Las Vegas Shooting Investigation Closed. No Motive Found

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Las Vegas Shooting Investigation Closed. No Motive Found

Police investigating the October 2017 deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas said they've been able to answer the "who, what, when, where and how" of the massacre, but as the end of the probe was announced on Friday, officials still could not explain the "why."

"The goal of our investigation all along was to provide the public with the clearest picture possible of the events leading up to Oct. 1, as well as motive," Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo told reporters at news conference. "What we have not been able to definitively answer is the 'Why Stephen Paddock committed this act?'" he said.

The public briefing coincided with the anticipated release of the 187-page report prepared by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's Force Investigation Team. It is the culmination of a 10-month investigation of the shootings that left 58 people dead and hundreds more injured at an outdoor country music concert.

Lombardo confirmed that 64-year-old Paddock acted alone when he fired a hail of bullets out the window of his hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Resort. The sheriff also quashed all rumors of conspiracies. "There's been no other gunman identified," he said, adding that the department does not anticipate charging any other individuals.

Lombardo described Paddock as "an unremarkable man" who many people — including one of his brothers — said had mental health issues.
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[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Federal agency officials have determined the massacre was not an act of terrorism, but on Friday, Lombardo said he disagreed.

"I would personally call it a terrorist attack. It had an influence on a certain demographic of people [and] intended to cause harm," he said.

But he acknowledged the crime, while heinous, does not meet the FBI's standards for terrorism.
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Terrorism has a specific legal definition and one of the things I noticed is that white people generally are never classified as "terrorist" by our government including Timothy McVeigh.

I wonder if this determination by the Las Vegas Metro Police Department will prevent MGM from being able to get the claims against them dismissed under the federal law that they were relying on to shield them from liability.

 

[miketx]

He was a liberal asshole that targeted conservatives.

 

[percysunshine]

An obvious psychopath. He conflated percieved, or real, injustice against himself, with the intent of a random crowd of people.

Sounds alot like twitter....