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.
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.
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, MailOnline learnt.
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 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.
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