What a Strange Shooting

william the wie

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As of now the story goes as follows

Paddock really started buying weapons about a year ago.

He obtained relatively difficult materials to get.

No motive

No known social media accounts

He examined more than one target.

How did he learn his technique which worked exceptionally well?

No police record to speak of at any level of government.

How do his actions mimic a sleeper agent so perfectly?
 
It is indeed getting interesting.
The early statement by the FBI said they believed he got help from someone along the lines. More than likely they will find out who.
Renting hotels in multiple venues looking for the right target? This is not someone just "losing it". This guy has been planning this for a looong time.
 
It is indeed getting interesting.
The early statement by the FBI said they believed he got help from someone along the lines. More than likely they will find out who.
Renting hotels in multiple venues looking for the right target? This is not someone just "losing it". This guy has been planning this for a looong time.
Are you sure he was actually looking for the right target with those visits? He was a high roller millionaire who had a lot of time to kill. But I agree it seems there was planning involved.
 
It’s absolutely terrifying that we don’t know anything. Maybe that was his intention
 
It is indeed getting interesting.
The early statement by the FBI said they believed he got help from someone along the lines. More than likely they will find out who.
Renting hotels in multiple venues looking for the right target? This is not someone just "losing it". This guy has been planning this for a looong time.
Are you sure he was actually looking for the right target with those visits? He was a high roller millionaire who had a lot of time to kill. But I agree it seems there was planning involved.

Who knows...but the hotels he booked all had large outdoor concerts by them on the dates he booked them...at least from what I read earlier today
 
If the guy wanted us to know his motive....he would have left a note

It may have been his intent to drive us nuts wondering about his motive
 
As of now the story goes as follows

Paddock really started buying weapons about a year ago.

He obtained relatively difficult materials to get.

No motive

No known social media accounts

He examined more than one target.

How did he learn his technique which worked exceptionally well?

No police record to speak of at any level of government.

How do his actions mimic a sleeper agent so perfectly?
Lots of people, especially older folks don't do much if any social media. My social media is for the most part limited to this message board and a couple of fishing forums. Someone with a clean record can easily plot and carry out and evil and diabolical plan and stay under the radar if he so chooses to do so.
 
All the while the budget is being talked about in Congress this week and everyone is watching the LVS over and over and no one is caring about the budget. Maybe the man didn't kill anyone and it was hired mercenaries.

All for the good of the country.
 
It is indeed getting interesting.
The early statement by the FBI said they believed he got help from someone along the lines. More than likely they will find out who.
Renting hotels in multiple venues looking for the right target? This is not someone just "losing it". This guy has been planning this for a looong time.
I wonder what the autopsy will find.
 
I wonder what the autopsy will find.
My thoughts, too.

Unless some credible motive can be found for this man's actions it would be interesting to learn if there are some lesions or tumors on or in his brain which might account for what he did. But, unfortunately, they say he committed suicide, which probably means a bullet through the brain -- and that's that.
 
A Manchurian Candidate perhaps? If it were an outside force acting upon him who could it be? A terrorist org? A foreign govt.?
Interesting.
 
As of now the story goes as follows

Paddock really started buying weapons about a year ago.

He obtained relatively difficult materials to get.

No motive

No known social media accounts

He examined more than one target.

How did he learn his technique which worked exceptionally well?

No police record to speak of at any level of government.

How do his actions mimic a sleeper agent so perfectly?
Lots of people, especially older folks don't do much if any social media. My social media is for the most part limited to this message board and a couple of fishing forums. Someone with a clean record can easily plot and carry out and evil and diabolical plan and stay under the radar if he so chooses to do so.

But at that range and height he could have used a crossbow and a fake credit/debit card to escape in order to rinse and repeat.
 
As of now the story goes as follows

Paddock really started buying weapons about a year ago.

He obtained relatively difficult materials to get.

No motive

No known social media accounts

He examined more than one target.

How did he learn his technique which worked exceptionally well?

No police record to speak of at any level of government.

How do his actions mimic a sleeper agent so perfectly?
Lots of people, especially older folks don't do much if any social media. My social media is for the most part limited to this message board and a couple of fishing forums. Someone with a clean record can easily plot and carry out and evil and diabolical plan and stay under the radar if he so chooses to do so.

But at that range and height he could have used a crossbow and a fake credit/debit card to escape in order to rinse and repeat.

He was well known as a high roller a that casino

I doubt if he could have remained anonymous
 
I wonder what the autopsy will find.
My thoughts, too.

Unless some credible motive can be found for this man's actions it would be interesting to learn if there are some lesions or tumors on or in his brain which might account for what he did. But, unfortunately, they say he committed suicide, which probably means a bullet through the brain -- and that's that.
That may be possible given this out of character behavior. However, medical conditions such as tumors often manifest themselves in more ways than one over time. There is no indication from family and friends that there were any changes to his behavior.
Case in point; Charles Whitman, who committed the mass shooting from the tower at UT Austin in 1966 had suffered from violent impulses for years prior to the shooting. It was discovered upon autopsy that he had a brain tumor. However, Whitman, unlike Paddock murdered his wife and mother and purchased all guns and ammo the morning of. Even medication doesn't explain Paddock. There had to be some outside force.
 
If the guy wanted us to know his motive....he would have left a note

It may have been his intent to drive us nuts wondering about his motive
I have read where he did leave a note..
There is so much shit out there, its hard to tell whats reality.
 

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