Las Vegas police think Stephen Paddock might have shot at a fuel tank near the Route 91 Harvest country music festival before opening fire on the crowd but have yet to find a motive for the massacre, Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill.
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The Family Assistance Center set up at the Las Vegas convention center to help family members of victims of the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting has shifted its mission to focus on helping survivors heal and move on.
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.
In her first public statement Wednesday, the girlfriend of Stephen Paddock said she thought he was breaking up with her, not planning a massacre.
At a Tuesday evening news conference, Undersheriff Kevin McMahill showed a few minutes of footage compiled from a few of the 67 body cameras worn by Metro officers on Sunday night.
Roughly 300 people fleeing the mass shooting at Mandalay Bay managed to break through the security fence surrounding McCarran International on Sunday night, wandered onto an active airfield and brought flights to a halt, airport officials said.
Las Vegas Boulevard reopened in front of Mandalay Bay Tuesday evening for the first time since Sunday’s deadly shooting at the Route 91 music festival.
When police and security officers closed in on the gunman who rained death on concertgoers from his room at Mandalay Bay, he may have been watching their every move through cameras placed in the hallway.
A video on Facebook shows the same suite where gunman Stephen Paddock shot at a crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival on Sunday on the Las Vegas Strip.
This timeline has been updated with information provided by the Metropolitan Police Department during a 5 p.m. briefing on Wednesday.