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Las Vegas massacre - Oct 1st, 2017 at 10 pm Police said Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old resident of Mesquite, Nevada, opened fire on a music festival crowd from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, killing 59 people and injuring 530 others. Officials revealed on Tuesday that Paddock had cameras set up inside and outside of his hotel room. "I anticipate he was looking for anybody coming to take him into custody," Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said. Sources told ABC News the suspect utilized at least one camera outside the room possibly to monitor approaching police. Lombardo said there was a camera on a service cart in the hallway. "FBI took all digital and electronic evidence into custody," Lombardo added. The gunfire sent more than 22,000 country music fans attending the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival across the street from Mandalay Bay scrambling for their lives. Some hid, some ran and others sprang into action, aiding the injured and helping people to safety. Jason Aldean was the headliner of Sunday night's concert; video showed him rushing off the stage amid the gunfire. Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said at Tuesday night's press conference that the shooting spanned between nine and 11 minutes, with the first reports of shots beginning at 10:08 p.m. and the final shots being fired at 10:19 p.m. The Las Vegas Police Department said authorities responded to a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, where Paddock was found dead. Authorities said they believe Paddock killed himself prior to police entry. ABC News on Tuesday obtained images from inside Paddock's hotel room at Mandalay Bay. A body is partially visibly in one of the photos; that is Paddock. As the nation mourns what has become the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, authorities are working to piece together information about the suspected shooter for clues on what may have sparked the rampage. The motive behind the shooting remains unclear. "I can't get into the mind of a psychopath," Lombardo said at a news conference Monday. Paddock is believed to have been solely responsible for the attack, according to police. Lombardo said authorities are reviewing police body cameras. "This individual was premeditated," Lombardo said today. "I'm sure he evaluated everything he did in his actions, which is troublesome." "The world has changed. And, you know, who would have ever imagine this situation," Lombardo said. "I couldn't imagine it. And for this individual to take it upon himself to create this chaos and harm is unspeakable."   Honesty is the best policy. |
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NRA is a despicable, shameful and disgusting group of people who enjoy killing and violence. They make money out of selling guns and weapons including those "semi-automatic", "bump stocks" even "automatic". Do we need those killing machines? Are NRA people bulletproof? Do they have hearts? Do they care about people's lives? Why those lawmakers are afraid of NRA? Trump doesn't believe in "Global Warming", so we have Hurricane Harvey in Texas, Hurricane Irma in Florida and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Biggest flood, biggest wind, in the recent 40 years in our history. Trump is pro-2nd Amendment, so we have the most casualty in Las Vegas, NV. So far, Trump says NOTHING about "Gun Control". We have North Korea nuclear Hydrogen bomb and missile threats, but Trump had the time to tweet about NFL players kneel and lock arms during National Anthem to protest White cops shot unarmed Black kids. What is more important North Korea threat or NFL players' protest? Go figure !! NFL players have "1st Amendment" right. Honesty is the best policy.
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Thanks for your compliment on Taiwan. Because president Jimmy Carter abandoned Taiwan in Nov of 1979 and established diplomat relationship with mainland China, I had to leave Taiwan under Chinese government weapon threat to bomb Taiwan to flat. I quit my good earning pharmacist job and came to California. Taiwanese people are very kind, friendly and smart as many of my Caucasian friends praised. We are "Democracy" bipartisan (3 political parties) country, we have Presidential election every 4 yrs, we have our own flag, and national anthem and we never had "Cultural Revolution" that killed millions of their own people, especially intelligent people. Anyway, before I came to USA, I knew that Americans have too much freedom of owning weapons. I saw "Sears" and "Big Five Sports" displayed guns, rifles in the store in 1980, I was frightened. The situation is getting even worse nowadays. People can buy "Assault weapons", "semi-automatic", "bump stock" in the name of "self-defense". Even hunting, it is not necessary to use those machine gun to hunt animals, let along they use those assault rifles to kill people. Life is precious. No one have right to cut other's people life short. Those NRA people said "guns don't kill people, people kill people". I say "if there is no gun, there won't have killing". How many times we have gone through those heartache to read the headline news?? I have read many stories of Las Vegas survivors described how terrify they experienced on Sunday night. Those stories brought tears to my eyes. The lawmakers should pass some legislation to ban the sell, manufacture, advertise of "Assault weapons", "semi-automatic" or "bump stock" machine guns. No more killing. Stop killing !! Honesty is the best policy.
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Marilou Danley, the live-in girlfriend of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock, and now a "person of interest" in the shooting investigation, is a Philippines native who has used two Social Security numbers during her two-plus decades in the United States, and was married to two men at the same time, public records show. The person who may hold the key to solving the mystery of why the Vegas gunman killed 59 and wounded nearly 600 people led a convoluted life of her own, with two simultaneous husbands, a bankruptcy, two Social Security numbers, multiple addresses in several states and even different ages depending on which state records you review. The details are part of a Newsweek investigation into Danley's past, which takes on a new urgency now that the FBI is frantically working to bring her "immediately" back from overseas for more information about the shooting and the $100,000 Paddock wired to her family there days before the shooting. Marilou came to the U.S. as Marilou Natividad, married Geary Danley in 1990 and took his surname. Danley, 76, lives in Arkansas, but he has declined to answer questions. In 1996, Marilou wed Jose Bustos, and became Marilou Bustos. But she did not dissolve her marriage to Danley until 2015, divorce records show. Both marriage licenses were filed in Clark County, which includes the city of Las Vegas, even though the Danleys lived in Tennessee and Arkansas around the time of their marriage, and the Bustoses lived in California. Marilou also has a daughter, currently living in California, but it is unclear whether one of her husbands, or another man, fathered the child. In California, her name is registered as Marilou Natividad-Bustos and her birthday is listed as January 1962, making her 55 years old. Under a different Social Security number in Nevada, her name is Marilou Lou Danley and her birthday is listed as December 1954, making her 62. At times, her identities merged: Marilou filed for bankruptcy in 2012, under the name Bustos, while she was still married to Danley and living with Paddock in Reno. Her lawyer during the bankruptcy has not yet responded to a request for comment. Marilou travels back to California often to visit her daughter there, Reno neighbors told Newsweek. Marilou held multiple addresses, some simultaneously—in Arkansas, Tennessee, California, Florida and other states, and often moved through cities within those states. Though the police initially cleared Marilou of any involvement in Sunday night's shooting, on Tuesday, Sheriff Joe Lombardo called her a "person of interest" in the investigation again at a briefing in Las Vegas. It is rare for an individual to have multiple Social Security numbers, though it is legal to get a new one issued if the first one has "been misused" in a way that caused hardship, a 2014 report from the Social Security Administration said. There have been a few instances in which new immigrants to the U.S. end up with two Social Security numbers: once when they entered the country and once when they applied through an SSA office. Newsweek has reached out to Marilou’s ex-husbands, family, and neighbors at her various residences. Two neighbors in Reno, who knew her under the name "Danley" while she lived with Paddock, on Monday called her and Paddock recluses who often left their home for extended periods of time. A federal immigration spokesperson declined to comment, citing Marilou's "privacy rights." An FBI spokesperson referred questions to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, which did not respond to a request for comment. The Social Security Administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Honesty is the best policy.
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The lawmakers (Congress and Senate) should pass law(s) to prohibit to sell, to manufacture, to advertise, ... semi-automatic or automatic weapons ASAP. For self-defense reason, only pistol can be sold, make or advertised. For hunting reason, rifles only one shot at a time. There are no reason to have those killing machine guns to be owned by any citizens. Too much of FREEDOM of 2nd Amendment that killed so many innocent people, school shootings, in the theater, in the shopping mall, ... now from a casino hotel room window. I came from Taiwan in 1980 (37 & 1/2 yrs), there are no gun shop, no department store, no internet or magazine sell guns, not mention those semi-automatic machine guns in Asia. Asians live in much safer places. Yes, there are murder cases using knif, hammer, or heavy object, but the casaulties are very minimum. Enough freedom of 2nd Amendment already. We are in modern civilized society that is very different from the time when Constitution was written. Let the NRA disappear from USA. No more shooting from machine guns, no more killing rampage. We need peace in schools, in a theater, in a shopping mall, in a music concert, on a street, and everywhere. I wonder why God didn't appear to stop these non-sense random killings. If the prayers work, why let those 59 innocent lives passed. Let us make law to eliminate those killings by machine guns. Honesty is the best policy.
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I have had real estate investment in Las Vegas since Nov. 2003, so it is near and dear to me. I have known some real estate agents, some property management teams, some tenants, ... Las Vegas is a gamble city (sin city) and casinos open 24 hrs and hire three-shift employees. Those employees need a place to rest and sleep, so they rent condos and houses. I bought more in 2011 when almost every street had signs said "Foreclosure, for sale". Those rental payments became my retirement income as I retired from pharmacist jobs to take care of my mom for near 5 years. She passed away in Sept 2013. I sold 2 properties six months before my mom's passing for her funeral. After this shooting rampage news, I either call, text, or email to those friends I know living in Las Vegas. They responded that they are all Okay including the lady who emails me jokes weekly. This sick person, Stephen Paddock, was born and raised in Nevada, but he owed 42 weapons (23 in the hotel room and 19 in his home). According to his brother said that guy was a multimillionaire, but liked to gamble. Their father robbed several banks and been caught and put in the jail. That guy had no criminal record, so he had never been the police "person of interest" list. His girlfriend was in Philippines during the carnage shooting, but she returned to USA on Oct 3rd and FBI is investigating her to get information about the murderer. Every time we have had massacre shootings, "gun control" will be the topic on TV, internet, magazine, ... but as time went-by people forgot it. USA is the top one that people own guns. Trump is pro-2nd Amendment. When France had massacre shooting at a concert, Trump said the good guys should have guns to self-defense themselves. This killer of Las Vegas carnage was on 32nd floor in Mandalay Bay casino hotel. By the time the "good guys" reached the hotel room, that killer shot himself. So, Trump still wants "2nd Amendment"?? Too many guns and semi-automatic rifles are easy to buy from gun stores, magazines, internet and trading places. This massacre is not the first time and won't be the last time either. People have too much freedom, too many excuses "self-defense" to own guns. Do we really need semi-automatic guns? Gun and weapon are only for one purpose that is killing. NRA has too much power and Trump is one of their member. Trump will go to Las Vegas on Wednesday, what he gonna say? How many innocent people have to die?? Honesty is the best policy.
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