The Las Vegas Police Department released new photos Friday night that show the spot from which the worst mass shooting in modern US history took place. Paddock is pictured before the October 1 massacre
The Las Vegas Police Department released photos Friday that show the spot from which the worst mass shooting in modern US history took place.
Photos of Stephen Paddock’s room inside the Mandalay Bay hotel on October 1, 2017 show the floor littered with guns and other weaponry. Images also showed his dead body lying on the floor of the weapon-infested suite.
Also visible is the smashed window from which Paddock, 64, was able to shoot his assault rifles, killing 58 and injuring nearly 1,000 people.
The photos also confirm what investigators already expected – that Paddock had hidden cameras inside and outside the room to watch for anyone who might attempt to enter. One of the cameras was hidden in a food cart just outside his room, and another was mounted in the door’s peephole.
Investigators still have not discovered what motivated Paddock to massacre dozens – but determined he researched SWAT tactics ahead of the massacre and investigated other possible targets, including a famed California beach in Santa Monica, officials said on Friday
They also determined that Paddock acted alone when he opened fire from his high-rise hotel suite, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo told reporters.
Lombardo made public a preliminary report into the shooting and said he does not expect charges to be filed against Paddock’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley, who had been previously called a person of interest in the case. Investigators also found that Paddock had possessed child pornography, Lombardo said.

Investigators recovered 23 guns in Paddock’s suite. Some of the rifles are seen above

Twelve of the rifles had been fitted with ‘bump stock’ devices to make them fire faster, similar to a fully automatic weapon

Pictured above is a previously released photo of the gunman dead on the floor of his hotel suite after the 10-minute shooting

Paddock’s vantage point from the Mandalay Bay, where he carried out the attack, is seen above. He targeted concertogers at the Route 91 music festival across the street

The report included never-before-seen pictures from inside the gunman’s suite, which he used to fire down on innocent concertgoers. The photo above includes a picture of the smaller connecting room that Paddock used as a second shooting vantage point

Paddock fired more than 1,100 bullets, mostly from two windows in the high-rise hotel. Above, some of the bullets on the floor, near the window where he shot from

Paddock set up a camera on a room service cart outside of his room so he could know when officers were arriving outside his door (straight ahead and on the right)

Above, a view of the covert camera that Paddock his underneath a plate on the food service cart left outside his room

Mandalay Bay security were first drawn to Paddock’s hotel room when they noticed a stairwell door that had been screwed shut (above). A security officer responded to the floor and heard gunshots

By the time they burst into the suite, Paddock had already shot himself dead. Above, a view of the entrance to the larger suite

Paddock also set up a second camera in the peephole of the hotel room door, as a second vantage into the hallway
Paddock’s online searches before the shooting included research into SWAT tactics and for other potential public venue targets – and he took photographs of some potential sites, the sheriff said. The searches also included the number of attendees at other concerts in Las Vegas and how many people go to Santa Monica’s beach.
During the Friday press conference, Lombardo also revealed that police are investigating a person of interest, who is not Danley. Lombardo reiterated, however, that they believe Paddock was a lone shooter.
The sheriff and the FBI have said they found no link to international terrorism. They said they believe Paddock meticulously prepared and concealed his plan to fire assault-style weapons from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel into a crowd of 22,000 people attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival music below.
Paddock fired more than 1,100 bullets, mostly from two windows in the high-rise hotel, Lombardo has said. That includes about 200 shots fired through Paddock’s hotel room door into a hallway where an unarmed hotel security guard was wounded in the leg and a maintenance engineer took cover to avoid being hit.
Several bullets hit aviation fuel storage tanks at nearby McCarran International Airport that did not explode. Authorities reported finding about 4,000 unused bullets in Paddock’s two-room suite, including incendiary rounds that Lombardo said were not used.

Investigators also included this graphic showing the layout of Paddock’s two connecting rooms. Room 32135 was the larger suite, and room 32134 was the smaller one. He shot out of windows on the northeast side of the larger room and on the east side of the smaller room

The Mandalay Bay hotel is seen in the top left of this picture, released in the report on Friday

When officers first arrived at the scene, Paddock tried shooting at them through the door to his suite

Paddock used a computer to livestream the feeds from the cameras so he could watch the hallway from inside his suite

Paddock smuggled a huge array of tools into his hotel room to prepare for the horrific attack

This is the chilling notes Paddock wrote as he calculated the distance to the concertgoers across the street, so he could use the right weapon to target them

Paddock booked two rooms at the Mandalay Bay that connected through the door above. He shot out of two windows, one in the larger room and one in the small room

Pictured above is Paddock’s smaller room, and some of the guns found inside

The above picture shows Paddock’s minivan, which investigators initially said he planned to use to escape

Several packages of tannerite, an explosive, were found inside Paddock’s car

According to the report, investigators found 20 two-pound containers of exploding targets, 10 one-pound containers of exploding targets, two 20-pound bags of explosive precursors, a loaded magazine for an AR-10 rifle, a loaded magazine for an AR-15 magazine, boxed ammunition, suitcases and towels inside Paddock’s 2017 Chrysler Pacifica

Several bullets hit aviation fuel storage tanks at nearby McCarran International Airport that did not explode

Above, a bullet hole that truck one of the fuel tanks at McCarren

Another item found in Paddock’s room and taken as evidence was a blue snorkel mouthpiece attached to some piping. The report doesn’t say what the believe this was for
Investigators found 23 guns in the rooms, including 12 rifles that a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms official said were fitted with ‘bump stock’ devices that allowed rapid-fire shooting similar to fully automatic operation.
Paddock killed himself with a gunshot to the mouth before police reached him. The 64-year-old retired accountant and multimillionaire real estate investor had earned hotel upgrades as a high-stakes video poker gambler at several Las Vegas casino resorts.
Danley was in the Philippines at the time of the shooting.

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo discusses the Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting during a news conference on Friday

The report says that Paddock’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley, will likely not face charges. She had previously been called a person of interest in the case
Lombardo and Aaron Rouse, FBI agent in charge in Las Vegas, had described Danley as a person of interest in the investigation but not a suspect. She was questioned by the FBI when she arrived in Los Angeles from overseas, and was described as cooperating with investigators.
However, a document filed October 6 and unsealed last Friday by a federal judge in Las Vegas said the FBI considered Danley ‘the most likely person who aided or abetted Stephen Paddock.’
Questions have been raised about Danley’s receipt in the Philippines of a $10,000 wire transfer from Paddock just days before the shooting.
FBI warrant documents also showed that Danley told investigators that they would find her fingerprints on bullets used during the attack because she would sometimes help Paddock load high-volume ammunition magazines, and that Danley deleted her Facebook account in the hours immediately following the shooting.
The Clark County coroner ruled that all 58 people killed in the attack died of gunshot wounds. Paddock’s death was ruled a suicide. Media organizations including The Associated Press are seeking autopsy records that have not been made public.