New CCTV Footage Shows Las Vegas Shooter Assembling His Arsenal at Hotel
Source: The Daily Beast
Previously unseen CCTV footage from the Mandalay Bay Hotel, where Stephen Paddock shot 58 people dead last October, shows the murderer methodically planning his attack and duping staff into carrying his stash of deadly weapons to his room in more than 20 suitcases. The footage, obtained by The New York Times, also shows Paddock eating and gambling alone in the hotel in the days leading up to the attack. Over the course of seven days, Paddock tricked staff into bringing 21 bags to his suite on the 32nd floor, which contained 23 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition. The shooter asked to stay with his luggage each time it was brought up to his room and the footage shows staff taking him and his bags to the 32nd floor via a service elevator. Paddock is also shown frequently driving to and from his hotel, returning with bags picked up from his home in Mesquitean hour north of the hotel. The last sighting of Paddock is of him arriving at the 32nd floor in an elevator around nine hours before he began the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
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bucolic_frolic
(42,681 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,384 posts)And this was brought up at the time.
It is NOT out of the ordinary.
If you spend any amount of time at hotels that are associated with conventions, particularly larger cities, you will find many people bringing in lots of suitcases for the events that they're a part of. It's standard stuff.
Even when I do just ~one~ panel at a convention, I'm bringing in multiple pieces of luggage and boxes for it and that's not including any clothes or other supplies.
JHB
(37,133 posts)...so an average of 3 bags a day. Not hard to see that blending into normal traffic for a Vegas hotel.
Blue_Adept
(6,384 posts)You'd be going and purchasing things and bringing them back home with you as well, so coming and going with bags is not a red flag.
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, checking in with no bags is the huge red flag.
Paladin
(28,204 posts)Turning up to mail a couple of boxes, while wearing a cheap blond wig and rubber gloves. File that one as yet another instance of White Privilege......
Merlot
(9,696 posts)With some other qualifying characteristics.
mountain grammy
(26,573 posts)Wed be bombing the shut out of civilians as we speak.
IronLionZion
(45,269 posts)think about the last time you've moved to a new apartment. I've done that at hotels. So I would have a lot of stuff like cooking supplies, computer/monitor, clothes, etc. with me in an extended stay hotel for 6 weeks doing contract jobs where I didn't have any place to live and moved constantly taking only what fit into my 2 door Honda Civic with no passengers. That's how many H-1bs actually live when they steal your jobs away.
Brown skin is more suspicious than lots of boxes. And I had both.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,790 posts)Actually, they needed to shut up long ago.
rickford66
(5,498 posts)I worked at a resort for a few years. You pay the bell boys and they carry your stuff. Period.
Blue_Adept
(6,384 posts)Combined with the number of people that have never seemingly stayed in a hotel, it's nuts just how much bad info gets out there.