Police reveal new details, say another arrest likely
Las Vegas, Nev., police took the unusual step Friday of releasing key details about the continuing investigation into the Oct. 1 shooting that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds of others.
Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a news conference that while he was confident that Stephen Paddock was the only gunman, there was another person under investigation who is likely to be charged in the next two months. No charges will be filed against Paddock’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley, Lombardo said. He also said there was still no motive known for the attack.
Investigators have uncovered extensive details about the internet search history on Paddock’s computer, including child pornography, guidance on ballistics and information about SWAT team practices. Law enforcement officials believe that Paddock had recently lost a “significant amount of wealth” and that that may have led him to open fire from his hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
Police published an 81-page preliminary investigative report detailing Paddock’s actions in the two weeks leading up to the attack as well as his plans to carry it out. Federal court documents unsealed last week made it clear that Paddock was meticulously prepared for the operation, the worst mass shooting in modern American history. According to the report released Friday, 851 people were wounded in the shooting, 422 of them by gunfire.
It was the first time Lombardo had spoken publicly about the case in more than two months. He said investigators had reviewed more than 2,000 leads and 21,000 hours of video.
“I am going against normal protocols,” Lombardo said, adding that he hoped the preliminary report would “quell the zest for information.”