The gunman behind Sunday night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas planned to flee, and he may have had help with planning the massacre, officials suspect.<\/p>\n
Stephen Paddock was “living a secret life, much of which would never be fully understood”, Sheriff Joe Lombardo told reporters.<\/p>\n
The gunman’s girlfriend\u00a0said she had no idea\u00a0what he was plotting.<\/p>\n
Paddock’s motive for killing 58 people in the largest mass shooting in modern US history remains a mystery.<\/p>\n
Police found the 64-year-old former accountant dead in a room on the 32nd floor of a hotel after he sprayed bullets on concert-goers below, injuring hundreds.<\/p>\n
He apparently turned one of his many guns on himself as police closed in.<\/p>\n
In a press conference on Wednesday, Clark County Sheriff Lombardo was asked if he saw evidence that Paddock had planned to escape after the attack.<\/p>\n
The sheriff said “yes”. Asked what it was, he said: “I can’t tell you.”<\/p>\n
Sheriff Lombardo was asked by a reporter if he thought Paddock had carried out the attack alone.<\/p>\n
“You’ve got to make the assumption he had to have some help at some point,” the sheriff replied.<\/p>\n
In the aftermath of the shooting officials described him as “a lone wolf” and said he was “solely responsible for this heinous act”.<\/p>\n
The FBI’s Aaron Rouse said no link to terrorism had been found so far, but they would not discard the possibility.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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