Showing posts with label stephan paddock. Show all posts
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Monday, December 25, 2017

Nearly 3 Months Since the Vegas Massacre, Police Silent, Still No Images of Paddock, & No Motive

vegasLas Vegas casinos are arguably the most intensely surveilled place on earth, oddly, not a single image or video of alleged Vegas shooter Stephan Paddock has been released.

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

5 Reasons to Strongly Question the Official Narrative of the Vegas Mass Shooting


Las Vegas, NV – The official narrative is that the alleged shooter, Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old man from Mesquite, Nevada, opened fire on concert-goers located in a fairgrounds area on Las Vegas Boulevard from his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. The deadly shooting rampage in Las Vegas left at least 59 dead and over 500 injured.


SWAT officers responded to the hotel room and used an explosive breach to enter the room and engage the suspect, but believe that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound prior to officers gaining access to the room. Police also confirmed that the shooter had cameras set up in his hotel room to monitor the hallways outside of his room, as well as to record himself during the attack.


Police found 23 guns, ammunition, and a dead Paddock upon entering the grisly scene in his hotel room.


Leaked photographs of the scene show Paddock lying dead on the hotel room floor with blood pouring from his mouth.


Strangely, there appear to be shells on top of the blood.



Police say they do not yet have a motive for the mass killing.


Interestingly, Paddock appears to have left some kind of note on the side table – which the police have yet to acknowledge or release the contents of.


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Subsequently, Paddock’s motives remain a mystery, with the millionaire property developer having no criminal history and not fitting the typical profile for a mass shooting suspect.


In fact, he appears to have checked into the high roller hotel days before the devastating mass shooting, although no one claims to have seen him carry the numerous suitcases full of weapons and ammunition it would have taken to carry out the attack.


Housekeepers said they “saw no signs of anything” suspicious, Nevada Rep. Dina Titus told CNN.



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Additionally, there has been no footage released of Paddock bringing the numerous suitcases of guns into the hotel. While this could be due to the ongoing investigation, releasing hotel security footage would seemingly quell a rising tide of disbelief in the official narrative.


Keep in mind that Las Vegas hotels and casinos are some of the most thoroughly recorded areas in the country – with virtually every square inch being subject to monitoring by security cameras.


In similar cases, often within the first 24-hours, police will at least release still images of the suspect captured by the building’s security cameras – yet there has been nothing of the sort released to date.



Cops have repeatedly said investigations are ongoing and have yet to make public any details.


Here are five good reasons to question the official narrative being sold to the public.


1. Photos of Stephen Paddock’s hotel room have been leaked, and one of those photos appears to show a suicide note.


While there is no way to confirm this is actually a suicide note, regardless of what it is, why hasn’t the public been told what is in that note?






2. One Witness Told Local News that a Strange Woman Told Concertgoers ‘You’re All Going to Die’ Before the Shooting


As we previously reported, an interview with a witness raises startling questions, as the eyewitness claims to have seen a woman push her way to the first row of the concert roughly 45 minutes before the shooting began and levy threats indicating that everyone would soon be dead.



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“So there was a lady who pushed her way forward into the first row and she started messing with another lady. She told us we were all going to die tonight – it was about forty five minutes before the shots were fired,” the witness states.




3. Sheer Logistics


How did a 64-year-old man, not in peak physical condition, with “no military background” and who wasn’t a “gun guy at all” operate such advanced weapons in such a proficient manner?


As Jon Rappoport has pointed out, it would have been virtually impossible logistically for Stephen Paddock to kill and wound 573 people in less than five minutes of shooting with the kinds of weapons that he is alleged to have used.


According to Rappoport’s reporting:



Yesterday, I did a brief analysis of the number of people killed and wounded at the Vegas Concert (573) in roughly four and half minutes, which is the police estimate of the duration of the attack.



The lone shooter killed or wounded 2.1 persons per second. It is HIGHLY doubtful Paddock could have done that. His distance from the concert, his lack of professional skill, his state of mind, among other factors, rule against it.



While it is possible that many of the injuries were from the crowd trampling each other, the numbers for the shooting simply don’t add up.


4. Video Appearing to Confirm Multiple Shooters


As we previously reported, a video, confirmed to be taken by a Las Vegas cab driver, appears to capture and confirm the presence of multiple shooters.


Cori Langdon, taxi driver, and resident of Las Vegas was in the taxi lane at Mandalay Bay when the shooting began. At first, Langdon didn’t know what was going on, but when the shots began, she quickly realized and began filming. What she captured could be considered the most important evidence in regards to the reports of multiple shooters.



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In the video, shots begin to ring out. At first, the shots are far away and then, all of the sudden, they are right on top of her. This happens several times during the first two minutes of the video. As Langdon continues filming, the shooting becomes clear that it is coming from two different spots and Langdon even confirms this by saying, “It is now coming from further away.”


Using multiple firing positions is a military tactic designed to throw off the enemy. A single firing position is relatively easy to pinpoint, so the use multiple points of fire is employed to ‘blur’ the locator’s image.




5. Man claiming to be in the room next door to Paddock went on record mentioning multiple shooters


According to a report in the Courier Mail:



Australian Brian Hodge, who previously worked at Jupiters Casino on the Gold Coast, claimed he was staying in the room next to the shooter on level 32 at the Las Vegas resort.


He said he managed to escape the initial horrific scenes inside the hotel but found himself forced to hide in a bush for several hours after the event.


“I got outside safely and was hiding in bushes,” Mr Hodge said.


“There were multiple people dead and multiple shooters. I was just hiding waiting for police to come get us.”



While some will claim that these are just “conspiracy theories,” the reality is that every aspect must be critically analyzed and questioned, rather than making a quick rush to judgment. No one here is claiming to know what happened, we only want answers to all these loose ends.


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Monday, October 2, 2017

5 Critical Facts You Need to Know About Stephen Paddock

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Las Vegas, NV – The gunman in the Las Vegas mass shooting, who opened fire on concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival — which is now being called the deadliest mass shooting in US history — has been identified as Stephen Paddock.


The shooting rampage left at least 58 dead and 515 injured, according to the latest report from the Las Vegas Metro Police Department.


The shooter, Stephen Paddock, is a 64-year-old man from Mesquite, Nevada, who opened fire on concert-goers located in a fairgrounds area on Las Vegas Boulevard from his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel.


SWAT officers responded to the hotel room and used an explosive breach to enter the room and engage the suspect, but believe that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound prior to officers gaining access to the room.


In spite of the myriad of conspiracy theories and fake photos and motives posted online, Police do not yet have a motive and Paddock’s motivation is unknown.


Although ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack, without evidence, police claim that Paddock has no known ties to any terrorist organization, according to NBC.


Here is what we know about the shooter thus far.


1. Police Do Not Believe This Was an Act of Terror ‘At this point’ & Called Paddock a ‘Local Individual’


Police said the shooter was a “local individual” who was firing from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel just outside the concert area. Authorities report that Paddock died inside the hotel room after a police SWAT team used an explosive breach to blow open the door and then attempted engaged with him. Police believe that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound prior to officers gaining access to the room.


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Although ISIS has attempted to take responsibility for the attack, Sheriff Joe Lombardo, when asked by a reporter if the shooting was an “act of terrorism,” said “no, not at this point. We believe it was a local individual. He resides here locally. I’m not at liberty to give you his place of residence yet, because it’s an ongoing investigation, we don’t know what his belief system was at this time. … Right now we believe he is the sole aggressor at this point and the scene is static.”




The ISIS claims should be taken with a grain of salt, as the group has been shown to previously have attempted to piggyback on unrelated events/crimes in an effort to bolster their terror credentials.




2. More than 10 Firearms and Shooting Platform Found in Suspect’s Hotel Room


Sheriff Lombardo said numerous firearms were found inside the hotel room. Police sources have confirmed to KTNV that Paddock had more than 10 firearms in the room, two shooting platforms and cameras set up to see police arriving. Authorities believe that Paddock utilized long range rifles during the attack, according to News 8 Now.



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Police reportedly found where Paddock was shooting from by listening to where the gunshots were coming from, according to Las Vegas Undersheriff Kevin McMahill.


Police suspect the guns used in the shooting were altered to fire more rapidly. Some experts say the inconsistent pattern of gunfire captured in footage of the attack does suggest the guns were modified – possibly via a “trigger crank” or “bump stock.”



3. Police Were Looking for a ‘Person of Interest’, Paddock’s companion, and Located Her Outside the Country


Police began searching for a “person of interest,” named Marilou Danley, 62. She was described as a “companion” of the shooter. Danley allegedly lived with the shooter in Mesquite, according to police. Public records show she had lived at the same address as Paddock since January 2017, reports Heavy.


According to a CNN report, Danley has since been cleared of any involvement in the shooting, and was not even in the country when the shooting occurred. Police reportedly made contact with after locating her in the Philippines.


“Marilou Danley is no longer being sought out as a person of interest,” the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told CNN. “LVMPD detectives have made contact with her and do not believe she is involved with the shooting on the strip.”


4. Shooter’s Brother Says the Family Is ‘Dumbfounded’ by What Happened & Claims Stephen Had No Religious or Political Affiliation


During an interview with NBC News, Paddock’s brother Eric said that the entire family stunned as there was “absolutely no indication he could do something like this.” He told NBC that his brother “was just a guy” who liked to go to shows in Las Vegas and gamble, and that he was semi-retired and had a girlfriend.



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Eric Paddock, who lives in Florida, told the Daily Mail that the family is “dumbfounded.”


“He’s my brother, we don’t have a very close relationship but we talk occasionally. There’s no rhyme or reason here, it makes no sense. He has no political affiliation, no religious affiliation, as far as we know. This wasn’t a terror attack,” Eric Paddock told the Daily Mail.



“He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something,” the shooter’s brother, Eric Paddock, added.


“We are completely dumbfounded,” Eric Paddock told the Orlando Sentinal. “We can’t understand what happened.”


5. Paddock’s Background


Details of Stephen Paddock’s background are still being investigated, and the family told NBC News that they would be releasing a statement through the police on Monday.


According to his brother Eric Paddock, the shooter was a retired accountant. He was divorced, was not known to have children, and was living with a woman (presumed to be Marilou Danley) in a home in Mesquite. He is not know to have a criminal record.


Paddock was in the midst of going through a break-up – although the identity of the woman is unknown, according to NBC News. The NBC report noted that it was unclear if these relationship issues had anything to do with the mass shooting in Las Vegas.


Additionally, law enforcement sources told CBS News that Paddock had recently been gambling, including at the Mandalay Bay casino, and used Marilou Danley’s ID at a “slot club.” Undersheriff Kevin McMahill told CBS that there was a “gaming club, slot club, that casinos use and he was at one point using that card to gamble with. We know he’s been gambling.”



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Paddock had recently made large gambling transactions, but it was not whether this was the result of winning or losing, according to an NBC News reports. “He was a wealthy guy playing video poker … on cruises,” his brother said, adding that “Stephen could afford anything he wanted and played $100-a-hand poker.” 


Public records reveal that Paddock was a pilot. Paddock was awarded a private pilot license on November 17, 2003, and was rated as being able to fly a single-engine airplane and an instrument airplane, according to the FAA records.


Paddock owned two aircraft, according to NBC News.


Paddock appears to have worked as an accountant or auditor, ABC News reports.


NBC News reports Paddock worked for a few years for a defense contractor. The defense contractor, Lockheed Martin, said in a statement that Paddock worked for a predecessor company from 1985 to 1988.


“We’re cooperating with authorities to answer questions they may have about Mr. Paddock and his time with the company,” Lockheed Martin said in a statement.



His father was a bank robber, Eric Paddock said. The FBI lists the late Benjamin Hoskins Paddock as being on the FBI’s most-wanted list from June 10, 1969, until May 5, 1977. The father escaped from prison in 1969 and lived on the run until 1978, when he was arrested in Oregon, the Eugene Register reported at the time.


He kept a low profile. Law enforcement has no “derogatory information” about Stephen Paddock, besides the fact that he received a citation several years ago that was handled in the court system, Sheriff Lombardo said.

WATCH: Woman Warned, ‘You’re All Going to Die Tonight’—45 Min. BEFORE Shooting, Witness Says

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Las Vegas, NV – In what is now being deemed the deadliest mass shooting in US history, at least 50 people are confirmed dead and over 400 people have been sent to area hospitals, after a gunman, identified as 64-year-old Stephan Paddock, opened fire on concert-goers during a music festival.


The mass shooting took place at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival across the road from the Mandalay Bay hotel, on the south side of the Las Vegas Strip.


Interestingly, an interview with a witness raises startling questions, as the eyewitness claims to have seen a woman push her way to the first row of the concert roughly 45 minutes before the shooting began and levy threats indicating that everyone would soon be dead.




Investigators said they have identified a woman who had been traveling with Paddock, Marilou Danley, and want to question her.


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According to police, Danley was not with Paddock when he checked into Mandalay Bay. Paddock was utilizing some of her identification, Lombardo said, adding that police “have had a conversation with her,” believing Danley “at this time not to be involved.”


CNN reports that she was not in the country when the shooting occurred. Police later confirmed that she had been located in the Phillipines.


Law enforcement sources say they located the shooter on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, and that it appears Paddock opened fire on the concert-goers from the upper room floor of the hotel, according to the Las Vegas-Journal Review.




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Currently, there are conflicting reports as to whether the shooter took his own life or was killed by police. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said police had located a number of firearms in the room he occupied in the hotel.


Lombardo attempted to dispel the notion that there were multiple shooters, claiming that reports of multiple shooters and that explosives were used were false.


Police also said that Paddock had no known connection to terrorism, and that law enforcement is not calling this a terrorist attack, according to NBC News.


This is in spite of the recent statement from ISIS claiming responsibility for the attack. 




A statement published by the group’s Amaq propaganda agency claimed the attacker was a “soldier of the Islamic State”.


“The Las Vegas attacker is a soldier of the Islamic State in response to calls to target coalition countries,” it said.


In a second statement, Isis claimed the gunman “converted to Islam several months ago”.



Paddock was not known to the federal authorities but was known to local law enforcement, according to law enforcement sources.


Numerous videos posted on social media show large crowds of people running and ducking for cover as the sound of gunfire rings out.




The report by the eyewitness raises many important questions about the attack.


So, who was this woman that allegedly gave an ominous warning prior to the largest mass shooting in US history? Where did security take her after escorting her out, and do they have a record of it?



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Please share this crucial story in hopes of getting this information out to the public, and getting to the bottom of what actually took place!