Paddock booked hotel across from Lollapalooza in Aug

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Stephen Paddock Booked Hotel Overlooking Lollapalooza 2 Months Before Vegas Massacre

looks like he's been thinking about doing something like this for awhile. it would seem to remove the "he was targeting white conservatives" as that is one diverse audience in that crowd.

 

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Paddock booked hotel across from Lollapalooza in Aug

So what? Did he do anything illegal then?

Might you be alluding to the fact that his LV actions were premeditated and planned? If so, well, yeah, that is obvious, and from more than where he booked a hotel room in August.

 

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Paddock booked hotel across from Lollapalooza in Aug

So what? Did he do anything illegal then?

seriously?

 

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

He ripped that tag off the mattress.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Sounds like he was targeting young and white.

 

[waltky]

Paddock tried to blow up airport fuel tanks...

Vegas shooter fired upon airport fuel tanks 'with intent'
Oct. 13, 2017 -- Las Vegas investigators believe the gunman who opened fire on country music concert goers, killing 58, intentionally shot at aviation fuel tanks at a nearby airport, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Friday.

In the days after the Oct. 1 attack, police said they found evidence at least two bullets hit the tanks at McCarran International Airport. Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd from the 32nd floor of his Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino hotel room, though he may have had additional plans to try to cause an explosion at the airport. "It is believed the fuel tanks were fired upon with intent," Lombardo said during a new conference.

A man greets passing cars with a #Vegasstrong T-shirt and an American flag as they arrive on Las Vegas Boulevard on October 4 near site of the October 1 mass shooting where 58 people were killed and more than 500 injured while attending the three-day Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas. On Friday, investigators said they believe the shooter intentionally fired upon fuel tanks at the nearby airport.​

A statement from the airport said airport officials found one bullet penetrated a tank partially filled with jet fuel and another bullet lodged in the outer steel shell of the tank but did not penetrate. "Contrary to speculation, there is almost zero likelihood gunfire damage could trigger a fire or explosion at a commercial fuel storage facility," the statement said, since jet fuel is a combustible, not flammable liquid.

Also during Friday's update, Lombardo said investigators still have not found any ties between the shooter terror groups or extremism. An autopsy also did not find any brain abnormalities in Paddock, though further tests were underway. Lombardo said that of the 546 reported injuries, 501 people have been discharged from the hospital, with 45 still in treatment.

Vegas shooter fired upon airport fuel tanks 'with intent'

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Police: Las Vegas Shooter Fired at Jet Fuel Tanks
October 13, 2017 - Authorities in Las Vegas think the shooter who targeted fans at a country music concert in the city two weeks ago intentionally fired on a pair of nearby aviation fuel tanks.

Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told reporters Friday that Stephen Paddock shot at the fuel tanks at McCarran International Airport "with intent" to explode them. Lombardo said the airport had since been in contact with fuel storage experts who have advised it on further measures it could take to safeguard its supply. He noted there was a low probability that the aviation fuel could have been ignited with gunfire, because the tanks allow for the continual release of fuel vapors. The news came as police continued to sort out facts of the incident, in which Paddock killed 58 people and wounded hundreds before shooting himself.

Sticking with timeline

Lombardo said police were standing by the timeline they offered for the shooting, which has been questioned by officials from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, from which the gunman fired. According to Lombardo, Paddock began shooting at the concert crowd at 10:05 p.m. on October 1. Six minutes earlier, Lombardo said, Paddock shot 200 bullets into the hallway outside his room, injuring a security guard. The timeline differs from the one put forward last week by police, in which they said Paddock shot the guard after opening fire on the crowd.

Two jet fuel storage tanks are pictured Oct. 5, 2017, near the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, from which Stephen Paddock shot at concertgoers along the Las Vegas Strip four days earlier, in Las Vegas, Nevada.​

Mandalay Bay officials have disputed the claim that six minutes elapsed between the confrontation with the security guard and the beginning of the concert shooting. Authorities have yet to release a motive in the shooting, though Lombardo said Friday that an autopsy had found no visual abnormalities in the shooter's brain. The sheriff said 45 victims remained hospitalized after the shooting, some in critical condition.

Police: Las Vegas Shooter Fired at Jet Fuel Tanks