A note found in the Las Vegas gunman’s room showed handwritten calculations detailing which angle to fire to kill as many people as possible, according to reports.
In an interview with CBS' “60 Minutes,” officers who stormed Stephen Paddock’s room on the 32nd
floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino after he shot and killed 58
people and injured hundreds more said they found a chilling note on his
nightstand.
“I
could see on it he had written the distance, the elevation he was on,
the drop of what his bullet was gonna be for the crowd,' Officer Dave
Newton from the Las Vegas Police Department's K-9 unit said in
the interview. “So he had that written down and figured out so he would
know where to shoot to hit his targets from there.”
Authorities
blew open the 64-year-old retired accountant’s door with an explosive
and found he’d killed himself after his shooting spree at the Route 91
Harvest Music Festival on Oct. 1.
The
crowd was approximately 400 yards away, well within range of the
expensive custom-made rifles found in Paddock's suite, police said.
Newton
described what it was like to enter into the Paddock’s hotel room after
the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
“Very
eerie. Yeah, the dust from the explosive breach. And then you have the
flashing lights [from a fire alarm],” Newton said. "And that looked
straight, like, out of a movie, you know?’
Photos that surfaced of Paddock’s suite after the attack showed several guns and bullets strewn across the floor.
Clark
County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said investigators had "looked at
literally everything" and still do not have a clear motive for the
shooting.
Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-chilling-note-left-las-150600941.html
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