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Video Shows Las Vegas Gunman Gambling, Eating Alone and Filling His Suite With Guns
nyt ^ | 3/22/2018 | vivian yee

Posted on 03/22/2018 1:17:33 PM PDT by bitt

Sometimes we see him as other hotel guests would have seen him: as the tall gambler intent on the video poker machine across the casino floor, or as the customer standing in line in front of you at the gift shop, buying snacks, or as the guy you briefly glance at as he waits for you to get off the elevator — polite, unhurried, unmemorable.

Sometimes we see him as the employees would have seen him, as the casually dressed V.I.P. with the many suitcases who jokes with bellhops, chats with valets and gives out tips along with handshakes. And sometimes we see him as only the surveillance cameras saw him — riding the elevator alone.

Within a few days, he would use the arsenal he had moved upstairs in those suitcases to shoot and kill 58 people from his 32nd-floor suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: lasvegas; lvmassacre; mandalaybay; nevada; paddock; paddockvideo
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To: WayneS

There is a video that shows him filling his suite with guns?
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Now, why would one person need that many guns to do what they say he did? I don’t believe it. Crazy cover story doesn’t add up.


41 posted on 03/22/2018 4:00:09 PM PDT by iontheball (lLL)
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To: eyeamok; DouglasKC; bitt
You can easily call this bullshit right now, that cart the employee was pushing would have weighed in at Hundreds of Pounds and he would NOT have pushed it with 2 fingers, NO WAY IN HELL!!!

It would not be that hard to do.

He had the room for two weeks if I remember right.

All he would have to do is split up the loads in to many trips.

If he made two trips a day, making sure that he brought in his suit cases on different shifts, he brings 2 or 3 suitcases to his room each shift with out arousing suspicions.

That is as many as six suitcases a day. With as much as 40 pounds per suit case that would be 240 pounds per day.

I think with in three days he could have had everything he needed.

42 posted on 03/22/2018 4:24:10 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: TallahasseeConservative

Wasn’t there like 400 to 500+ wounded? Luckily only 58 died.


43 posted on 03/22/2018 4:27:46 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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To: raygunfan
i found it highly interesting that this guy made how many trips out and back and kept bringing in bags, over and over and over...and this didnt give anyone pause??

He has been going to this casino for years. He probably figured out when the shift changes are.

He timed his trips to hit different shifts. If different people are there each time he came in the employees would assume he was just arriving.

44 posted on 03/22/2018 4:31:54 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: US_MilitaryRules

More transparency might make us trust government more. This stuff is kept under wraps until a narrative for the elites benefit’s concocted.


45 posted on 03/22/2018 4:33:14 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Political correctness should be defined as news media that exposes political corruption)
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To: editor-surveyor

I am not!


46 posted on 03/22/2018 4:47:57 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: jpl
Some highly-placed employee at MGM must have leaked this footage, because they’ve certainly been trying to keep a lid on it all this time!

It should be released, in totality by either the hotel or the police.

Anything less – and all this time– smacks of a coverup...

47 posted on 03/22/2018 5:02:09 PM PDT by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: All

The only possible scenario in which this Paddock guy did the shooting was if he got high on bad drugs and went nuts, because the evidence certainly seems to indicate that he was an arms dealer and was set up to make a big sale (or so he thought) at the hotel.

So if it wasn’t just him going off the deep end then it was most likely whoever was “buying” the weapons, for whatever reason, nothing but distraction from another event comes to mind, and as it turns out, that other event apparently did not happen (such as an associate killing a target while this was going on).

I wonder if we will ever get the real story, or who outside of a few agencies knows the real story.


48 posted on 03/22/2018 5:43:44 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (The president is a good man -- that's why they are out to get him -- where have we seen this before?)
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To: bitt

I think the shooter was laundering money for years. (Drugs lords, or Mob, or Terrorists). The quiet is a sure tip off that it was a terrorist related incident or another deranged liberal or both. Probably the last one.


49 posted on 03/22/2018 6:01:02 PM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: faithhopecharity
it doesn’t make sense for him to have more than, say, 2 firearms (the second as a spare), plus of course as much ammo as he planned to use

Makes no sense at all.

50 posted on 03/23/2018 8:39:14 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: faithhopecharity
and his Islamic, Middle-Eastern girlfriend has apparently dropped out of the news coverage (such little coverage as there is)

She was a Catholic Filipino.

51 posted on 03/23/2018 8:40:42 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: raygunfan
i found it highly interesting that this guy made how many trips out and back and kept bringing in bags, over and over and over...and this didnt give anyone pause??

The Mandalay Bay is a convention hotel. People working at an exhibition will routinely store expensive computers, guns, and other equipment in their hotel room before the show for safe keeping. It's quite common for Vegas for someone to haul a ton of stuff to their room.

52 posted on 03/23/2018 8:57:55 AM PDT by Gideon7
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