Vegas Warrants: More questions than answers

Redacted warrants and affidavits for the Mandalay Bay shooting have been published. Sadly, the data dump is only from local Vegas LE. It does not include federal investigation information. That’s important because federal agents would be investigating violations of federal law like the reported fully-automatic weapon(s) that fell out of the official narrative once victim-disarming politicians decided bump-fire was a good target for new gun people control laws. I still want to see ballistics reports that show what weapons were used, and what those weapons were.

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Multiple warrants appear to use identical copy/pasted portions of the affidavits. This appears in quite a few:

Upon breaching the door, officers entered and located a deceased male suspect with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
[…]
Despite this suspect being neutralized, several other callers at various locations along The Strip continued to report active shooters inside of hotels and sightings of people with firearms.

Due to the mass casualty event that was still very dynamic and multiple other callers reporting other ongoing incidents, it appeared there may be several other suspects involved.

He’s dead, but someone else is still shooting? And note: they found the dead body.

Um… Maybe not.
SW-17-971C&D, October 2, 2017, Telephonic Search Warrant, Sgt. Jerry MacDonald

SWAT officers arrived on the 32nd floor and pinpointed the shooter’s location to be in room 32-135. As SWAT officers breached room 135, they observed Stephen Paddock place a gun to his head and fire one round. (emphasis added-cb)

A local Fox5 report leaves open the possibilities that MacDonald misspoke, although that sounds like an oddly specific way of misstating that they found a dead body. “Sorry; I accidentally said they witnessed the dead guy put a gun to his head and kill himself.”

By Wednesday afternoon, after I drafted the above paragraph, MacDonald pretty much said just that:

“He absolutely killed himself before anyone got into the room,” Sgt. Jerry MacDonald told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
[…]
“That night was crazy. You get information coming in. It’s fluid, and none of it is confirmed,” he said. “And that’s par for the course when you’re doing telephonic search warrants. You base those search warrants based on what you believed up to that point.”

I could see telling the judge, “Yeah, officers saw him shoot himself” or “Subject killed himself on entry.” But specifically, “As SWAT officers breached room 135, they observed Stephen Paddock place a gun to his head and fire one round.”?

Two other affidavits put it this way:

Tactical entry was made into the room in order to preserve life under exigent circumstances and law enforcement located a deceased male with a gunshot wound.

and

Tactical entry was made into the room in order to preserve life under exigent circumstances and law enforcement located a deceased male with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

“Apparent.” In light of the photo (warning: graphic) showing expended brass on top of the seemingly coagulated blood, we’re left with more questions: If he died on entry, how did brass end up on top of the blood, if the shooting in the suite had stopped an hour before? If he died earlier, and they found the body, how did brass end up on top of the blood?

There are other little oddities in the warrant info. Why did he need two “personal massagers”? Different types, for different applications? Two people? The fact that he had his passport with him might be significant or not. While in the US, most folks I know leave their passport secured at home. But reports indicate the Mandalay bay shooter was enough of a world traveler that he might have kept his in a go bag out of convenience.

What’s up with the vase and flowers?

Where did the missing hard drive go?

Then there’s the other redacted (except for the one instance a clerk initially missed) “person of interest,” which law enforcement claimed as a reason not to unseal the warrants, as revealing him would compromise the investigation. Only, due to said clerical error, we learn that Douglas Haig apparently did nothing but sell a box of a tracers at an Arizona gun show. Is he somehow significant, or was he a convenient excuse to keep the records sealed, hiding the oddities we’ve just seen?

Two entrees, two pair of gloves, two rooms, two shooting postitions, two personal massagers, ballistics calculations and scoped rifle and spotting scope, other rifles with no sights and bump-fire stocks…

One shooter.


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4 thoughts on “Vegas Warrants: More questions than answers”

  1. And the Clark County (NV) coroner is refusing to release the shooter’s autopsy report, in apparent defiance of a court order: https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/02/coroner-refuses-to-release-las-vegas-murderers-autopsy/

    That report could answer a lot of questions, or it could create more (or both).

    One item in particular I’m interested in, given the multiple pairs of gloves, the multiple cell phones, the missing hard drives, and all the rest, is the contents of his stomach.

    Sounds gross, I know, but he ordered two entrees via room service, right? It’s possible for one man to eat two entrees if he is hungry enough, but something as simple as the stomach contents will tell us if he ate both, or not. If not, that’s evidence that someone else was there.

    The “tin foil hat” section of my mind is guessing the coroner knows the answer to that question AND the implications, and has no intention of letting that answer out.

  2. I’m going out on a limb here but there were more than one shooters IMHO.

    But I am sure we can count on the FIB to find out the truth.

  3. As I said before elsewhere, the longer it goes without any real information, the more convinced I become, that the narrative that they would like everyone to believe is no where near the truth.
    What we are seeing now mismanagement of a badly bungled cover up.

  4. Well I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
    First off – The democrat party has “evolved” into a radical progressive socialist party working for international interests to achieve the George Soros world vision. Standing in their way is US sovereignty, the US Constitution, and the US Bill of Rights, ESPECIALLY THE SECOND AMENDMENT! Violence to force their agenda is employed across our nation – BLM – LaRazza – ANTIFA – all Soros funded AND Loretta Lynch funded. EPA clean air regs not met by corporations had prosecution waived for donations in lieu of fines – money was funneled to these orgs. At a time after they were SO CLOSE – an election changed EVERYTHING. Instead of GUN CONTROL America was on the verge of THE HEARING PROTECTION ACT – CONCEALED CARRY RECIPROCITY – SUPREME COURT DECLARING MD ASSAULT WEAPON AND HIGH CAPACITY MAGAZINE BAN UNCONSTITUTIONAL (And along with it the laws in CT – NY – RI – MA – CA etc) They had NO POLITICAL POWER TO STOP IT!

    Then Las Vegas – All pro-gun legislation was shelved and we were back to GUN CONTROL!

    The most risky part of setting up to commit this act is smuggling the rifle into position undetected. TWENTY SOMETHING RIFLES???? ON DISPLAY AROUND THE ROOM??? Only one reason, the big photo op after the fact to force gun control. (I heard he dealt arms? So who duped him into bringing them up there if that’s the case?) Sounds like we need a law – to keep us safe – something like ONE RIFLE PER MONTH. Reasonable – sensible – WHO KEEPS TRACK – WHO KEEPS RECORDS – sounds like the PRIZE – THE GRAND JEWEL – Australian style gun buyback firearm database. They can’t do it without the database – 13% compliance in CT – 4% compliance in NY to register (to confiscation list) or dispose of.

    And of course it makes no sense to everyone – WHY DID HE STOP SHOOTING SO LONG BEFORE POLICE GOT THERE?
    Because the ones who were shooting needed time to get away before the cops got there to find the dead patsy on the floor, surrounded by every type of rifle that needs to be OUTLAWED for citizen ownership.

    After all, NO ONE NEEDS 10 BULLETS TO KILL A DEER! Sensible, right?

    The Second Amendment is not a right to a firearm that a politician is comfortable “allowing” American citizens – IT IS A RIGHT TO A CAPABILITY. Can’t be a deterrent to tyranny . . . or atrocity, with a low capacity sporting arm against a super high tech militarized gestapo army.

    All gun control is designed to TAKE THE CAPABILITY!
    After “the capability” – total citizen disarmament.
    Then the atrocities.
    Hell, their ideologues are already speaking publicly about WHITE GENOCIDE!
    They weaponize minorities by fanning flames of anger speaking of WHITE SUPREMACY . . . it is EVERYWHERE, to commit mob violence. Demonizing whites on college campuses and in the news conditioning whites to “check their privilege” – keep their mouths shut – that they deserve the hatred – and “get in the back of the protest” – know your place.
    Too much like Nazi demonization of Jews.
    Progressives are the new Nazis.
    They will do EVERYTHING it takes to force their agenda.

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