NV - 59 Dead, over 500 injured in Mandalay Bay shooting in Las Vegas, 1 Oct 2017 #10

[IceIce9]

I’m watching the documentary on the Las Vegas shooting on Paramount.

Las Vegas shooting: '11 Minutes' docuseries details events of deadliest US shooting in history | Fox News

A new documentary series details first-person stories of heroism from the night of the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting in Las Vegas.

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The video footage is incredibly intense.

Las Vegas mass shooting survivors tell their own story in '11 minutes' documentary

The new four-hour Paramount+ documentary is told mostly through cellphone videos and police body cams. It is surprisingly not gruesome — the visuals are selected and edited very judiciously.

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There's no host, no narrator and, for the first two hours, virtually no footage from TV news stations. Instead the story is told by interviews with survivors of the event — people who were there as musicians, fans, police, paramedics, nurses, doctors, and so on. And it's told mostly through cellphone videos and police body cams — images taken by people in the midst of the attack, as it was happening. And a lot of people had their phone cameras running

 

[watergirl62]

MGM Resorts sells land that was site of Las Vegas massacre

MGM Resorts International has sold land on the Las Vegas Strip that was the site of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history

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[margarita25]

MGM Resorts sells land that was site of Las Vegas massacre

MGM Resorts International has sold land on the Las Vegas Strip that was the site of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history

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From the above link:

MGM Resorts International has sold land on the Las Vegas Strip that was the site of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history​

ByThe Associated Press
December 30, 2022

“The 15-acre Village property was purchased by the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation based in central North Dakota.”

 

[Eli9]

FBI documents give new view into Las Vegas shooter's mindset

A trove of FBI documents made public this week offers a new view into high-stakes gambler Stephen Paddock’s mindset before he carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern America. Sixty people were killed and hundreds more were wounded in the shooting on Oct. 1, 2017, on the Las Vegas...

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[arielilane]

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FBI docs reveal details about 2017 Las Vegas shooter

FBI docs reveal details about 2017 Las Vegas shooter

More than 1,000 rounds were fired from a Mandalay Bay hotel room at Route 91 Harvest Festival concertgoers on Oct. 1, 2017

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FBI, Metro statement: 'do not believe they will shed new light in the case'

 

[thefragile7393]

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FBI docs reveal details about 2017 Las Vegas shooter

FBI docs reveal details about 2017 Las Vegas shooter

More than 1,000 rounds were fired from a Mandalay Bay hotel room at Route 91 Harvest Festival concertgoers on Oct. 1, 2017

www.newsnationnow.com

FBI, Metro statement: 'do not believe they will shed new light in the case'

Interesting. Yeah there's a whole lot of nothing there with all those redactions. Some interesting things mentioned but...overall yeah, I agree there isn't much new light shed.

 

[Betty P]

Interesting. Yeah there's a whole lot of nothing there with all those redactions. Some interesting things mentioned but...overall yeah, I agree there isn't much new light shed.

Anything new about him at all?

JMO, he always struck me as a guy with OCD/Aspergers with classic grievance collector issues. He was a jerk who made some money and used it to manipulate and control other people in his life. Just a jerk, basically, thinking he was the smartest man in the room and let people know it. When his skills began to decline and he didn't get as much respect and special treatment from the hotels, he took revenge, went out with a flash. Like most mass murderers, he wanted lots of media attention, but zero empathy for the people he was killing.

He also had such an awful personality, its highly unlikely he collaborated with or followed orders from anyone for any particular mission.

Hotels handled the situation and the PR badly, but it could have been worse.

JMO, other than the horrendous deaths of so many innocent people, the worst thing was that our country allows people like him to acquire the weapons, ammo, etc. to inflict this kind of horror on the public.

 

[Jinkasaurus]

I agree he fits the classic injustice collector profile. No conspiracy here IMO. This is an article about a different case, but it does a good job elucidating the injustice collector concept - Inside the Warped Mind of Vester Flanagan and Other Shooters -its by Dave Cullen, the author of the book Colombine

 

[Betty P]

I agree he fits the classic injustice collector profile. No conspiracy here IMO. This is an article about a different case, but it does a good job elucidating the injustice collector concept - Inside the Warped Mind of Vester Flanagan and Other Shooters -its by Dave Cullen, the author of the book Colombine

From the article about FBI files linked above:

According to the FBI documents, “Paddock was very upset at the way casinos were treating him and other high rollers.”

A gambler who knew Paddock told the FBI he believed “the stress over that treatment could easily be what caused Paddock to ‘snap.'”

The gambler, whose name was redacted from the document, told the FBI that in recent years casinos used to give high rollers like Paddock free cruises, airline flights, penthouse suites, and other perks but in recent years had cut back on those.

It seems plausible this could set him off. As your link to the article by Dave Cullen, it mentions that injustice collectors seldom act on impulse. They plan their revenge carefully.

 

[whatsupp]

I agree he fits the classic injustice collector profile. No conspiracy here IMO. This is an article about a different case, but it does a good job elucidating the injustice collector concept - Inside the Warped Mind of Vester Flanagan and Other Shooters -its by Dave Cullen, the author of the book Colombine

That's an enormous amount of money to lose. I'd love to know his overall net worth at the time and any other factors that could have driven him to commit this act.

Did the police release.any records of his data from phones, computer, etc?

 

[whatsupp]

I agree he fits the classic injustice collector profile. No conspiracy here IMO. This is an article about a different case, but it does a good job elucidating the injustice collector concept - Inside the Warped Mind of Vester Flanagan and Other Shooters -its by Dave Cullen, the author of the book Colombine

That's an enormous amount of money to lose. I'd love to know his overall net worth at the time and any other factors that could have driven him to commit this act.

Did the police release.any records of his data from phones, computer, etc?

 

[KooshBall]

I'm not sure if this ever made national news, but last year a California man was arrested before he was able to carry out his plan for another mass shooting in Las Vegas, planned for September 30th, inspired by the Mandalay Bay shooting.

DA: Butte County man's mass shooting plot, 'hit list' released

The Butte County District Attorney said a man intended to kill people on his "hit list" in Chico and plotted to commit a mass shooting in Las Vegas on Sept.

www.actionnewsnow.com

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Families of people killed in the Las Vegas Strip massacre in October 2017 will receive shares of almost all the $1.4 million estate of the man who unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history and killed himself before police reached him, according to a probate case that ended Thursday in Nevada.

In the next several weeks, a total of almost $1.3 million will be distributed to the families of 61 victims of the shooting, said Alice Denton, the Las Vegas attorney who handled the case with her partner, Jarien Cho, at no cost to the estate of the gunman, Stephen Paddock.

“We have done what we set out to do,” Denton said of the more than five-year process to appraise, sell and distribute proceeds from Paddock's assets, including two homes and an investment property in Nevada, a vehicle and 49 guns.

“We worked to ensure that the victims' families received the most that they could,” Denton told The Associated Press. “The guns were destroyed, and the funds will be distributed to the families of the deceased victims according to the direction of the shooter's mother. None of the money is going to anyone in the Paddock family."

Families of Las Vegas mass shooting victims to split shooter's estate

Families of people killed in the Las Vegas Strip massacre in October 2017 will receive almost all of the $1.4 million estate of the man who unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. histor…

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[Betty P]

Families of people killed in the Las Vegas Strip massacre in October 2017 will receive shares of almost all the $1.4 million estate of the man who unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history and killed himself before police reached him, according to a probate case that ended Thursday in Nevada.

In the next several weeks, a total of almost $1.3 million will be distributed to the families of 61 victims of the shooting, said Alice Denton, the Las Vegas attorney who handled the case with her partner, Jarien Cho, at no cost to the estate of the gunman, Stephen Paddock.

“We have done what we set out to do,” Denton said of the more than five-year process to appraise, sell and distribute proceeds from Paddock's assets, including two homes and an investment property in Nevada, a vehicle and 49 guns.

“We worked to ensure that the victims' families received the most that they could,” Denton told The Associated Press. “The guns were destroyed, and the funds will be distributed to the families of the deceased victims according to the direction of the shooter's mother. None of the money is going to anyone in the Paddock family."

Families of Las Vegas mass shooting victims to split shooter's estate

Families of people killed in the Las Vegas Strip massacre in October 2017 will receive almost all of the $1.4 million estate of the man who unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. histor…

www.rgj.com

Glad to hear that the guns were destroyed.

The amount isn't much when divided among the families of so many victims, but they deserve that and more.

 

[arielilane]

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The estate of Stephen Paddock, who carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, has been sold off by court order and the proceeds will be divided among the loved ones of the victims he killed in 2017, an attorney for the victims said.

Guns belonging to Las Vegas massacre shooter destroyed, property sold with proceeds to be divided among victims' families

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Paddock’s heir — his mother — waived her rights to inherit anything from her son, as noted in a court filing reassigning her rights to the estates of the victims.

CNN previously reported 58 people died in the shooting. Denton said two more died later, but she could not comment on the final victim of the 61 named in the petition. The official list of victims’ names remains under seal.

In 2019, an anonymous donor gave $62,500 to cover the estimated value of Paddock’s weapons on the condition they be demolished.

Of the 49 guns Paddock owned, 13 have been retained by the FBI and the rest were destroyed, said Denton, who shepherded the case pro bono.

Keeping the guns out of the community was an important factor for Denton, who estimates that it cost her small firm about $200,000 in fees. “If we saved one life it was worth it,” she said.

 

[Eli9]

Kind of a disjointed article

Ex-convict's letters to shooter foretold Las Vegas massacre

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Letters addressing the gunman who in October 2017 unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in Las Vegas, apparently written by an ex-convict who lived in Texas, foretold the carnage to come, according to documents obtained Friday.

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Letters addressing the gunman who in October 2017 unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in Las Vegas, apparently written by an ex-convict who lived in Texas, foretold the carnage to come, according to documents obtained Friday.

“My friend it sound like you are going to kill or murder someone or some people,” said a handwritten letter to Stephen Paddock dated June 1, 2017, and signed Jim Nixon. Addressed “Dear Steve,” it said, “Please don’t go on any shooting rampage like some fool.”

“I am concern about the way you are talking and believe you are going to do something very bad,” said another letter, dated May 27, 2017, that was among 10 unredacted documents released by Las Vegas police. Letters dating to 2013 and 2014 described the men doing business together.

“Please don’t go out shooting or hurting people who did nothing to you,” the May 27 letter pleaded. “Steve please please don’t do what I think you are going to do.”
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He also apparently scoped out large gatherings in at least four cities as potential targets, investigators said at the time, and booked rooms overlooking a Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago in August 2017 and a Life is Beautiful show in Las Vegas several weeks before executing his plan.

 

[Lyall0814]

There's a documentary about this starting on the BBC right now called '11 minutes'

 

[Gophers_FTW]

Kind of a disjointed article

Ex-convict's letters to shooter foretold Las Vegas massacre

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Letters addressing the gunman who in October 2017 unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in Las Vegas, apparently written by an ex-convict who lived in Texas, foretold the carnage to come, according to documents obtained Friday.

apnews.com

Letters addressing the gunman who in October 2017 unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in Las Vegas, apparently written by an ex-convict who lived in Texas, foretold the carnage to come, according to documents obtained Friday.

“My friend it sound like you are going to kill or murder someone or some people,” said a handwritten letter to Stephen Paddock dated June 1, 2017, and signed Jim Nixon. Addressed “Dear Steve,” it said, “Please don’t go on any shooting rampage like some fool.”

“I am concern about the way you are talking and believe you are going to do something very bad,” said another letter, dated May 27, 2017, that was among 10 unredacted documents released by Las Vegas police. Letters dating to 2013 and 2014 described the men doing business together.

“Please don’t go out shooting or hurting people who did nothing to you,” the May 27 letter pleaded. “Steve please please don’t do what I think you are going to do.”
...
He also apparently scoped out large gatherings in at least four cities as potential targets, investigators said at the time, and booked rooms overlooking a Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago in August 2017 and a Life is Beautiful show in Las Vegas several weeks before executing his plan.

This story is bizarre. The supposed friend and business partner has a serious credibility problem.

"And when questioned by reporters about the supposed correspondence, Nixon repeatedly changed his account of when and how he met Paddock. In an April 14 interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nixon said he initially met Paddock in Virginia 10 to 12 years before the mass shooting. Eleven days later, he said he met Paddock while fishing at Lake Mead in 2009 or 2010."

Questions remain about ex-con’s friendship with Las Vegas mass shooter

Jimmy Nixon spent 16 years in prison for fraud, and he’s changed his account of when and how he met Stephen Paddock several times.

www.reviewjournal.com

Then in this story, it says Nixon met Paddock "at a California truck stop in 2011."

'Please don't hurt innocent people': Letters from friend to 1 October gunman reflect anger, fear

Jim Nixon, an ex-convict who lives in Texas, spoke with Channel 13 about the letters he sent to Stephen Paddock in the months leading up to the worst mass shooting in modern American history.

www.ktnv.com

Hopefully there will be a follow-up to these stories eventually.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

“I will not lie that this has been a simple process, because it hasn’t,” committee member Mynda Smith said through tears. “But at the end of the day, I know this will become something of beauty and healing and love.”

Smith’s sister, Neysa Tonks, a 46-year-old mother of three from Las Vegas, was killed in the shooting.

Another committee member, Karessa Royce, was among the more than 850 others who were injured in the attack. A junior at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, at the time of the shooting, she said her work on the committee helped guide her through the aftermath.

“When I woke up in the hospital in 2017 the day after the shooting, I never could’ve imagined the journey we’d be on together,” Royce said, her voice cracking as she clutched a tissue in her hand.

“This was a job that was far bigger than those of us sitting up here,” she said.

The memorial design is the work of local firm JCJ Architecture, chosen from five proposals unveiled last month at an exhibit in downtown Las Vegas.

It envisions a park in the shape of an infinity symbol on the northeast corner of the concert venue where the festival was held, and 22,000 lights for the number of concertgoers that night. A looping path will take visitors through a garden area, past a 58-foot (18-meter) glass tower and to a “remembrance ring” with the 58 candles. Each beam will display the name and a photo of a victim.

The alternate design features 15 large horse statues representing the home states and countries of the victims, as well as two smaller horses in honor of the dozens of children whose parents were killed.

Design for Las Vegas Strip mass shooting memorial features a garden path and 58 beams of light

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Fifty-eight towering, candlelike beams will cast a blanket of warm light on visitors in the design concept chosen Wednesday at an emotional meeting of a committee tasked with creat…

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[arielilane]

As we remember those we lost on 10/1/17 and since, we are thankful for our community and the support we feel every day. We thank our firefighters and all our fellow first responders for their strong spirits and caring hearts We are #vegasstronger

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