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A4 U.S. NEWS
Saturday 7 OctOber 2017
Frustrated police appeal for public’s help in Vegas case

“If you know something, to fire continuously like an
say something,” said Aar- automatic weapon, and
on Rouse, agent in charge set up cameras inside and
of the Las Vegas FBI office. outside his room to watch
“We will not stop until we for approaching officers.
have the truth.” In a possible sign he was
Paddock, a reclusive contemplating massa-
64-year-old high-stakes cres at other sites, he also
gambler, rained bullets on booked rooms overlooking
the crowd at a country the Lollapalooza festival in
music festival Sunday night Chicago in August and the
from his 32nd-floor hotel Life Is Beautiful show near
suite, killing 58 and wound- the Vegas Strip in late Sep-
ing hundreds before taking tember, according to au-
his own life. thorities reconstructing his
McMahill said investiga- movements leading up to
tors had reviewed volumi- the deadliest mass shoot-
nous video from the casino ing in modern U.S. history.
and don’t think Paddock His arsenal also included
had an accomplice in the tracer rounds that can im-
shooting, but they want prove a shooter’s firing ac-
to know if anyone knew curacy in the dark, a law
about his plot beforehand. enforcement official told
A memorial displaying 58 crosses by Greg Zanis stands at the Welcome To Las Vegas Sign on It is unusual to have so few The Associated Press.
Thursday, October 5, 2017, in Las Vegas. Each cross has the name of a victim killed during the clues five days after a mass It wasn’t clear whether
mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival this past Sunday. Dozens of people shooting. McMahill noted
were killed and hundreds were injured. Paddock fired any of the
(Mikayla Whitmore/Las Vegas Sun via AP) that in past mass killings or illuminated bullets during
terrorist attacks, killers left the high-rise massacre.
By KEN RITTER they announced plans to “We still do not have a clear notes, social media post- Paddock bought 1,000
BRIAN MELLEY put up billboards appeal- motive or reason why,” Un- ings and information on a rounds of the .308-caliber
Associated Press ing for the public’s help. dersheriff Kevin McMahill computer, or even phoned and .223-caliber tracer
LAS VEGAS (AP) — After Investigators have exam- said. police. ammunition from a private
five days of scouring the life ined Paddock’s politics, “We have looked at literally What officers have found is buyer he met at a Phoenix
of Las Vegas gunman Ste- his finances, any possible everything.” that Paddock planned his gun show, a law enforce-
phen Paddock and chas- radicalization and his social The FBI announced that attack meticulously. ment official not autho-
ing 1,000 leads, investiga- behavior — typical investi- billboards would go up He requested an upper- rized to comment on the
tors confessed Friday they gative avenues that have around the city asking any- floor room overlooking the investigation said on con-
still don’t know what drove helped uncover the motive one with information to festival, stockpiled 23 guns, dition of anonymity.
him to mass murder, and in past shootings. phone 800-CALL-FBI. a dozen of them modified Tracer rounds illuminate
their path so a gunman
can home in on targets at
night.
But they can also give
away the shooter’s posi-
tion.
Video shot of the pan-
demonium that erupted
when Paddock started
strafing the festival showed
a muzzle flash from his
room at the Mandalay Bay
resort, but bullets weren’t
visible in the night sky.
A federal official said au-
thorities are looking into
the possibility Paddock
planned additional at-
tacks, including a car
bombing.
The official wasn’t autho-
rized to discuss the matter
publicly and spoke to the
AP on condition of ano-
nymity.
Paddock had 1,600 rounds
of ammunition in his car in
a casino parking garage,
along with fertilizer that
can be used to make ex-
plosives and 50 pounds (23
kilograms) of Tannerite, a
substance used in explo-
sive rifle targets.q