Original title: Las Vegas gunman identification: licensed and armed
By 1 p.m. local time on October 2, at least 58 people had been killed and 515 injured in the shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest shooting in American history. In 2016, 49 people were killed in a shooting at the pulse club in Orlando, Florida.
The Las Vegas metropolitan police confirmed the gunman as a 64 year old white man, Stephen paddock. During the outdoor concert of "road 91 harvest festival" at about 10 p.m. local time, gunmen opened fire on 22000 people in the 32nd floor room of Mandalay Bay Hotel opposite the outdoor concert venue. According to the video released on the scene, the audience of the concert screamed loudly and hurriedly ran around with the sound of gunfire. Police said many people were trampled on as all the spectators fled desperately.
Witnesses at the scene said the shooter shot for more than 10 minutes.
The area where the shooting took place is located in Las Vegas' Las Vegas strip 'area, which is the most crowded tourist hot spot area. It has many of the world's largest hotels and casinos and entertainment cities, and it is the' only way 'for a large number of tourists to visit Las Vegas.
Police are still investigating the motive for the deadly shooting. Police said he was dead when SWAT officers stormed into the hotel room where the gunman was, believed to have killed himself, and they found more than 10 rifles in his room. According to the latest information released by the police, the gunman has had several large gambling records in recent weeks, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars. The police didn't say whether the gambling result was win or lose.
In a national address to the shooting, President trump called the attack 'an act of total evil. Trump said he would go to Las Vegas on Wednesday.
Who's the killer?
Las Vegas Police Chief Joseph Lombardo said at a news conference that the murderer was a Nevada resident, 64 year old white male Steven padoc. According to the preliminary investigation results of the police, there is no record that padoc has been implicated in terrorism, no criminal record of padoc has been found in the data of the federal government, and in the data of the local police, padoc has violated the traffic laws and regulations.
According to the latest police investigation, padoc had a flight license and two private planes, as well as a hunting license in Alaska.
Police pointed out that padoc had been in and out with a woman several times in the past period and had used her identity documents, but when padoc checked in at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, the woman did not accompany him. Police said the woman was a Filipino born Marilou danley, who was overseas at the time of the shooting and was' ruled out 'after questioning her.
Murderer's brother: I can't think of his motive
After the shooting, Las Vegas police immediately searched padoc's home in mesquite, Nevada. In addition to finding some weapons, the police said 'this is an ordinary family house that can no longer be ordinary'.
Police pointed out that padoc's mesquait is a retired elderly community, which needs to be over 55 years old to live here.
When asked by FBI agents after the shooting, his brother Eric paddock, who lives in Florida, said that there was no sign that his brother would commit such a crime before. "He was just an ordinary person at ordinary times, with no violence tendency, no one even beat him, and no political organization or religious group. For us, it's all a shock. '
Eric said that he was not close to his brother, but occasionally contacted him. The last time he contacted him was after the hurricane hit Florida. "At that time, he sent a text message to ask how his mother was in her 90s. '
Eric told police that his brother lived in Central Florida and moved to Nevada about two years ago because he didn't like the humid climate in Florida, and because he liked playing video poker games, he moved to Las Vegas, a dry gambling city. Eric said that his brother may have had one or two pistols before, but there was no machine gun, let alone a large number of guns.
Eric also revealed to the police that his father, Patrick paddock, was wanted by the FBI in the 1960s as one of the "top 10 most wanted criminals in the country". Patrick was arrested and jailed for bank robbery. After escaping from prison, he successfully lived under a pseudonym. After the FBI issued a warrant for Patrick in 1969, he was arrested again in 1977.