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U.S. NEWS Friday 6 OctOber 2017

Las Vegas gunman may have been planning other attacks

By KEN RITTER stakes gambler opened fire
MICHAEL BALSAMO on a crowd of 22,000 Sun-
Associated Press day night from the 32nd
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Inves- floor of the Mandalay Bay
tigators are looking into hotel casino in Las Vegas.
whether gunman Stephen He killed 58 people and in-
Paddock scoped out big- jured nearly 500 before tak-
ger music festivals in Las ing his own life.
Vegas and Chicago — A federal official said au-
and perhaps Boston’s Fen- thorities are looking into
way Park — before setting the possibility Paddock
up his perch in a casino ho- planned additional at-
tel and raining deadly fire tacks, including a car
on country music fans. bombing. The official
Paddock booked rooms wasn’t authorized to dis-
overlooking the Lollapaloo- cuss the matter publicly
za festival in Chicago in Au- and spoke to The Associ-
gust and the Life Is Beautiful ated Press on condition of
show near the Vegas Strip anonymity.
in late September, accord- Authorities previously dis-
ing to authorities recon- closed Paddock had 1,600 Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo listens to a question during a media briefing at Metro Police
structing his movements rounds of ammunition in headquarters in Las Vegas Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017. Investigators are looking into whether gun-
before he undertook the his car, along with fertilizer man Stephen Paddock scoped out other events before setting up his perch in a casino hotel and
deadliest mass shooting in that can be used to make raining deadly fire on country music fans.
modern U.S. history. explosives and 50 pounds (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)
It was not clear if he con- of Tannerite, a substance tigators have been frus- semi-automatic rifles into mality or had a terminal ill-
templated massacres at used in explosive rifle tar- trated to find that he lived fully automated weapons. ness that prompted him to
those sites. gets. a “secret life,” Lombardo Paddock apparently used lash out.
Investigators looking into Investigators have been said, “much of which will such devices during the The weekend before the
Paddock also came across combing through his never be fully understood.” bloodbath. massacre, he rented a
mention of Fenway Park, background but remain In other developments: — The coroner’s office in room through Airbnb at the
Boston police Lt. Detec- stumped as to his motive. — In a rare concession Las Vegas would not re- 21-story Ogden condomini-
tive Mike McCarthy said, The profile developed so on gun control, the Na- lease details of its autopsy ums in downtown Las Ve-
though he provided no fur- far is of a “disturbed and tional Rifle Association an- on Paddock. Some behav- gas and stayed there dur-
ther details. dangerous” man who ac- nounced its support Thurs- ioral experts have won- ing a music festival below
The details came to light quired an arsenal over day for regulating “bump dered whether the 64-year- that included Chance the
as investigators struggled decades, Sheriff Joseph stocks,” attachments that old Paddock suffered from Rapper, Muse, Lorde and
to figure out why the high- Lombardo said. But inves- can effectively convert some kind of brain abnor- Blink-182. q
4 shot to death in Arizona duplex in domestic violence case

CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) isolated crime. following a 911 call about a suspect, Anderson said. from the duplex after shots
— Four people were found “We don’t have a motive gunfire at about 8:15 a.m., Weapons have been re- were fired.
shot to death Thursday in- for the shooting at this time, Anderson said. covered from the scene, Mindy Edwards, who has
side a housing duplex in an but this is some kind of do- The victims appeared to be he said, but it wasn’t yet lived in the area for about
apparent case of domestic mestic issue,” said Officer adults and were all shot to known whether they were six months, told The Arizona
violence, police said. Thomas Anderson, a Casa death, Anderson said. used in the killings. Republic that the neigh-
One possible suspect was Grande police spokesman. Authorities were working to A witness told police she borhood was rife with drug
in custody and police said “The shooter knew the identify them, and it wasn’t heard a door being kicked and other criminal activity.
they were talking to an- people inside. The extent of immediately clear if they in and then people yelling, Dawn Schroeder, who has
other man to see if he was that relationship, we don’t were related, he said. followed by gunshots, a lived in the neighborhood
connected to the killings in know that yet. But it wasn’t Neighbors provided police woman screaming and a since 2001, told the news-
Casa Grande, 40 miles (64 random.” with descriptions and au- car speeding away. paper it was a decent sec-
kilometers) south of Phoe- Police and medical person- thorities were able to iden- Another neighbor told po- tion of town with an occa-
nix. Authorities called it an nel discovered the victims tify someone they believe is lice he saw two men run sional drug bust.q