Mass shooting at a concert in Las Vegas

New photos show the horrifying scene SWAT teams encountered when they blew the door off the Las Vegas shooter's room and found him dead inside - as authorities reveal the mass murderer set up cameras in a door peephole and on a room service cart outside the room to warn him when police arrived.
The photos, leaked Tuesday, show Stephen Paddock's body on the floor of his suite in the Mandalay Bay resort and casino, which he used as a sniper's nest on Sunday night to open fire on 22,000 innocent people attending a music festival across the street.
Only the 64-year-old's legs, torso and left arm are visible in the photo, and he wears a typical outfit for a retiree: a brown long-sleeve t-shirt, black slacks and slip on loafers with white socks. The only thing that reveals his nefarious actions are the black gloves he's wearing.
Next to him, on a table, is what looks like a note written on pink paper, underneath what appears to be either an ashtray or a roll of green tape. Police have not yet remarked on what - if anything - the paper might say.
On the floor next to the body are two assault rifles, dozens of spent shells and a hammer - which he presumably used to shatter two windows in his two-room suite which he then used to shoot out of.
One of the assault rifles has a 'bump stock' added to it - making effectively fully automatic - allowing him to unleash hundreds of rounds per minute.
The branding on the gun indicates it was made by Daniel Defense, a Savannah-Georgia-based company which produces variants of the AR-15 rifle, based off the U.S. Army's M16. Another gun appears to be under his body.
Another photo shows how he pushed two sitting chairs together to form a cradle-like space to store at least two other rifles. Another AR-15-style rifle is seen at the foot of chairs with an extended magazine that would allow him to shoot for longer before reloading.
Behind a nearby pillar, about 15 magazines are piled in neat stacks. It's unclear if they are loaded or spent.
A SWAT team located Paddock in his room about 72 minutes after the beginning of the deadly attack - but cops estimate he only fired on the crowd for 9-11 minutes, starting at 10:08pm.
Police say he shot at officers as they breached the door, but by the time they made it into the suite, Paddock had committed suicide.
Paddock killed 58 in the attack and injured 527. His death brought the total death count to 59.
On Tuesday, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said they had identified all but three of the victims, and that the injured county might be slightly off because one of the hospitals was double counting patients. However, he didn't release a revised injured number.

In a Tuesday night conference, Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said that an investigation was underway to find out who leaked the photographs.
Speaking at the same press conference, Jill Sneider of the ATF said that no less than 12 of the rifles found in the room had bump-stock modifications.
In total, there were 23 firearms in the hotel room, including an AK-47, an AR-15-type gun, and a handgun.
But Paddock had still more guns stored in his two houses in Verdi, outside Reno, and Mesquite, bringing the total across all thee locations to 47, she said.
They included rifles, shotguns and handguns bought from Nevada, Texas, Utah and California. All had been bought - legally - over the course of more than 20 years.
Also on Tuesday, video was released showing debris strewn outside the shooter's hotel room, from when the SWAT team blew the doors off the front door.
The video shows bullet holes piercing the left side of the suite's double doors, confirming reports that Paddock shot at officers as they tried to break into the room. However, most of the door is knocked down from the SWAT team's forceful - but necessary - entrance.
Outside the door, debris littered the carpeting in the hallway and crime scene tape covers the entrance to the room; just inside, yet another assault rifle set up on the ground, on a bipod.
At a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Lombardo confirmed that Paddock had cameras set up inside and outside of his room - including one on the food service cart. The peephole camera was revealed Tuesday evening by McMahill.
The cameras outside the room appear to have been used to warn Lombardo when police were outside. A source told the Washington Post that the cameras outside the room were connected to a tablet which streamed live footage of the hallway.
Cameras were also found inside the room, apparently to film the massacre. All of the footage is now being examined by the FBI.
'The fact that he had the type of weaponry and amount of weaponry in that room, it was preplanned extensively,' the sheriff said, 'and I'm pretty sure he evaluated everything that he did and his actions, which is troublesome.'
Lombardo said the investigation is proceeding cautiously in case charges are warranted against someone else.
'This investigation is not ended with the demise of Mr. Paddock,' the sheriff said. 'Did this person get radicalized unbeknownst to us? And we want to identify that source.'

Also in the press conference on Tuesday evening, McMahill defended police for taking 72 minutes to breach the room where Paddock was holed up after first shots were reported at 10:08pm on Sunday.
McMahill said that patrol officers who had been managing the music festival quickly entered the hotel and began working their way up to the 32nd floor, where Paddock was located, evacuating each floor as they went - but that police couldn't act until the SWAT team arrived.
He also said that Paddock's gunfire ceased at around 10:19pm - 59 minutes before his room was breached. At that point, he said, SWAT stopped regarding Paddock as an active shooter and treated him as a less urgent barricade situation, since he was isolated in the room.
McMahill didn't make it clear exactly when the SWAT team was in place, but said that at 10:38pm, a security guard approaching Paddock's room was non-fatally shot. The guard, who is still in hospital, sent 'digital information' to cops, McMahill said.
Details of that incident have not yet been released, but it seems likely that Paddock spotted the guard approaching using the cameras he installed in the door's peephole and in a room service cart he'd left in the hallway.
SWAT raided the room at 11:20pm - something the McMahill said was acceptable because Paddock was no longer shooting and was barricaded in. He said the SWAT team was 'unconventional,' being made up of SWAT members, patrol cops and a K-9 unit.

Elsewher it was revealed that Paddock was prescribed anti-anxiety medication Valium back in June, which has been linked to increased aggressive behavior in multiple studies.
Paddock was taking 10 milligram tablets at the time of the massacre, though it is not known why he was prescribed them or whether he had underlying behavioral issues.
On Tuesday it emerged that Paddock may have previously planned to attack another open-air music festival, which was held from September 22-24.
The Life is Beautiful festival was based five and a half miles from where Paddock claimed 58 lives on Sunday, and took place across 15 blocks of Downtown Vegas.
Paddock had apparently attempted to book rooms at the Ogden, a luxury condo tower that overlooked the festival, as well as a hotel with festival views, an inside source told CBS.
He requested specific suites at both locations, but moved on when he discovered they were booked, the source claimed.
That raises the grim possibility that he'd intended to turn either location into sniper nests, like the one he built in the Mandalay Bay hotel on Sunday, prior to his horrific killing spree.
The Ogden is only 21 stories tall, whereas the rooms he booked in the Mandalay Bay hotel were on the 32nd floor.
That would likely have changed the distance he would have been able to fire, but had he cleared the 330 yards fired on Sunday, he could have struck 11 of the festival's 15 blocks, including the one housing the main stage, which was directly north of the Ogden.
Among the bands playing on that stage at this year's festival were Chance the Rapper, Muse, Lorde, The XX and Gorillaz. This year the festival attracted 45,000 people per day.
The Daily Beast was the first to report Paddock's alleged interest in The Ogden. Their source, speaking before CBS's lead came forward, suggested he had successfully booked 'multiple condos'.
The source said that Paddock may have lost his nerve or changed his plans for some other reason before setting up a kill zone outside the Mandalay Bay. CBS's source later contradicted that, saying the suites he wanted were booked up.

Investigators are still struggling to determine what caused Paddock, a retiree with only a traffic infraction on his criminal record, to carry out the attack.
But his behavior in the week before the shooting may provide clues to his dark plans.
On Tuesday, it was revealed that Paddock wired $100,000 to an account in this girlfriend Marilou Danley's native Philippines sometime in the week before the attack, according to NBC News. Danley, 62, was in the Philippines when Paddock carried out the attack, but it's unclear if the money was intended for her. She is now en route back to the U.S., to speak with authorities. Sheriff Lombardo called her a person of interest in a Tuesday press conference.

Sources also told NBC News that Paddock went on a gambling spree in the two weeks before the attack, gambling amounts between $20,000 and $30,000 on multiple occasions in that time period. In total, he gambled with at least $160,000.
However, it's unknown whether those high-stakes gambles resulted in wins or loses for Paddock.
On the surface, Paddock didn't seem like a typical mass murderer, said Clint Van Zandt, a former FBI hostage negotiator and supervisor in the bureau's behavioral science unit. Paddock is much older than the typical shooter and was not known to be suffering from mental illness.
'My challenge is, I don't see any of the classic indicators, so far, that would suggest, 'OK, he's on the road either to suicide or homicide or both,' Van Zandt said.
The retired accountant had worked as an internal auditor at Lockheed Martin for three years in the late 1980s, and was a manager and investor in apartment complexes located in Mesquite, Texas and California, which made him millions, his brother said, according to the Las Vegas Sun.
Local police said they had no run-ins with the man, not even traffic violations, and his brother described him as 'just a guy who lived in Mesquite who drove down and gambled in Las Vegas and... liked burritos'.
So the discovery that he had used 10 suitcases to methodically move an arsenal up into his Mandalay Bay room over the preceding weekend came as a shock to those who knew him.
Eric Paddock said he thought his brother was far from a gun fanatic.
'He had a couple of guns but they were all handguns, legal... he might have had one long gun, but he had them in a safe,' he said.
He said he didn't know about the 23 guns that were found in the hotel room.

A law enforcement source told the Wall Street Journal that they found at least one fully automatic rifle among the batch, which included AR-15-style rifles and AK-47-style rifles.
And it later emerged that two other semi-auto guns had been legally modified with bump-stocks that allow them to function like fully-automatic rifles, pumping out 400-800 bullets a minute.
The device basically replaces the gun's shoulder rest, with a 'support step' that covers the trigger opening. By holding the pistol grip with one hand and pushing forward on the barrel with the other, the shooter's finger comes in contact with the trigger. The recoil causes the gun to buck back and forth, 'bumping' the trigger.
Technically, that means the finger is pulling the trigger for each round fired, keeping the weapon a legal semi-automatic.
Still others could have been properly converted into fully automatic fire, the LA Times reported.
Among the weapons found in the room were four Daniel Defense DDM4 rifles, three FN-15s and other rifles made by Sig Sauer. A handgun was also found.
Sheriff Lombardo said on Tuesday that he couldn't comment on whether the rifles had been modified to be automatic, but he did say that they were aware of reports that bump stops were involved.
He said that the ammunition ranged in size from .308, usually used in hunting rifles, to .223, associated with AR-15s and other assault rifles - the latter being military-grade, the New York Daily News reported.
Eric said the revelation of his brother's deadly plan, which saw thousands of rounds falling on a crowd of 22,000 people at a music festival below, was as unexpected as seeing a meteor suddenly landing on his street.
The shocks only grew in number Monday as police raided two of Paddock's properties.
The first was his Mesquite home in a sleepy retirement community, which he purchased for just over $369,000 in 2015 according to public records.

What they found was a second arsenal, even bigger than the one in the Mandalay Bay room.
Some 19 additional firearms were in the house, along with the explosive Tannerite - which is used to make explosive targets for target practice - and several thousand rounds of ammunition, Lombardo said Monday.
He added that electronic devices were also found, but that they are still being examined to determine their purpose.
Photos of the property showed the garage door torn off its hinge and crumpled after the search.

Police also found the fertilizer ammonium nitrate - which can be used to make bombs - in Paddock's car in Las Vegas on Monday.

A SWAT team also raided a second property owned by Paddock in Reno on Monday. Bomb experts were on hand, due to concerns over booby traps.
Police have not yet revealed what, if anything, they found there. Speaking on Monday evening, police said that the scene was still being examined by detectives.
Although ISIS have repeatedly attempted to claim credit for the shooting, saying Paddock had recently converted to Islam, both his brother and authorities have dismissed the claims.
He had 'no religious affiliation, no political affiliation,' Eric said, adding: 'He just hung out.'
He also had no Army training, nor expressed any particular interest in guns, Eric added - though he admitted that, as he lives in Florida, he had not spoken much with his brother over the last year.
'His life is an open book. It's all in public record,' he said. 'Once again, there is nothing. He went to college. He had a job.'
Paddock had both hunting and fishing licenses according to public records, as well as his pilot's license, but no criminal record in the state of Nevada.
Only his gambling habit stood out as unusual; Stephen would play $100 hands of video poker, and 'once texted me a picture that he won $40,000 on a slot machine,' Eric said.
Neighbors at one of his properties in Florida said that they had barely talked to him - that he gave them keys to check on the property, and would only turn up every three months or so.
When he did, they said, he would rarely be seen because he stayed up late at night playing poker online.
Law enforcement officials said that in recent weeks he had made a number of transactions in Las Vegas that were in the tens of thousands of dollars.
On some days he spent more than $30,000, and on others more than $20,000, according to an individual who had seen Paddock's Multiple Currency Transaction Reports.
It's not known whether he made money back on any recent bets, or lost it.


Paddock lived in Mesquite with his 62-year-old girlfriend Marilou Danley.
In his private life, Paddock enjoyed country shows on the Las Vegas Strip - such as the one he eventually attacked.
Paddock's time in Las Vegas wasn't totally without event, however; in 2012 he filed a lawsuit against Cosmopolitan Hotels & Resorts after he slipped and fell on a wet floor.
Paddock spent two years in court fighting his case after submitting his initial complaint citing 'Negligence - Premises Liability'.
It was ultimately dismissed with prejudice in late 2014, and exact details of the case were not available on the Clark County Courts website.
Paddock was also the son of Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, a serial bank robber who ended up on the FBI Most Wanted list back in 1969 when he escaped from federal prison in Texas while serving a 20-year sentence.
The FBI kept him on the list for the next eight years, and he was eventually found one year after he was removed from the list in 1978 - when he attracted attention for opening Oregon's first legal bingo hall.
The agency said that the fugitive had been 'diagnosed as psychopathic' and also had possible 'suicidal tendencies.'
The oldest of four children, Paddock was 7 when his father was arrested for the robberies. A neighbor, Eva Price, took him swimming while FBI agents searched the family home.
She told the Tucson Citizen at the time: 'We're trying to keep Steve from knowing his father is held as a bank robber. I hardly know the family, but Steve is a nice boy. It's a terrible thing.'

At a Monday afternoon press conference, Sheriff Lombardo said that Paddock started preparing for the attack soon after he checked into his two-room suite at the Mandalay Bay last Thursday. He used 10 suitcases to ferry in his weapons, and staff were unaware of what was inside. Police have not revealed when he started bringing the suitcases up to his room.
When a reporter asked why no one thought Paddock suspicious, Lombardo responded: 'I wish that would've happened, ma'am. I absolutely wish that would've happened.'
Paddock had committed suicide by the time police breached the door to his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort just after 10pm on Sunday night.
The attack played out as Jason Aldean performed on stage to close out the third and final day of the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival, which was taking place across the street from the resort.
Over 22,000 people were in attendance at the sold-out event, and described the attack as 'nonstop gunfire,' which only stopped when Paddock went to reload his weapon.
Police said in a press conference early Monday that Paddock's death was the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
During the chaos, claims of multiple shooters, bombings and suspicious cars circulated, but police said they were only rumors.