[ April 20, 2024 ]
Fifty-plus people are confirmed dead and there over 400 have been taken to area hospitals. One suspect named as Stephen Paddock is confirmed dead by Joseph Lombardo, the sheriff of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
Police have taken the shooter’s companion into custody. She was living with Stephen in Mesquite. She is believed to be an Australian citizen of Indonesian heritage. Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said detectives had found the woman, who he described as “Asian”, 4 foot 11 inches tall and weighing 111 pounds (50 kg).
“While initial reports claimed Paddock was a recent convert to Islam, Clark County Sherrif [sic] Joseph Lombardo said he had no knowledge of Paddock’s religious beliefs.”
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According to USA Today, law enforcement found a “cache of weapons” in Paddock’s hotel room. Law enforcement clarified which floor of the hotel he was shooting from and said they have not yet determined a motive for the attack:
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said officers determined the gunshots were coming from a room on the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay complex on the Las Vegas Strip. Officers stormed the room and killed the suspect, Lombardo said.
“Right now, we believe it’s a sole actor, a lone-wolf-type actor,” Lombardo said. He said a motive for the shooting had not yet been determined.
Las Vegas gunman identified as 64-year-old Mesquite, NV man
By David Rosenberg, Arutz Sheva, October 2, 2017:
Police take shooter’s female companion into custody after attack which left more than 50 dead, 100 wounded. 2 Police officers among dead.
Marilou Danley is being sought for questioning re the investigation into the active shooter incident. If seen please call 9-1-1! pic.twitter.com/Z83XvcHejH
— LVMPD (@LVMPD) October 2, 2017
The gunman responsible for a deadly shooting attack at a country music festival in Las Vegas has been identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, a resident of Mesquite, Nevada.
Police say Paddock had a criminal record, but no known ties to terrorism.
While initial reports claimed Paddock was a recent convert to Islam, Clark County Sherrif Joseph Lombardo said he had no knowledge of Paddock’s religious beliefs.
“As far as his history and his background, we haven’t completed that part of the investigation yet.”
“We have no idea what his belief system was.”
Authorities are now searching for the shooter’s companion, a 62-year-old woman identified as Marilou Danley, whom police have called “a person of interest”. KHOU-TV‘s Bill Bishop identified Danley as Paddock’s wife.
More than 50 people were killed when the gunman opened fire just before 10:30 p.m. local time Sunday night on the Route 91 Harvest Festival country music show at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas. In addition, some 200 people were wounded in the attack.
The attacker fired a fully automatic weapon from the balcony of a 32nd-story room in the Mandalay Bay hotel, hitting dozens of concertgoers. Witnesses say the gunman fired hundreds of rounds.
Police shot and killed the attacker, whose victims included two police officers. Two other officers were wounded by the gunman, including one officer in critical condition.
Clark County Sherrif Joseph Lombardo said the gunman was a resident of the Las Vegas area, but did not release the attacker’s name.
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45 Comments
6 years ago
So, Australia needs to be added to the travel ban list!
6 years ago
Useless to suggest increased gun control in the USA. Carrying is a constitutional right FGS – and kids and adults alke get shot aka murdered. And then the big game hunters like idiot dentists have specially bred lions to kill in African countries ruled by corrupt despots. If the US wants this sort of thing to stop it HAS to have better gun control. But then pigs fly and the moon is blue.
6 years ago
Reply to
Stephen Byers
Fact: Laws increase the crime-rate.
Fact: Criminals don’t care about laws.
“IF” the US wants this sort of thing to stop?
That sort of statement, right there, is near the root of the problem.
6 years ago
Reply to
Stephen Byers
If they were to have no guns Islamists would just murder people by running them over with trucks. That’s what they do in Europe.
6 years ago
Reply to
dangerousfreedom
Wait for it. The liberal morons will call for truck control next.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mary Mennona Ventresca
well, seriously, if we knuckle-draggers can’t just hop in a car and move someplace else because of “truck control,” they’ll have much better control over us. it makes sense.
6 years ago
Reply to
Stephen Byers
It’s easy to sit behind a keyboard and suggest that gun control would have somehow kept this man from doing what he did. The fact is, gun control has nothing to do with this. This is an evil person who picked up a gun. Period. The gun did not by itself kill anyone. The man did. We don’t see people calling for “knife control” whenever a terrorist uses that form of attack. Stupid.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
agreed and I am a Vegan animal and human rights activist ~ people kill guns are simply their tool of choice ~
6 years ago
Reply to
Stephen Byers
So much for gun control! Really there should have been no gun zone signs posted in the hotel room. Criminals always obey the laws, doncha know? http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/06/02/uk.england.gun.control/index.html
6 years ago
Facts are a bit sparse here, but with a consort with an Indonesian connection and reports of a recent conversion to the Religion of Pieces (as in pieces of human bodies), I detect the foul smell of Islam associated with this mass murder.
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Хорошо играл мой товарищ! Следите за хорошую работу для матери России!
6 years ago
Reply to
JC Bond
they may not know English ~ I don’t see a translation button so perhaps they were unaware there wouldn’t be one here ~ this is a massacre beyond comprehension ~ we pray for their families ~ mgf
6 years ago
Reply to
JC Bond
According to Google Translate, what JC Bond said was, “Well played my friend! Keep up the good work for the mother of Russia!”
6 years ago
The shooter was out of the FBI’s profile scope. 64 year-old white male living in a retirement community with no criminal record or history of violence. That’s the latest so far. The only scenario that makes sense is severe mental problems. Went off his meds or something. The good news is he’s in hell now. Waiting for CNN to tie this to Trump some how and call for gun confiscation.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ebayer
Yes, president Trump will be linked somehow. Little Chris Coumo and his sidekick Alisyn are working on that now.
6 years ago
Reply to
Fake News Analyst
Wolf Blitzer: “Run down any links whatsoever to the president. Was he a Republican voter? What were his views on immigration and banning Muslims? A member of the NRA? Anything you can find. I’ll call Schumer for help on this….”
6 years ago
The shooter killed himself prior to the police gaining entry to the room. They just confirmed this in the last press conference.
6 years ago
Fake news! Didn’t really happen. Spot the actors. White senior citizen shooter? Government conspiracy…. Trump is President…. confusion… Trump tweeted about…. malfunction…. computation error…. must be Muslim terror therefore. Need to find real shooter.
6 years ago
Reply to
JC Bond
Companion of shooter of Indonesian heritage. Indonesia 87% Muslim. 100% of Muslims agree with Muhammad. Muhammad promoted terror.
6 years ago
Reply to
Serdar Nazar
as an #exMuslim lived almost 30 years among them, i confirm this!
But Serdar,
When you were a Muslim, do you think you promoted terror? I hope not. I would be interested to know what you think caused you to turn away from Islam- and why did you respond differently than so many other people from purportedly similar backgrounds?
I’ve tried to make the point here- and been thoroughly reviled for doing so- that Moslems are more or less like other people. They may “good people” or “bad people”, but like most people, they accept the values imbued in them when they were young. It is the enslaving ideology of Islam that is the enemy of the numan spirit and to those who value liberty.
I don’t think that 100% of Muslims agree with the more extreme statements of Mohammad. It’s simply that many don’t know an alternative (and part of the reason for that is the tyranny that Islam imposes on people). Site like this should give those Muslims all the more reason to question their ancestral faith, as oppose to the “eliminate all muzzies” sentiment that some idiots here promote.
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
The problem with Islam is that never has any Islamic scholar been able to produce any argument using Koranic scripture to live peacefully among others, to love thy neighbor as thyself, or even that is wrong to kill infidels. In fact, the opposite is true and Terrorists can and do justify what they do using the Koran. It’s an evil religion started by an evil man.
6 years ago
Reply to
Robinske2
Oh yes there was.
Nonie Darwish- I believe it was she- has pointed to the example of an imam in a Cairo mosque who preached a sermon about tolerance and love of your neighbor. The poor chap so angered the assembled faithful that he had to flee the mosque for his life.
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Well said. It’s important to distinguish between Muslims — who, as you say, are just people, most good, some bad, like everybody else — and the ideology of Islam.
Treating someone poorly just because he or she is a Muslim is illegal discrimination, bigotry.
But giving the “bad” Muslims a free pass, to do things that we freely condemn when NON-Muslims do it — like killing people, or raping — on grounds “it’s their culture,” is just insane.
The murderers and rapists see Western media and leadership’s refusal to call a spade a spade, and condemn their hatred and intolerance, as a sign of weakness, proving the jihadists RIGHT. And that makes them redouble their efforts to bring us down.
It’s as though many of the “intellectual” elites of the West just don’t give a damn about anything any more. They are not having babies (Europe would be depopulating, if not for Muslim immigration). They don’t believe in religion any more. They don’t believe in a national purpose. They are lost in a fog of existential anomie and angst and doubt. They meet the most brutal terrorism not with effective action, but with a yawn, and denial.
Thanks to aware voices like Ms. Geller’s for constantly trying to wake people up. But don’t forget, folks — it’s the hate-filled IDEOLOGY of Islamism and jihadism we are really fighting against, along with those who support or espouse it, not the 1.5 billion ordinary people on the planet who happen to be born Muslim.
D
6 years ago
Cherchez la femme 🙂
6 years ago
The more things that go wrong in our country, in this world, the more Nancy Pelosi giggles with glee, “We’re winning!”
6 years ago
There’s one more spot in hell that just opened up.
6 years ago
Very unlikely it was a fully automatic weapon. Law enforcement and the media are the most ignorant people on earth when it comes to weapons.
D
6 years ago
The guy’s girlfriend was Indonesian, She hails from Obama’s real homeland.
6 years ago
Another contribution to humanity and American history, in general, by ‘the religion of peace’.
6 years ago
Another contribution to humanity and American history, in general, by the ‘religion of peace’.
6 years ago
Time to make islam illegal, with immediate deportation to anyone caught with a qur’an or any other muslim trinkets. If not eligible to be deported, 35 years jail, minimum.
6 years ago
Now what was it people were saying about more deaths caused by handguns than assault rifles? When the shooting starts, I’d rather the killer be using a musket than a machine gun.
6 years ago
Marilou Danley: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know By Heavy.com “…According to CNN, the sheriff says that Danley was “identified as Paddock’s companion or roommate,” adding that “she does not appear to have been involved in the shooting and was in the Philippines when the massacre took place…Paddock had been using some of her identification.” However, police now say she is in Tokyo, and they want her to return to the United States to talk to investigators. Her family is from the Philippines. According to ABC News, sources said Paddock had sent “tens of thousands” of dollars to someone in the Philippines in recent months. The mother and grandmother, whose now deleted Facebook page was full of photos with family members and trips overseas, was described by police as a 4’11” Asian woman. Police stopped short of calling Danley a suspect in the early morning hours of October 2 when they initially released her name, but they said they wanted to talk to her about the carnage. The shooter opened fire on the crowd at a Route 91 Harvest country music festival near the Mandalay Bay…”
http://heavy.com/news/2017/10/marilou-danley-photos-las-vegas-shooting-suspect-girlfriend-person-of-interest-shooter-route-91/
6 years ago
Proof there was more than one shooter, from a taxi driver at the Mandalay who didn’t know exactly what was going on at first but started filming;
Vegas Shooting Taxi Driver’s Video ! Must Watch B4 Well You Know , The Take Down ! By Barbie Sioux Cherokee Sparrow Hawk Published on Oct 2, 2017 Cori Langdon at Mandalay Bay In taxi line
https://youtu.be/fEf7HObspB0
6 years ago
Indonesian? That means Marilou is a Muslim. Hmmm how can that be relevant?? FBI you are truly imbeciles!!!
6 years ago
He was planing this for a long time wich highly resembles islamic terrorists. IMHO, he was convert but kept it secret not to call attention before executing masacre. Everything points to islam. Certainly he was not a Christian, neither was he a Conservative, they do not do this kind of shiiit. By deduction he was a muslim, leftist antifa type terrorist, they do this kind of shiiit all the time. Time will tell if I am right or if I am rrright.
6 years ago
Sometimes the last person you would suspect has converted to Islam. Had it been widely known that he was a convert the FBI and DHS would have already been watching him because of all his gun purchases. That’s why they don’t let it be known….
Most people don’t know that John Brennan -head of our National Security under the Bushs and Obama…..converted to Islam while he was overseas in Desert Storm……
If he were truly “mentally ill” there would be many more signs that this was the case for quite some time….mental illness is not something you can conceal. It is reactionary and evident.
But Islam is a different type of “mental illness”….they pride themselves on stealth, lying, and concealing to the glory of Mohammed and Allah.
And this man was very careful not to be discovered in his plans….it requires purposeful and steady planning…truly mentally ill people can’t conceal their mental illness to do all he was doing.
And where would he get ammonia nitrate? Just like where did the San Bernardino terrorists get all their weapons? Where did he get all of these high powered weapons and ammo? We are told repeatedly that the nitrate, guns, and weapons are very carefully tracked and raises suspicion with authorities…..or that is all a lie.
He had suppliers of all of this…..only Muslims would have kept his secrets….black market Muslims that Obama brought into our country by the thousands…and then failed to track them.
I also find it highly suspicious that his foreign girlfriend/companion/roommate was suddenly on the other side of the globe just as he executed his plans…..it will ultimately turn out that this woman is his contact for all of his weapons and the nitrate…wait and see. Just like the Florida night club shooters wife who turned out to be aware of what he was doing and could have warned authorities.
I think there is much more that we need to know.
