SLIP-SUIT VID OF ‘SLOVENLY’ GUY
LAS VEGAS gunman Stephen Paddock’s hotel room held 23 lethal weapons, endless rounds of ammunition — and a video camera that he mounted on the door.
The 64-year-old killer placed cameras inside and outside the 32nd-floor suite where he fired for nine minutes at 22,000 helpless concert attendees, according to police Tuesday.
A pair of cameras were hidden on a room service cart from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino left in the hallway.
Another was peephole.
“There were two cameras located in the hallway so that the suspect could watch as law enforcement or security approached his room,” said Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill. “And there was another camera placed inside the hotel room door peephole so that he could see down the hallway.”
Paddock executed at least 58 victims before killing himself. Officials said 527 people were injured. attached to a
The early-warning system installed by the gunman apparently alerted him to the presence of a hotel security guard who was shot in the leg when Paddock fired at him through the door.
Two days after the massive carnage at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, police had yet to uncover a motive for the premeditated massacre.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo remained certain that investigators will uncover what sent Paddock on the 80-mile ride from Mesquite, Nev., into Las Vegas with his massive arsenal.
“I expect a substantial amount of information to come in over the next 48 hours,” he added.
One fellow gambler at a casino near Paddock’s home recounted a bizarre incident from a few months back when he shared a blackjack table with the shooter.
“He said, ‘I wish I could just go kill my mom. I don’t know why the hell she brought me into this world,’ ” recalled Leo Miller, a regular at the Eureka Casino.
“Everybody at the table couldn’t believe what he said . . . When he was sober, he was nice as anybody. His drinking got to the point where he didn’t even know what the hell he was doing on the table.”
Ex-cop Hope Ahrens, 63, said Paddock and his live-in girlfriend Marilou Danley, 62, stopped in most mornings for coffee and a Krispy Kreme donut at her gas station. Danley would also pick up two cheap bottles of wine for $3 each during the morning stop.
Paddock’s brother, Eric, said the killer, on occasion showed a confrontational side. He hated cigarette smoke so much that he carried around a cigar and would blow smoke in the faces of people who lit up around him.
More details emerged from the terrifying scene across the Las Vegas Strip from Paddock’s hotel room.
Twelve off-duty firefighters, including four providing CPR to gunshot victims, were wounded.
Cops released chilling body camera footage of several officers under fire during the height of the carnage.
At least 45 victims of the shooting spree still remained in critical condition — 33 at Sunrise Hospital and another dozen at University Medical Center.
Authorities said the were struck by some injured of the hundreds of bullets fired, hit with shrapnel or trampled as the terrified concert crowd ran for cover.
Paddock also mysteriously sent $100,000 to an account in the Philippines in the days before his furious killing spree.
NBC News reported the money was sent to the home country of Danley, who was visiting the Philippines when her boyfriend was hunkered down inside his Vegas hotel room.
Law enforcement officials told NBC that it was unclear if the money was meant for Danley and her family or for some other purpose.
Investigators are trying to determine what Danley knew ahead of the attack. She has been named her a “person of interest,” and FBI agents met her at Los Angeles International Airport Tuesday night upon her return to the U.S.
And more than a dozen FBI investigators descended Tuesday morning on the concert siteturned-killing field, arriving in unmarked cars to scour the area for clues. The agents wore blue protective shoe covers and jackets marked “FBI” as they returned to the scene of the crime on the Strip. VIDEO EMERGED Tuesday showing the mishap that lead Stephen Paddock to file an unsuccessful slip-and-fall lawsuit against a casino — years before he became the most lethal mass killer in modern U.S. history. Paddock, 64, fell to the floor as he walked through the Cosmopolitan Hotel on Oct. 30, 2011, surveillance video shows. He was going from a hotel store to a high-roller area in the casino. Paddock claimed to have slipped on a puddle of liquid that hotel staff failed to clean up and demanded $100,000 in compensation. The former accountant — who was a frequent visitor to Las Vegas — tore a hamstring. He incurred more than $32,000 in medical bills, records show. The case went to arbitration in 2014. But the arbitrator dismissed it after officials at the hotel successfully argued their cleaning staff didn’t have notice about the liquid spill that caused Paddock to fall. The hotel’s lawyer, Marty Kravitz, said Paddock was “slovenly and careless” and “bizarre.”