Oh Great, our Trusted and Beloved FBI finally released New Records in the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas…
New FBI records offer detailed insights into Route 91 mass shooting
The lead investigator of the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas criticized the FBI on Thursday after the federal agency released new documents about the gunman’s final days.
Kelly McMahill, a retired deputy chief, said it was “unprofessional” for the FBI to publish the new information without first notifying the Metropolitan Police Department.
“It will be very damaging to the 22,000 people that attended the concert, the victims of the family members that were lost and the survivors,” said McMahill, who is married to Sheriff Kevin McMahill. “There is still no known motive five years later, and LVMPD would never hide a potential motive from any of our victims.”
Sandy Breault, a spokeswoman with the FBI’s Las Vegas division, said Friday that the office could not comment on documents put out through the federal agency’s vault.
The newly released records provided some additional insight into Stephen Paddock’s mindset and gambling habits before he fatally shot 60 people and injured hundreds more at the Route 91 Harvest festival on the Strip.
But the FBI records — which are being widely reported for the first time just days after a shooter in Nashville, Tennessee, killed three adults and three children at a private Christian elementary school — do not identify a particular motive.
One gambler told the FBI that Paddock, who opened fire on concertgoers in a 10-minute-long rampage, was “very upset at the way casinos were treating him and other high rollers.” Names, including the gambler’s, were redacted in the FBI records.
The stress could “easily be what caused Paddock to ‘snap,’” the gambler speculated, noting that casinos had reduced the number of perks they gave to VIP customers in the years leading up to the shooting.
The Oct. 1, 2017, attack ended when Paddock, who was positioned inside a Mandalay Bay hotel suite across from the country music festival, killed himself with a revolver. At least 50 mass shootings have occurred on U.S. soil since, but the Las Vegas shooting remains the worst in modern American history.
Metro, which conducted a joint investigation of the shooting with the FBI, wrote in a statement Thursday that the documents don’t add anything of substance to the case, and “speculating on a motive causes more harm to the hundreds of people who were victims that night.”
According to the FBI records, the 64-year-old Paddock had lost thousands of dollars gambling. About a month before the shooting, he lost $38,000 in two days at the Tropicana Las Vegas, one employee told authorities.
‘Just pure evil’
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/new-fbi-records-offer-detailed-insights-into-route-91-mass-shooting-2753200/