Las Vegas Shooting Gunman May Have Planned Earlier Attack Before Targeting Concert
LAS VEGAS — Marilou Danley, the girlfriend of the gunman in the Las Vegas mass shooting, is expected to return to the United States from the Philippines for questioning, a federal law enforcement official said on Tuesday.
The authorities are scouring the personal and financial history of the gunman, Stephen Paddock, 64, just days after one of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States, which left 59 people dead — including the gunman — and about 500 others injured. The federal official said Mr. Paddock wired thousands of dollars to the Philippines and the F.B.I. was scrutinizing the transaction.
Twelve rifles the gunman had in his hotel suite on Sunday were outfitted with a “bump stock,” a device that would enable them to fire hundreds of rounds per minute, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearmsand Explosives said at a news conference late Tuesday.
• The police received the first call about shots being fired at 10:08 p.m. Sunday and Mr. Paddock stopped shooting at 10:19 p.m., around the time security guards approached his 32nd-floor luxury suite in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
• Mr. Paddock had placed one camera inside his hotel room, over the peephole facing the hallway, and two outside his room, including one on a service cart. “I anticipate he was looking for anybody coming to take him into custody,” Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said.
• Jill A. Snyder, a special agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said that 47 firearms — rifles, shotguns and pistols — had been recovered from the hotel suite and at two Nevada properties Mr. Paddock owned. The weapons were purchased in California, Nevada, Texas and Utah, Ms. Snyder said.
• Undersheriff Kevin McMahill confirmed the authenticity of leaked photographs of the deceased gunman, with a revolver by his side, and of his hotel suite, showing ammunition and rifles. An internal investigation has been opened into the release of the photos, he said.
• Investigators also were looking into whether Mr. Paddock had planned an earlier attack in Las Vegas before deciding to target the concert on Sunday night, according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
• Sheriff Lombardo said all but three of the victims had been identified as of Tuesday afternoon. These are some of their stories.
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