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HAIR-RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT VEGAS MYSTERY KILLER

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The Las Vegas massacre: 59 dead and more than 500 injured. Unarmed, innocent people shot from a distance by someone they could not see using weapons they couldn’t imagine.

We’re told it’s the most deadly gun massacre in American history. It was, without doubt, a horrible killing scene.

For all the usual excess of Vegas, this was not the kind of situation and publicity the city could ever have imagined. In fact, it wasn’t the kind of situation any American city could ever imagine.

Who would do such a thing? How could such a horror happen?

But that’s just the beginning of a long list of unanswered questions. Judging by the events of the last few days, it appears that the list of questions gets longer, as does the lack of answers.

We know the who: 64-year-old Stephen Paddock.

He was in the suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. He was surrounded by 23 weapons, some modified to be automatic, and two tripods that he used to support the guns, making them ideal for the sniper he fancied himself. There was almost no limit to the ammo on hand – hundreds, if not thousands, of rounds. He had the suite and the hall outside set up with cameras. He also left his notes as to his calculations of angles and trajectory of shots to make his “kill rate” more precise.

And he was effective – in the indiscriminate killing and maiming of fans attending the country music festival – and, ultimately, effective in killing himself: a shot in the mouth, in the hotel room, did that.

But he left too many unanswered questions.

This was something I first heard about on the radio, then saw on the Internet. But it also came close to home. A relative of my daughter’s close friend was killed. Yesterday, I learned that my dental hygienist was scheduled to be there, in Vegas, having planned to attend the concert during her husband’s first visit to the city.

But as fate would have it, he took ill the night before, so they didn’t go. Yes, fate.

But what about those questions?

Who was the woman in the crowd 45 minutes before the shooting, telling people they would die that night? She was led away, we were told. But by whom? To where? Who was she?

No answers.

How did Paddock get all that weaponry into his hotel room without arousing attention? 

How did housekeeping not notice what he had in the suite and raise questions? 

Did he refuse any housekeeping maintenance during his four-day stay in the suite, which was comped by the hotel because he was a high-roller gambler? Is that the reason no one asked any questions about him?

Who knows?

His car at the hotel was found to have hundreds of rounds of ammunition and explosive material in it – but it wasn’t wired to detonate.

It was reported he had female companionship over those few days at the hotel. The latest is that police have identified the local prostitute he was with, but they have not released that information.

Paddock’s live-in girlfriend was first reported in Mexico, then in Tokyo, and then it was changed to be the Philippines, where she has relatives. It’s also reported that he wired $100,000 there, but we don’t know for certain who received it or its purpose. She has since returned to the U.S. and was questioned by the FBI, but few details have been released.

First news reports were that she saw nothing unusual about his behavior, yet others quote her as saying he would “cry and scream at night in bed.”

State records shows that he was prescribed an anti-anxiety drug in June, by a doctor in Henderson, Nevada. He got 50, 10-mg tablets. It isn’t known if he took the meds or specifically why it was prescribed.

Paddock had houses in Arizona and in Nevada – weapons were found there as well.

Neighbors scarcely knew him, and he often wasn’t on the premises. But when he was, he was not overtly friendly.

He held a number of jobs over his lifetime, none of which lent themselves to enable him to be a millionaire, which he is said to be. Apparently, he was a high-roller gambler and was lucky at that. How much he is worth or where he kept his wealth are questions not answered.

His brother insists, Paddock “just snapped” – an excuse that’s hard to believe given the coordination needed to set up the “sniper nest” he arranged in the hotel to carry out the attack on the innocents below.

And speaking of “coordination,” another main question is: How did he do all this alone? It seems doubtful, although there’s no indication of who might have helped in the planning and execution.

One point bothers me: He broke out two windows in the suite, but they were nine windows apart. If he had guns set up at each, then he would have had to run between guns at each window.

Yet, if you listen to the shots, it doesn’t seem there was enough of a lapse between volleys of shots to indicate this. It doesn’t make sense unless there was someone else with him in the suite doing the firing.

Naturally, speculation is wild about what happened and why.

All the while, the brave police, civilians and others who moved in to save victims are the ones who should be commended. They risked their lives to help the victims of the shooting, and the medical personnel at local hospitals are doing their heroic best to save the lives of survivors.

Will we ever know why this horror took place and whether there are others who should be held responsible?

Somehow, I doubt it. I guess my cynicism is showing.

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