MEDIA & TIMELINES ONLY - Mandalay Bay mass shooting in Las Vegas, 1 October 2017

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Websleuths radio episode link. Oct. 8 show about the Vegas mass shooting. Features forensic psychologist and threat assessment expert, and a true crime investigative reporter and author.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/websle...-radio-sunday-oct-8th-2017mass-shooting-vegas

 

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Las Vegas shooting: What was Stephen Paddock's motive?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41518852

"Everyone has three lives," Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez once posited. "A public life, a private life and a secret life."

It remains unclear whether a secret life led Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old wealthy, retired accountant with a penchant for gambling, to open fire on a Las Vegas music festival crowd and kill 58 people and injure 500 others before turning the gun on himself.


Police are continuing to search for clues on what would trigger him to commit the deadliest US shooting in recent history.
"My hunch is there is a secret life here that will eventually be uncovered," said J Reid Meloy, a forensic psychologist at the University of California at San Diego who researches mass shootings.

 

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Las Vegas police: Security responded to door alarm, drew fire from killer


http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/06/us/las-vegas-shooting-investigation/index.html

(CNN)An open door a few rooms away from the Las Vegas suite of the man who was gunning down concertgoers at a music festival set off an alarm that prompted a response from a security guard, Clark County Undersheriff Kevin C. McMahill said Friday.

Authorities believe that the guard drew the attention of mass murderer Stephen Paddock away from the chaos below and toward the hallway outside his room.


The guard, Jesus Campos, was shot in the leg while checking on the alarm and according to a police-reported timeline, Paddock never fired on the crowd below again.

 

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Apologies that these story links aren't all in date/time order. Posting them as I find them.

Family of Las Vegas shooting victim seeks to freeze shooter’s assets

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime...oting-victim-seeks-to-freeze-shooters-assets/

Family lawyers for one of the victims who died in the shooting massacre outside Mandalay Bay filed court papers seeking to freeze the assets of the late shooter, Stephen Paddock.Henderson attorney Richard Chatwin said in the Family Court papers that he represents Travis Phippen, the son of John Phippen, who died in the shooting last Sunday at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival across from Mandalay Bay.
The elder Phippen, a 56-year-old father of six from Santa Clarita, California, was among 58 people killed by Paddock when he sprayed the concert with rifle fire from his 32nd-floor hotel room. Phippen had attended the concert with his son, who was shot in the arm during the attack.

 

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Lost items from Las Vegas shooting returned to some who fled

http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/cri...m-Las-Vegas-shooting-returned-to-12262253.php

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The abandoned baby strollers, shoes, phones, backpacks and purses strewn for days across the huge crime scene of the Las Vegas massacre were slowly being returned to their owners Sunday to become sad souvenirs of a horrific night.

One week ago, the same scene was home to a happy day of country music for 22,000 people at the Route 91 Harvest festival. A few hours later, when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd from the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel, killing 58 people, those thousands were left fleeing for their lives, with no care for the possessions they are now recollecting.

 

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Las Vegas Shooter’s Behavior Raised Some Red Flags, Casino Magnate Steve Wynn Says

http://fortune.com/2017/10/08/steve-wynn-stephen-paddock-las-vegas-shooting/

Casino magnate Steve Wynn said Sunday that even though Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock seemed like a “rational” man, some of his actions would have raised red flags at his properties.

Wynn — the CEO of Wynn Resorts, which owns several hotels in Las Vegas —said at his properties, an investigation is launched if someone puts “do not disturb” on a room for at least 12 hours.


“The scenario that we’re aware of would have indicated that he didn’t let anyone in the room for two or three days, that would have triggered a whole bunch of alarms here,” Wynn told Fox News’ Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.

“And we would have — on behalf of the guests, of course, investigated for safety and it would have been provocative situation. I’m sure that the same is true in other hotels but in this hotel, a 36-hour, a 24-hour, 36-hour ‘Do Not Disturb’ on a room is a predicate for investigation.”

 

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Las Vegas gunman seemed like 'a rational man,' Steve Wynn tells 'Fox News Sunday'

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/0...nal-man-steve-wynn-tells-fox-news-sunday.html

“We also have rules about do not disturb,” Wynn said. “If a room goes on do not disturb for more than 12 hours, we investigate. We constantly -- we don't allow guns in this building unless they're being carried by our employees and there's a lot of them. But if anybody's got a gun and we find them continually, we eject them from the hotel.”

 

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The Latest: Las Vegas gunman barricaded stairwell door

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/entertainment/article177634411.html

The Las Vegas gunman who killed 58 people from his hotel room barricaded shut a stairwell door on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay to keep officers at bay during his rampage.

 

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Las Vegas Officers Describe Finding an ‘Armory’ in Stephen Paddock’s Hotel Room


https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/l...inding-armory-stephen-paddock-s-hotel-n808886

The Las Vegas authorities who first entered the hotel room of the gunman responsible for the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history described finding what looked like "an armory" and a note with calculations to magnify the number of victims.

 

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https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/the-strip/las-vegas-police-say-stephen-paddocks-suv-found/

Las Vegas police say Stephen Paddock’s SUV found

Las Vegas police announced they found the Hyundai Tucson they had been seeking in connection with Sunday’s mass shooting investigation.

Metropolitan Police Department’s public information office announced the Hyundai Tucson with Nevada license plates 114B40 was found while executing the search warrant at shooter Stephen Paddock’s Reno house.

 

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Las Vegas gunman left behind trail of carnage and clues but no ‘clear motive or reason why’


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-but-no-clear-answers/?utm_term=.7c1a72946c7b

Investigators said Friday that after five days piecing together the story of Stephen Paddock, they remained at a loss for what may have motivated him to open fire from his Las Vegas hotel suite, gunning down 58 people at a country music festival and injuring hundreds more.

Police say they have looked into more than 1,000 leads. Authorities have delved into Paddock’s gun purchases, computers and travel plans, spoken to his relatives and traced his actions leading up to the shooting.

 

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The unknowable Stephen Paddock and the ultimate mystery: Why?


http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/06/us/unknowable-stephen-paddock-and-the-mystery-motive/index.html

Las VegasWhy did he do it?

Nearly a week after the worst mass shooting in modern US history, there's still no answer.


A shooter's reasons, however sick and twisted, usually become clear within a day or two. A suicide note, a manifesto, a series of social media screeds, a phone call -- even police reports and court dockets can provide insight into what drives a warped mind to commit such a violent act.

 

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Stephen Paddock: Las Vegas shooter was 'the king of microaggression', brother says

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...brother-shooter-background-life-a7987826.html

Stephen Paddock usually kept a cigar at hand, even though he did not smoke. But he was quick to notice when somebody sat down beside him and lit up.

Then Paddock, a denizen of hazy casinos, would take out his cigar, light it and carefully aim its smoke back into the faces of those whose puffing annoyed him.


“He was the king of microaggression,” his brother, Eric, said.

 

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Stephen Paddock: Motive of Las Vegas gunman may lie in his gambling habits


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen-paddock-motive-las-vegas-gunman-gambling-habits/

Nevada gambling regulators say they're sorting through documents for clues about him and his girlfriend, Marilou Danley. Those can include suspicious transaction or currency reports, as well as information from a player's rewards card, which the casinos use to track their gambling and offer perks.

Paddock's brother has described the gunman as a high-stakes video poker player who was routinely comped rooms, meals and drinks at casinos.


"He was a substantial gambler. It was a job to him," Eric Paddock said.

 

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Stephen Paddock: Vegas suspect a high-roller and 'psychopath'

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41472462

Stephen Paddock had a troubled childhood, with a bank robber for a father, who regularly beat him, and a mother who struggled to bring him and his three brothers up, according to reports.

One of the gunman's brothers, Eric Paddock, told reporters the family were stunned.


"He liked to play video poker," he said. "He went on cruises. He sent his mother cookies."

 

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Stephen Paddock’s God’s-Eye View from His Las Vegas Hotel Room

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/a...ods-eye-view-from-his-mandalay-bay-hotel-room

In our age of dark tourism, trying to see what a killer saw has become a kind of ritual—the view from the balcony of Ford’s Theatre, where John Wilkes Booth approached Abraham Lincoln from behind and put a gun to his head, on April 14, 1865; or from the tower at the University of Texas, where Charles Whitman, an architectural-engineering student and former marine sharpshooter, opened fire on the campus below, on August 1, 1966.

Growing up in Dallas, I visited the Texas Schoolbook Depository, the government building from which Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy, more times than I can count. I stood at the sixth-floor window where Oswald is said to have stood, looking down at the streets below—at Dealey Plaza, the triple underpass, the bridge, the live oaks, the rail yard, the grassy knoll.

 

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The Las Vegas shooter spent 3 days stockpiling weapons in a $500 suite on the 32nd floor — here's what the room is like


http://www.businessinsider.com/mandalay-bay-hotel-room-las-vegas-shooter-suite-2017-10

Based on the guest's video, it looks like Paddock stayed in a 1,705-square-foot "Vista" suite — a sprawling suite with wide windows looking out onto the Las Vegas Strip.

 

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Las Vegas shooting: Veterans, nurse and teachers among the dead


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41476879

Chris Roybal, 28, was a US Navy veteran from southern California who had recently returned from Afghanistan. In his last public Facebook post, back in July, he described what is was like to be shot at, and spoke of the feelings of anger engendered by conflict. His friend and fellow navy colleague Matthew Austin wrote on Facebook: "It breaks my heart and infuriates me that a veteran can come home from war unharmed and events like these occur."

'Son's passing has devastated all of us'

 

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Vegas shooting: Stephen Paddock booked hotel room overlooking Lollapalooza festival

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...icago-boston-locations-research-a7985001.html

More than a month before the Las Vegas mass shooting, a man believed to be the shooter booked a hotel room overlooking yet another popular music festival.

The Blackstone Hotel told The Independent that a man named Stephen Paddock had booked a room during the Lollapolooza festival, but failed to show up.


"We can confirm that a reservation was made under the name Stephen Paddock, however authorities have not confirmed that this is the same person as the Las Vegas shooter," a spokesperson for the hotel said. "We are cooperating with the authorities on this matter."

 

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Vegas shooting: Stephen Paddock's hotel neighbour 'thought gunshots were fireworks at first'


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...l-fireworks-gunshots-man-latest-a7985646.html

A Kansas man heard what he thought were fireworks late at night from his room in the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, but soon realised he was staying just one floor below the gunman, Stephen Paddock.

Floyd Conrade, of Emporia, was in town on a business trip when he saw and heard “debris” raining down from above just outside his room’s window, according to the Kansas City Star.


The debris was shards of glass from when Mr Paddock used what police said was a hammer-like tool to smash his windows in order to rain bullets down on the crowd of 22,000 people attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival.