Police Chief: We Believe Las Vegas Shooting Suspect Killed Himself

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo speaks during a news conference about an incident involving NFL football player Michael Bennett, at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Headquarters in Las Vegas, Friday, Sept. 29, 201... Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo speaks during a news conference about an incident involving NFL football player Michael Bennett, at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Headquarters in Las Vegas, Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. Lombardo says officers acted appropriately and professionally detaining Bennett after a report of gunfire at an after-hours club on the Las Vegas Strip. (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP) MORE LESS
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The suspected perpetrator of a mass shooting in Las Vegas Sunday night fatally shot himself before police forcibly entered his hotel room, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Monday morning.

“We believe the individual killed himself prior to our entry,” Lombardo said at a press briefing Monday morning, asked about the scene in the shooter’s hotel room when police forcibly entered.

Asked about what his officers found in the shooter’s hotel room, Lombardo said: “We are still going through the search warrant actively at this time, but it’s in excess of 10 rifles.”

Lombardo identified the shooting suspect as 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock, a white male from Mesquite, Nevada. At the press conference, Lombardo said Paddock “received a citation several years ago, and that citation was handled as a matter of normal practice in the court system.”

Paddock is alleged to have shot into a crowd of concert goers from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. He killed at least 50 people, according to police, making Sunday night’s shooting the deadliest in American history. In June 2016, Omar Mateen killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

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  1. The bad guy with the gun turned into the good guy with the gun and killed the bad guy with the gun.

    Just like the NRA says.

  2. “So…what you are saying is that Deep State agents drugged this guy, took him up to his hotel room, and massacred Trump supporters, then suicided this guy”?

    Everybody on Reddit and 4 chan.

  3. This is all the result of letting O.J. out on parole. No other possible explanation.

  4. Avatar for zsak zsak says:

    Jason Aldean is bad luck.

    Friends told authorities that Barron went to get a drink during a Jason Aldean concert on July 18 and was not seen again. One of the stadium’s garbage chutes at the top of the stadium was located not far from the section where Barron was sitting. The chute emptied into a large trash container below. Barron attended the concert with his parents, siblings and friends.

  5. Asked about what his officers found in the shooter’s hotel room, Lombardo said: “We are still going through the search warrant actively at this time, but it’s in excess of 10 rifles.”

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