Metro closes case on Oct. 1

LAS Vegas police on Friday released the final report on their massive Oct. 1 shooting investigation. The biggest finding? What they couldn’t find: a motive.

Ten months after the Route 91 Harvest attack, Metropolitan Police Department investigators were unable to piece together why lone gunman Stephen Paddock carried out the massacre that left 58 concertgoers dead and hundreds more injured.

Authorities investigated about 2,000 leads. They watched about 22,000 hours of video. And they combed through hundreds of thousands of images, along with other evidence. But no one could link the gunman’s actions to any hate group or terrorist organization. Paddock left no suicide note or manifesto and was not in debt.

“By all accounts, Stephen Paddock was an unremarkable man whose movements leading up to Oct. 1 didn’t raise any suspicion,” Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said at a Friday news briefing.

In January, police released a preliminary report on the shooting and said the public could expect a final report eventually.

At 7:30 a.m. Friday, Las Vegas police suddenly announced the 9 a.m. press conference at which Lombardo read from a prepared statement, answered questions from a small crowd of reporters and said the final report would be posted on the department’s website shortly.

By about 9:30 a.m., the report appeared online. It marked the end of Metro’s involvement in the case “unless new information comes to light,” the sheriff said.

Later this year, the FBI is expected to release its own report on the mass shooting.