Worst mass shooting in US history as gunman opens fire from above killing 50+ Vegas concert goers

Posted by DanielS on Monday, 02 October 2017 14:31.

NBC, BREAKING: “Death toll in Las Vegas mass shooting has risen to at least 58. 515 also injured, sheriff says”, 2 Oct 2017.

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Posted by death toll now 58/515 injured on Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:44 | #

NBC, BREAKING: “Death toll in Las Vegas mass shooting has risen to at least 58. 515 also injured, sheriff says”, 2 Oct 2017.


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Posted by Shooter's father a bank robber, otherwise ? on Tue, 03 Oct 2017 04:07 | #

Reuters, “Las Vegas gunman described as well-off gambler and a loner”, 2 Oct 2017:

(Reuters) - Stephen Paddock appeared to be settling into a quiet life a few years ago when the 64-year-old apartment manager and avid gambler bought a home in a quiet Nevada retirement community about an hour’s drive from the Las Vegas Strip and his beloved casinos.

Those who knew Paddock say there was no sign he was capable of holing up in a room on the 32nd floor of a casino hotel, the Mandalay Bay, and opening fire with multiple guns on a country music festival, killing at least 59 people and wounding more than 520 in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

“He was a wealthy guy and he liked to play video poker and he liked to go on cruises,” the gunman’s seemingly baffled brother Eric Paddock told reporters from his doorstep in Orlando, Florida, on Monday.

“He’s never drawn his gun, it makes no sense,” Eric Paddock said. He said he was aware that his brother had a couple of handguns he kept in a safe, perhaps a long rifle, but no automatic weapons.

Police say they recovered a total of 34 weapons belonging to Paddock, including 16 from the hotel room and 18 at his home in Mesquite, a small desert town popular with golfers and gamblers. Some were automatic weapons or semi-automatic rifles illegally modified into machine guns.

Eric Paddock described his brother as peaceful, saying he moved back to the red desert hills of Nevada because gambling is legal there and he hated Central Florida’s humidity.

Paddock apparently lived in Mesquite with his girlfriend, who was in Tokyo at the time of the shooting. Las Vegas police said they were seeking to interview her when she returned. Authorities said she had no connection with the attack.

The brothers were last in touch in early September, exchanging text messages about power outages after Hurricane Irma slammed into Florida, where their mother still lives.

“He had nothing to do with any political organization and religious organizations”, Eric Paddock said.

Itinerant existence, gambling

Their father was Patrick Benjamin Paddock, a bank robber who was on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Most Wanted list in the 1960s and essentially unknown to his sons. The shooter himself had no criminal record, Las Vegas police said.

In recent weeks, Paddock made gambling transactions worth tens of thousands of dollars, although it was unclear whether they were wins or losses, NBC News reported, citing unidentified law enforcement officials.

Public records point to an itinerant existence across the American West and Southeast: Florida, a few years in California, a few years in other parts of Nevada.

A spokeswoman for Lockheed Martin said Paddock worked for a predecessor of the company from 1985 to 1988, but offered no other details.

Paddock had a hunting license in Texas, where he lived for a while. He got his pilot license and had at least one single-engine aircraft registered in his name.

In early 2015, he bought a modest two-story home in a new housing development for retirees on the dusty edge of Mesquite, which straddles Nevada’s border with Arizona.

“It’s a nice, clean home and nothing out of the ordinary,” Quinn Averett, a Mesquite police department spokesman, told reporters on Monday.

The FBI said Paddock had no connection with international militant groups.

Before moving to Mesquite, Nevada, he lived in another town called Mesquite, in Texas, where he worked as the manager of an apartment complex called Central Park. The Washington Post reported that Paddock had also worked as an accountant and had real estate investments.

Records as recent as 2015 list Paddock as single, though it appears he may have married while living in California in the 1980s.

Paddock’s age places him in the minority of mass shooters, said Laura Dugan, professor of criminology at the University of Maryland.

“Most shooters are fairly young,” Dugan said. “Right now with this particular case, it’s baffling. Why would a guy in his 60s who seems to be well off go and do a thing like that?”


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Posted by DanielS on Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:59 | #

Haven’t been following this too closely, but am prepared with a hypothesis for what I know:

Paddock did well for himself in American, Western, Las Vegas terms and probably felt on many occasions that he was not being given sufficient respect and recognition for that from what he would perceive as those who should be his peer group - was probably treated as invisible for the most part, despite having marked success in their terms.

He decided that he was going to get their attention and revenge for their lack of respect - a species of unrequited love; you tend to hate most those who you feel should be on your side but betray you.


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Posted by Shooting at The Borderline Bar & Grill on Thu, 08 Nov 2018 14:07 | #

Another gunman targets an (implicitly White gathering) of country music fans. This time at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California - according to FBI statistics, the third safest community in America (and not near a literal national borderline, despite the Bar’s name): California mass shooting: At least 12 killed at Thousand Oaks bar


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Posted by Garlic festival on Mon, 29 Jul 2019 06:36 | #

CNBC, 29 July 2019:

At least 4 dead, 15 wounded in shooting at Gilroy Garlic Festival in San Francisco Bay area

What we know:

—4 dead, including a gunman, 15 others wounded in shooting at Gilroy Garlic Festival in city some 80 miles southeast of San Francisco

—Gilroy police quickly shot the gunman dead

—Search on for possible accomplice

Four people including a suspect are dead and 15 others wounded after at least one gunman opened fire Sunday evening during the last day of the Gilroy Garlic Festival, authorities said. Hundreds of people were sent scrambling for safety, CBS San Francisco reports.

Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee told reporters in a late-night briefing that Gilroy officers engaged a suspect within a minute of shots ringing out and killed him.

Smithee said witnesses told authorities at least one other person may have been involved in the shooting but there was no confirmation of that or the role he or she might have played. He said a search was underway for the possible accomplice.

Smithee said the suspect or suspects appeared to have cut through a wire fence at a creek bordering the festival grounds to gain access.

There was no early word on a possible motive. Witnesses told CBS San Francisco the gunman appeared to be firing at random. Some witnesses said he suddenly appeared from behind a stage before beginning to shoot.

“It’s just incredibly sad and disheartening that an event that does so much good for our community has to suffer from a tragedy like this,” Smitee added.

The shooter is described as a White man, no motive has been proposed as yet.

What’s not to like about garlic?


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Posted by mancinblack on Mon, 29 Jul 2019 21:45 | #

The gunman who killed three people and wounded a dozen more at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in North California was an angry nineteen year old who had recently waded into the world of white supremacy

Santino William Legan, who was shot dead by police Sunday before he could do any more damage, posted online about an 1890 racist manifesto “Might is Right or the Survival of the Fittest” NBC News confirmed.

“Read Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard” Legan posted on his Instagram page. He then used slurs against mixed race people and misogynistic descriptions of white Silicon Valley workers, complaining about “hordes” of them “overcrowding” towns.

More…

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gilroy-garlic-festival-gunman-referenced-might-right-manifesto-shortly-shooting-n1035781

At first I thought he might have been a vampire but that seemed a little implausible even in America. My second guess was sadly correct, it appears. Here we go again. Toxic as fuck….



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