The documents released on Tuesday following a court battle between police and media outlets also identified a second person of interest in the case, Douglas Haig, who in a previous conversation with Newsweek said he never knew “wacko” Paddock. But he did supply him with ammunition.
An Arizona man who sold hundreds of rounds of ammunition to the Las Vegas shooter said Stephen Paddock told him during one of their encounters “he was going to go put on a light show.”
Douglas Haig, of Mesa, had been named by police Tuesday in newly-unsealed court documents as a “person of interest” in the investigation into the Oct. 1 massacre in which 58 people died and hundreds of others were injured.
“He said he was going to go put on a light show,” Haig told CBS News. “And I can’t remember whether he said for or with his friends, but that’s what he did say.”
And in a bizarre revelation, the papers showed that police believed that Paddock had purchased a black vase full of fake flowers from Walmart four days before the shooting and brought them into his suite. Police requested a search warrant on October 31 to seize the flowers, the Las Vegas-Review Journal reported.
What?
Police May Have Witnessed Las Vegas Gunman Stephen Paddock Kill Himself, Newly Unsealed Documents Suggest
Newsweek, January 31, 2018:Police responding to the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history may have witnessed gunman Stephen Paddock commit suicide inside his Las Vegas hotel room, newly unsealed documents indicate. The revelation contradicts previous police reports that the shooter was already dead when authorities arrived.
“As SWAT officers breached room 135, they observed Stephen Paddock place a gun to this head and fire one round,” one page of court documents released on Tuesday stated.
The account differs from that of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Joe Lombardo, who has said numerous times that officers found 64-year-old Paddock dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound when they breached his room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. Moments earlier, Paddock had shot 58 people dead from his shattered hotel room window.
On Tuesday, Lombardo told the Las Vegas Review-Journal he could not comment on the document because he had not read it. He referred requests to Police Sergeant Jerry MacDonald, who is expected to comment on Wednesday, the newspaper reported.
MacDonald had reported the SWAT team observed Paddock’s suicide while requesting a search warrant over the phone at 3 a.m. on October 2. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Larry Hadfield told the Las Vegas Review-Journal MacDonald’s statement may have been inaccurate.
“During the early stages of the investigation, search warrants were completed with the known facts at the time. A search warrant is requested and information provided is preliminary and establishes the probable cause and reason to search the premise. The preliminary report released on January 19 is a more complete picture of the investigation as we know it now. As the investigation unfolds, we will have more accurate information available at a later date,” Hadfield said.
On January 19, police released an 81-page-long preliminary report detailing its investigation into the massacre containing two different passages, in which investigators said that Paddock was already on the floor when authorities entered his room.
“The Strike Team reported Paddock was down from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head,” page 15 said.
“Team 2 encountered Paddock lying on the floor on his back. The officers believed Paddock had a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” investigators wrote on page 30.
The documents released on Tuesday following a court battle between police and media outlets also identified a second person of interest in the case, Douglas Haig, who in a previous conversation with Newsweek said he never knew “wacko” Paddock.
And in a bizarre revelation, the papers showed that police believed that Paddock had purchased a black vase full of fake flowers from Walmart four days before the shooting and brought them into his suite. Police requested a search warrant on October 31 to seize the flowers, the Las Vegas-Review Journal reported.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department did not immediately return a request for comment from Newsweek.
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Newsweek? Might as well have quoted musings from a toilet stall wall in the bar.
Expect a big misinformation campaign..photos of the scene that were released early after the shooting show spent cartridges on top of the blood with no discernible signs of blood spatters on any of them obviously indicating the he was dead before the cartridges were ejected from a rifle even if this is one of the two locations from which shots were fired, and I might add that careful acoustic analysis taken from cell phone recordings provided to the media before they were confiscated by the authorities confirms shots being fired from 2 locations, one about 250 yards from where they were striking the ground or other surfaces and another from about 450 yards, which could be the hotel room. It is based on simple science and even the location of the gunmen could be determined if the labs knew the location of the recording devices in order to triangulate the radius from each device.. Curiously all of those recordings and all other info from that day and 2 prior days were deleted from those phones before they were returned to the owners. That last fact was confirmed by many media outlets.
and just exactly how did he shoot himself and one rifle on tripod is straddling leg and never knocked over pointing toward couch, wrote the note, got up turned around laid down and shot himself I doubt it. Never told how many were gunshot victims and how many trampled or caliber bullets!
Amazing man who’s psycho-sociopathy included a girlfriend, letting his planes be used by Catholic charities to fly orphans in from the Philippines where he met the girlfriend, hauls all those superfluous guns up to his room just to give us something to ponder and accomplishes another amazing feat by firing a bumpstock semi simultaneously with tripod like an expert auto sniper. But wait.. he stops shooting for almost an hour just “because” but doesn’t fire at cop assault team like he did an unarmed guard.
Time was when you read Newsweek for the Democrat version of events, Time for the Republican view, and Mad for the unslanted version. Nowadays, National Enquirer is giving the sh*thole media a run for its money.
newsweek and time are a total waste of paper, if they were printed on soft paper then sold by the roll, they would be of some use. Things like the national inquirer are now the flagship of the printed media.
I stopped reading Tme Mag in the early 70’s. Someone later gave me gift subscription to it. It would travel from my mailbox straight to my garbage can, unread.
At one point it was almost worth a quick glance, now, useless as the paper is glazed.
I don’t believe anything the FBI or the sheriff have to say.
Remember, Paris Paradise, who ran people over in Vegas with her daughter in the back seat? Witnesses heard her screaming allah bakrur and yet in the end it was a random hit and run by the SAME people. BTW she recently changed her name just before doing this. I have to wonder did she know about the PARIS massacre in the theater in PARIS? They believe the go directly to PARADISE when they murder the infidel.
BTW this guy, Paddock made 21 trips to the middle east.
HOW ODD IS THAT? Of course the first thing they said was it was not a MUSLIM terrorist act… yet look at his FACIAL hair…
The F_I-B can’t be trusted anymore, but what do they have on Las Vegas Metro PD to make them keep quiet? This F_I-b coverup of a muslum terrorist attack would require the cooperation of Las Vegas Metro PD.
You’ll have to tell me.
WHY did they LIE about the Vegas situation where PARIS PARADISE ran over people with her car screaming the usual phrase allah bakur.
Witnesses HEARD her.
This thing is becoming worse than the Kennedy assassination.
They are hiding ALLOT of stuff.
it’s the same FBI team and sheriff that covered up the Paris Paradise slaughter with a car.
When it comes to the massacre of Christians, the Federal Bureau of ISLAMIZATION will do its utmost to cover up everything
EXACTLY!
This makes the Warren Commission “cover up” (if one existed) look like a Sunday regatta at the yacht club, picnic lunch furnished.
The longer this case sits the stronger it smells.
There is too much information that is missing. Many people who knew quite a bit of information suddenly died. There were reports of more than one shooter and shootings at several other places in Vegas at the same time.
I still cannot help but wonder whether he really was a Muslim convert turned jihadist. Certainly the Islamic State continues to insist so.
They (isis) has never made a false claim, along those lines, before.
Paddock had ties with the Phillipines. The Phillipines has mudscum/mudslimes but I do not know how many. I do know that during the Spanish American War in 1898 the mudscum/mudslime Moros who were high on drugs and kept attacking the US troops and would not go drop when hit with a 38 special bullet, so the US army brought back the 45 colt which had no problem taking them down. That is why when the Army decided to adopt a new service pistol in 1911 they went with the 45ACP, which was still in sevice till the 1980s or 1990s.
He was ANTIFA…..trained by radical Muslims….and later claimed by ISIS….
during the year before the attack he and his madam took a cruise down the European coast….with three stops in Muslim countries….Danley’s relatives live in Dubai…..she is from the Philippines where Muslims murder people every day….especially Christians and Buddhists…..
Don’t believe anything the corrupt FBI, CIA, and DOJ tell us…..
the feds have always lied and murdered all innocent Americans who protest and stand their ground
kill the bum
fbi bullschiff cover-up
Story seems to change all the time. Pretty soon they’ll say the crowd fired at Paddock and he had no choice and one got ’em in the head.
Ummmm…. Okaaay…….
At the outset, Chief Lombardo used to give regularly scheduled press briefings in order to cut down on confusion and wild conspiracy theories as well as to accommodate the public’s right to know. That is, until the feds took over the investigation. Now crap like this is the order of the day.
There are three ways of doing things: the right way, the wrong way, and the government way.
It’s like Reagan said…..when the government shows up and says they are here to help you…..be afraid…very afraid….
A search warrant to seize plastic flowers. Can’t have anyone smoking plastic flowers in their motel room. Not because they’re PLASTIC, but because it’s a non-smoking room.
Cops are TRAINED to lie to people, it’s called conundrum, or “questioning” to you civilians. They are trained on how to circumvent the Constitution. Such training makes ALL cops feel like they’re getting away with something and this is the spark that pushes too many cops to become corrupt. They lie (cover) for themselves, each other, and to the public. Isn’t it a crime to lie to cops? Is it a crime for cops to lie to you? Ask the next cop you see if they lie to people. Ask them if it’s a crime to lie to a cop. Ask them if it’s a crime if they lie to you. Ask them about conundrum. Ask them if they are trained to work around the Constitution. Ask them, why don’t cops inform people if their rights BEFORE they begin to question them? Ask them, why are there bad cops? Ask them, shouldn’t ALL cops be good? Don’t just ask them, do it with a microphone and a video camera, see how they react. BLUE lives matter? Common courtesy is one thing, respect is another, can you repect anyone when they deliberately lie to you?
Why are so many in LE STILL investigating and wasting $? A spent shell casing is a spent shell casing, how can evidence be so D- different for everybody in LE? How many billions of ways can you look at something? After a while all you can is ask what are the facts? What do we know what do we not know? Why is there so much S- flying out of the mouths if LE? F-ing A, wrap it up already.
Paddock was ANTIFA funded by Soros…..trained and funded by ISIS….Danley was his contact with Antifa….when you accept that…you have all your answers….but the Leftist “intelligence agencies” don’t want Americans to know that and panic….
2 months before the Las Vegas attack the Daily Mail in the UK quoted ISIS after the attack on the concert in the UK…..they specifically name 3 American cities they were going to attack…..Las Vegas was one of the three….and…they claimed Paddock as their own…
After what we’ve learned about the FBI, DOJ, and Clapper’s DNI,why would anyone trust a dam thing they say?
I read that 81 page police report & as Pamela says, it doesn’t say Paddock shot himself–Sad when the feds & state feel the need to lie to Us
The initial reports that this murderer was acting alone without giving any indications of his intentions was not believable. It has not become any more believable since that time.
Perhaps the F_I-b is going w/the Goebbels doctrine of propaganda: tell a big lie often enough and it’s accepted as truth.
Perhaps.
arrest all the feds who covered this evil up. seize all assets and give it to the victims and the families. them allow those feds to commit the clinton suicide.
I call bull shavoki on all this. I think it is a giant miss direction and cover up. We will never know what the really happened or the motive behind it. So…with that being said I believe it was mudslim terrorism. Prove I am wrong.
I believe Las Vegas was part of a failed coupe.
https://youtu.be/xbQ-_Ja71JQ
https://youtu.be/5ujsdLxBcZg
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/02/us/douglas-haig-las-vegas-massacre/index.html
A second man was charged in connection with Las Vegas shooting his name is Douglas Haig.
He claims his armour piercing bullets had tracer rounds and were not used at Vegas shootings but were found at the scene and they met briefly at a gunshow where Paddock purchased the bullets
But there are more connections then this firstly Paddock used to work at Boeing and Haig is a space aeronautical engineer who also had a contract with Boeing and had top secret clearances with DOD for those in the know the Boeing connection also confirms a pedophelia connection too, Paddocks laptop was found with paedophilia materials.
There is massive blackout including on this website on the truth of the matter, we saw the same thing with Pulse nightclub shooting where perp worked for worlds largest security firm and had very high US government clearances including access to embassies his father waa involved with CIA.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/brinkmann-on-business/os-bz-pulse-g4s-lawsuit-20170322-story.html