{"id":358865,"date":"2017-10-04T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T06:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=358865"},"modified":"2017-10-04T06:30:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T06:30:39","slug":"las-vegas-shooting-paddock-placed-cameras-in-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/las-vegas-shooting-paddock-placed-cameras-in-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas shooting: Paddock placed cameras in hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"
Stephen Paddock, the gunman who killed 58 people and injured more than 500 in Las Vegas on Sunday, set up a number of cameras in and around his hotel suite.<\/p>\n
Two cameras in the hallway and one in the peephole allowed him to see if “law enforcement or security” were approaching, police said.<\/p>\n
Officers are still trying to determine why Paddock, 64, opened fire on a concert from the Mandalay Bay Hotel.<\/p>\n
However, they do know there was a high degree of planning.<\/p>\n
The authorities in Las Vegas revised the death toll down from 59 on Tuesday evening, saying that one of the bodies was that of the gunman.<\/p>\n
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters: “This individual was pre-meditated. Obviously pre-meditated, the fact that he had the type of weaponry and the amount of weaponry in that room.<\/p>\n
“It was pre-planned extensively and I’m pretty sure he evaluated everything he did in his actions.”<\/p>\n
Undersheriff Kevin McMahill suggested the attack may have stopped when Paddock was disturbed, shooting a security guard.<\/p>\n
The shooting – the worst in modern US history – has sparked debate over US gun laws, but President Donald Trump has said the discussion over what, if anything, needs to be done was “not for now”.<\/p>\n
He earlier described Paddock as “a sick man, a demented man”.<\/p>\n
But a senior US homeland security official, speaking on condition of anonymity to news agency Reuters, said there was “no evidence” of “mental illness or brain damage”.<\/p>\n
Nor have police found links to any foreign or domestic terrorist organisations.<\/p>\n
Paddock, who appears to have killed himself before police stormed his hotel room, had no criminal record and was not known to police.<\/p>\n
However, police found 23 guns in Paddock’s hotel room, as well as firearms and explosives at his home. In total, across three locations, 47 firearms have been recovered, officials said.<\/p>\n
Photos from the hotel room of guns used in the attack have been obtained by\u00a0Boston 25 News<\/a>.<\/p>\n Police still consider the woman thought to have been his girlfriend, Marilou Danley, “a person of interest”, he said, adding they were “in conversation”.<\/p>\n