The giant jet fuel tank struck by rifle fire during the deadly Strip mass shooting has been drained and McCarran International Airport officials are close to hiring a safety expert to inspect it.
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Every mass-casualty event attracts its share of crackpots, and the Oct. 1 attack in Las Vegas is no different. But the flow of “fake news” about the shooting exceeds anything Sheriff Joe Lombardo has seen in other high-profile cases.
“You immediately think you’re gonna know the reasons why in the short term. Now, here we are a week after the fact and we still don’t know,”Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said during a Las Vegas Review-Journal interview Tuesday.
MGM Resorts International on Thursday released a new timeline of the events leading up to the Las Vegas Strip massacre, further challenging the sheriff’s latest account ahead of a planned Friday briefing.
In a statement released late Tuesday, MGM Resorts International disputed Sheriff Joe Lombardo’s revised timeline of the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the Strip.
Despite Mandalay Bay shooter Stephen Paddock’s well-documented gambling history, he had no known gambling debts, Sheriff Joe Lombardo said in an extensive interview Tuesday with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Las Vegas police released new details Monday about what occurred in the days and minutes before the mass shooting on the Strip, raising new questions about why it took about an hour for officers to enter the gunman’s hotel suite.
Just as the Sandy Hook school shooting prompted efforts to regulate gun policies in Nevada in 2013, the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 will likely result in a new push when the Legislature convenes in 2019.
Officials on Sunday are expected to announce the process for Route 91 Harvest Festival concertgoers to retrieve their abandoned property.
An explosive compound known as Tannerite was found in Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock’s car and home is believed to have previously been used in an alleged terrorist bombing in New York City.
Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani said Thursday she would seek a security review of the jet fuel tanks targeted Sunday by Las Vegas Strip mass murderer Stephen Paddock.
Las Vegas Strip mass murderer Stephen Paddock used his Mandalay Bay hotel room to spray massive aviation fuel tanks with bullets Sunday night, a knowledgeable source told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The Mandalay Bay security officer that Stephen Paddock shot has been identified as Jesus Campos by the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America.
Stephen Paddock, the gunman who rained bullets on the Route 91 Harvest festival on Sunday night, spent decades stockpiling weapons and ammunition, and he “meticulously” planned the night he sprayed gunfire from his room at the Mandalay Bay on a crowd of concertgoers on the Strip, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Wednesday.
About 10 p.m. Sunday, Raymond Page heard the first gunshots. The Henderson man grabbed his phone, turned it on and started recording.