Midweek Sport

HOW MANY WOULD HE HAVE KILLED?

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POLICE nicked a tooled-up suspected would-be mass killer in what they feared could have led to a Las Vegas-style shooting attack.

Russell Ziemba was arrested for criminal trespassin­g and assaulting police officer.

But he is suspected of wanting to do something far worse.

The 49-year-old was “drunk and angry” towards other guests at the Hyatt Regency in Houston, Texas, early on Sunday morning.

He was asked to leave a – but an officer spotted ammo and three guns, including an assault rifle, inside his room on the 28th floor.

Married Ziemba told police he was there to celebrate New Year’s Eve and that he had been drunk “for days”.

He claimed the guns HORROR: Guns found at Hyatt and Las Vegas carnage were in his room because night with the door open he was worried they would and music blaring, which be stolen from his truck. was “unusual”.

But cops fear he could Six days later, he was at have shot DOZENS of the Hyatt – raising concern innocent people from his about his real intentions. hotel room had he not On October 1 last year, been stopped. gunman Stephen Paddock

It emerged that a week opened fire on a crowd of ago, Ziemba had been concertgoe­rs at the Route arrested for unlawfully 91 Harvest music festival carrying a weapon. on the famous Las Vegas

A neighbour revealed Strip in Nevada. that Ziemba had sat in his Fifty eight people died garage on Christmas Day and 546 were injured.

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