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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 10 OcTOber 2017

Sheriff: Vegas gunman aimed at fuel tanks as diversion

By REGINA CANO Paddock’s life that trig-
KEN RITTER gered the shooting, he
Associated Press said. They didn’t find any
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The gun- note in his room, only a pa-
man who killed 58 people per with numbers, he said.
in the worst mass shooting Lombardo also confirmed
in modern U.S. history tar- investigators are talking
geted aviation fuel tanks, with Paddock’s brother Eric
stockpiled his car with ex- Paddock, who traveled to
plosives and had personal Las Vegas, and continue
protection gear as part of to speak with the shooter’s
an escape plan, the Clark girlfriend, Marilou Danley,
County sheriff said Mon- to get insight.
day.Sheriff Joe Lombardo Lombardo declined to re-
said at a news conference veal what they’ve said,
that they still have not pin- but stated, “Every piece of
pointed the shooter’s mo- information we get is one
tive behind his decision to more piece of the puzzle.”
fire on a concert crowd of Friends and relatives of
22,000 in Las Vegas on Oct. the victims and other con-
1 from the 32nd floor of the cert-goers who survived
Mandalay Bay hotel casi- returned Monday to re- Police tape blocks off the home of Stephen Craig Paddock in Mesquite, Nev. Paddock, who killed
no.There’s still no evidence claim baby strollers, shoes, 58 people in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history targeted aviation fuel tanks, stock-
Stephen Craig Paddock phones, backpacks and piled his car with explosives and had personal protection gear as part of an escape plan, the
was motivated by ideol- purses left behind in the Clark County sheriff said Monday.
ogy, and there’s no evi- panic as they fled. dalay Bay hotel casino.Eric understand Steve’s mind- night while gambling at Las
dence there was another The interviews with Pad- Paddock declined to say set,” Eric Paddock told the Vegas casinos in flip-flops
shooter, he said. Investiga- dock’s brother Saturday what he was asked, but he newspaper. “I don’t want and sweat pants, catch-
tors have found 200 inci- and Sunday were part said he’s cooperating with them to chase bad leads.” ing sleep in the day. The
dents of Paddock moving of an exhaustive search investigators, according to In a newly revealed court description of his lifestyle
through the city, and at no through the 64-year-old’s the Las Vegas Review-Jour- document obtained by comes from a deposition
time was he with anyone life in search of clues about nal. He declined interview CNN, Stephen Paddock filed as part of a civil lawsuit
else, Lombardo said. why he unleashed gunfire requests from The Associ- described himself as a he filed against Cosmopoli-
They haven’t found any from broken windows in ated Press. nocturnal creature who tan Hotel, where he slipped
one particular event in the 32rd floor of the Man- “I’m trying to get them to bet up to $1 million each and fell in 2011. q
Nate remnants drench Northeast; most power back on in South

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Rem- rain or more. Police in Am- Coast Guard reopened the At Dauphin Island, Ala- damaged by Nate.
nants of Hurricane Nate herst, New York, shared port of Mobile, Alabama. bama, Mayor Jeff Collier Mississippi’s worst damage
buffeted the U.S. Northeast photos of water covering The ship originally was sup- said workers were using was in coastal Jackson
with wind and rain Mon- some roads.Meanwhile, in posed to dock on Saturday heavy equipment to re- County, where Emergency
day while power crews the Southeast, utilities said after a five-day trip; it was move as much as 6 feet Manager Earl Etheridge
restored most electrical crews had restored electri- due in at 4 p.m. Monday. (1.8 meters) of sand that said officials have received
service on the Gulf Coast cal service to all but a few Some passengers com- washed across a more reports of about 200 dam-
and an overdue cruise ship thousand of the more than plained about the un- than 3-mile (4.8-kilometer) aged buildings. Some had
delayed by the storm finally 100,000 homes and busi- scheduled delay on so- stretch of the island’s main flooding from storm surge,
headed into port. nesses that lost power be- cial media, but Carnival road and more than 20 he said, but most had roof
With the center of the tropi- cause of Nate in Mississippi, spokeswoman Christine De side streets.“It moved the damage from high winds.
cal depression located Alabama, Louisiana and La Huerta said the ship had beachfront on to the road- County and state officials
near the eastern shore of Florida.Stuck in the Gulf of plenty of provisions and way,” said Collier. Also on also are investigating bar-
Lake Erie, forecasters said Mexico for two days be- would return when able. the Alabama coast, work- rels and large containers
parts of Pennsylvania and cause of Nate, the Carni- The ship has a total guest ers were fixing a more than that washed ashore and
New York could receive 2 val Fantasy began moving capacity of 2,056 people 1,500-foot-long (457-meter- may be holding hazardous
inches (5 centimeters) of toward its berth after the and carries a crew of 920. long) fishing pier that was chemicals, he said.q