at the airport told a friend passing thru to a connecting flight that the terminal was hit and maintenance men had to ‘fix it’. If you’re sitting on the tarmack at the terminal, the hotel is very prominent.
Who was flying in or out that night? Paddock wasn’t ready. He was still drilling. His plans were for later that night imo The concert was almost over - maybe 30 minutes more?
the hotel is disputing the timeline now - says there was no 6 minute gap
Wow. I don’t believe any of this.
So... he hated fuel tanks?
I don’t know what to believe from TV News, and some law enforcement, anymore.
Just conversing.
The theory is that the plan (probably including more people than just Paddock) was to set the jet fuel on fire (tanks followed by underground lines), which would have caused explosion and destruction. The crowd would run away in the direction of the Mandalay Bay and be sitting ducks for a sniper.
I read that incendiary rounds had been found on the ground near the tanks, and we know that there were bullet holes in the skin of the tanks.
The big question is whether Paddock was pitching a one-man hissy fit or whether he was part of a larger plan with others who planned to use the distractive commotion from sniper and explosion to carry out something else.
If he did have collaborators, they let him down big time.
And the mystery of Jesus Campos continues.
One part about the timeline that I don't understand... I have heard that Aldean was on his third song, and I have also heard that he was on his last song. Which was it? Was the show just starting or just about to end? If Paddock wasn't ready yet (still drilling), then what was the plan for after the show was over and people had emptied out of the venue?
He was “insulted” by those who question their story so far.
I don’t care.
He said there was no evidence of any political or religious motive.
I don’t believe him.
He was involved in the Bunkerville fiasco.
I don’t trust him.
The LEOs can’t get the time nor their story straight and phones with videos turned over to them are coming back with the videos erased. Sounds like a cover up.
I just read an article about the guard leaving before a press conference and there was an image of the guard. When I saw the picture first thing I noticed was his beard.
And they wonder why there are conspiracy theories
That makes sense if we can get past reports that he bought guns in his name and passed background checks. But we don't yet know about all those rifles in the room. And they must know that by now.
not sure. I did read a blip that one of the previous performers was coming up to do a duet on the next song and so was waiting backstage? maybe that would have been the finale? or, probably, one more after that?
The audio from these videos is about the only near real info available to the general public.
If the plan was to have people run to the mandalay to be sitting ducks, there were ppl on the street and at the bus stop in front of the Mandalay. There were cabs that weren’t under the canopy. A bus came by and picked up the bus stop people. (!!)
What the map above needs, is to define the location of the first injuries after the first volley that smoked the stage equipment. Was he strafing the crowd with precision or was he adjusting his crappy aim in spite of alleged calculations?
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