This photograph offers a glimpse inside the sniper’s nest created by mass murderer Stephen Paddock.
He used the suite at the Mandalay Bay hotel on theLas Vegas strip to fire on 22,000 people enjoying the Route 91 Harvest country festival.
At least 59 people were murdered and 527 hurt in the massacre.
He had taken 23 guns into his room over a period of several days, setting up two rifles on tripods at windows overlooking the music festival.
Cops were only alerted to his location when the smoke from the gun barrels set off the alarm.
He had taken 23 guns into his suite at the hotel over a period of several days, setting up two rifles on tripods at windows overlooking the music festival
Above, the view from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, in an undated photo. The concert was taking place diagonally across the street, where the stage is seen, with its green roof.
This is one of the Mandalay Bay Resort corner rooms (above), which is similar to the one from which the gunman launched his attack
Paddock checked into the hotel on Thursday, September 28, using his girlfriend’s ID according to sources. He then smuggled 23 guns up into the room in 10 suitcases over the next few days
Drapes billow out of broken windows at the Mandalay Bay. Paddock is believed to have smashed the windows with a hammer before creating sniper perches to fire at civilians below
Paddock (seen here in an undated photo) took a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel so he could fire down on festival-goers below
He was feeding the guns with thousands of rounds of ammunition, enabling him to fire repeatedly over the course of 72 minutes.
A close-up picture of his room, which was on the 32nd floor, shows smashed windows used to fire down at the helpless civilians below.
Inside – glimpsed through jagged glass – lamps can be seen still lit alongside various items of furniture.
Paddock began firing at 10.08pm on Sunday night after using 10 suitcases to methodically move an arsenal up into his room over the preceding weekend.
Police on guard on the streets outside the Mandalay Bay. The shooter died inside the hotel
Police officers stand along the Las Vegas Strip the Mandalay Bay resort and casino during a shooting near the casino, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, in Las Vegas
Among his weapons were four DDM4 rifles, three FN-15 rifles, an AK-47 assault rifle and an AR-15 rifle.
He knocked out two windows to create sniper perches that he used to rain torrents of bullets on the crowd some 500 yards away, authorities said.
SWAT teams stormed the room using flashbangs to stun Paddock, but when they entered he was already dead.
Police believe he killed himself.
Seventy-two minutes elapsed from the first 911 call to Paddock being found dead.
The shooter was in the far left tower of the Mandalay Bay (bottom right), shooting into the crowds at the Las Vegas Village, located diagonally across the intersection in the middle.
Hundreds of rounds of automatic gunfire were reported by witnesses on the scene; one woman in the Mandalay Bay said that there was a shooter on the 32nd floor, and that they had killed a security guard
But a retired Las Vegas Police Department lieutenant said he had learned that cops had found Paddock’s room in 20 minutes – because his gunshots had set off a smoke alarm.
Twenty minutes was far less time than would have been required to do a floor-by-floor search of the hotel, which has 3,309 rooms covers 135,000 square feet.
Speaking to The Washington Post, Sutton also said the murderer had ‘rained down hell on those people.’
Paddock lived in Mesquite with his 62-year-old girlfriend Marilou Danley. She was initially named a person of interest in the shooting, because she appeared to have checked into the hotel with him.
But when police called her, they found out she had been out of the country.
Cleaners said they saw no signs of anything suspicious in Paddock’s room, CNN reported.
Clark Country Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said the room was a large suite with clear views of the Vegas Strip.
It was reportedly room number 32135.