Video Shows Las Vegas Gunman Gambling, Eating Alone and Filling His Suite With Guns

Via NYT

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Sometimes we see him as other hotel guests would have seen him: as the tall gambler intent on the video poker machine across the casino floor, or as the customer standing in line in front of you at the gift shop, buying snacks, or as the guy you briefly glance at as he waits for you to get off the elevator — polite, unhurried, unmemorable.

Sometimes we see him as the employees would have seen him, as the casually dressed V.I.P. with the many suitcases who jokes with bellhops, chats with valets and gives out tips along with handshakes. And sometimes we see him as only the surveillance cameras saw him — riding the elevator alone.

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Within a few days, he would use the arsenal he had moved upstairs in those suitcases to shoot and kill 58 people from his 32nd-floor suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

These were Stephen Paddock’s final movements in the days before he opened fire from his hotel suite on Oct. 1: an apparently relaxed solo vacation that, as surveillance footage obtained by The New York Times from MGM Resorts makes clear, was actually the methodically planned prelude to a massacre.

Rarely are investigators or the public able to track the preparations of a mass gunman in such molecular detail. Yet for all the material the footage offers about the who, the what, the where, the when and the how, we are no closer to the why.

Watching the footage, nearly six months later, is a kind of compulsive ghost-hunting. In the antiseptic stare of the surveillance camera, even the most ordinary interactions are deformed, made weird only by what we know now. It is unnerving because it ends in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. It is unnerving because even with his every movement laid out, the grotesquely composed protagonist of this film gives away nothing.

The faces of hotel guests and staff are blurred to preserve their privacy, reducing them to smudges that crisscross the screen at random. Mr. Paddock is the only person who appears throughout, the Waldo whose distinctive frame and faintly lopsided gait our eyes quickly learn to seek out in every frame. The clips begin when he appears and end after he leaves. The other people are little more than a backdrop.

Except that some of them may become his victims. And some are already his unwitting accomplices.

Over and over in the clips, Mr. Paddock is seen leaving the Mandalay Bay for his home in Mesquite, returning with a dark minivan loaded with suitcases. Over and over, valets take his keys; over and over, bellhops stack his luggage on gold carts, helping him transport at least 21 bags over the course of seven days. As they take the service elevator upstairs, Mr. Paddock chats with them. He cracks a joke. He tips.

They have no idea that the suitcases they are so conscientiously carrying are full of guns and ammunition.

Mandalay Bay employees are virtually the only people with whom Mr. Paddock interacts in the surveillance footage. He checks in at the V.I.P. desk, eats alone at the resort’s sushi restaurant, makes snack runs to the gift shop and gambles at the high-stakes video poker machines. Casino hosts greet him as a regular. Security cameras capture him with arms aloft, celebrating a $1,000 win.

But his movements are otherwise sedate, deliberate, unobtrusive, so much so that when he raises a hand to scratch his face in the elevator at one point, the extra movement registers as significant, even sinister.

Toward the end of the footage, two guests carrying shiny plastic inner tubes get off the elevator, padding out in flip-flops. Mr. Paddock pauses to let them off, then gets on.

It is the afternoon of Sept. 30. They seem to be on their way to the pool. He is on his way upstairs, where his guns await.

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js
js

They had time to do some good computer generated animation

Richard
Richard

Why are they releasing this now? Odd….

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

Yes, I wonder how many different trips he had to Mandalay Bay over the years were spun into that yarn.

Tim
Tim

One thing’s for certain:

If the video is fraudulent, the anon’s at 4chan will sniff it out.

EDIT: The autists are on it: http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/164941392

js
js

Notice how they had a narrative in place before the Florida shooting, but they fumbled and stumbled after Vegas? Florida was pre-planned and Vegas was damage control for something else (Saudis?).((They)) try to keep us in the dark and feed us shit, but we do know a shred of information. The MSM narrative is never true, and usually nearly 180 degrees opposed from truth. look at it from ((their)) perspective–how dare we demand truth–we exist to be taxed and bled and drained like livestock, to fight their “wars” , and for our children to provide ((them)) with a bit of entertainment. And those guns have to go, lets get with the Satanic program… White working class America, they don’t give two fucks about you, your hard work, your family. So we have what maybe 6 months to turn this around? Q Q Q Q Q Q anon is our friend

BB

He is like some of those war Criminals you read about.Cold ,cold blooded but never bringing much attention to himself.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

Actually, he’s not the shooter.

Rdawg
Rdawg

Who is the shooter?

steve
steve

The scenario presented is BS. Paddock was most likely holding guns for the assassins in a coup attempt against Muhammed Bin Salman up on the 34th floor. Paddock was not a shooter. A story has been told with a lot of precision that is was a Saudi coup attempt. M.B.Salman was in civilian clothes at the Topicana when the SHTF, hence 17 ambulances there. Paddock as the shooter was a quickie concoction, hence all the holes in the story .

Anonymous
Anonymous

Dumbing down of America came before turning the people into psychopaths.

That explains a lot of things in today’s America.

unit472/
unit472/

Paddock is a case study in how to avoid detection. The FBI and police departments must be in awe of this man’s ability to operate below their radars.

Terrorists, now know to carry out such an operation it will cost about $100,000.

Anonymous
Anonymous

If he was actually operating below their radars.

Which is and will probably remain unknown.

Not Sure

First thought, the NYT is giving you a news article in no uncertain terms of what really happened ( no, I mean really, trust us we are good reporters).
Second, 21 bags? This is the most glaring evidence of all the information presented of multiple shooters, as a lone person will need a few bags to carry out a lone wolf attack; maybe one extra bag if your trying to be a “two is one and one is none” kind of planner, not 21 bags. 21 bags are for a party of friends to have a grand shootout, not a lone wolf.
I’m sure the videos were carefully selected to show a lone individual, to support the narrative. Maybe this was released to stand against the multiple shooter evidence that may be forthcoming. Who are you going to believe; the NYT or some nut job conspiracy theorists?

Mark
Mark

Press release…by the hotel…BS

A class action suit lawyer for the victims was on Tucker tonight deriding the lax security of the hotel…building the settlement $…a distraction from what js said: “Vegas was damage control for something else (Saudis?).”

They should have put a Lee Harvey Oswald mask on Paddock…and put the Warren Commission report in his hands.

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