Current Events > Las Vegas shooter has apparently been eyeing other targets for a long time

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The mystery over mass shooter Stephen Paddock deepened Thursday with news he rented rooms at Chicago's Blackstone Hotel overlooking the Lollapalooza music festival in Grant Park in August, two months before he opened fire at a country music concert in Las Vegas.

Paddock reserved two rooms on the park side of the hotel with a clear view of the outdoor festival, but he never showed up, according to a law enforcement source, who asked for anonymity because he wasnt authorized to publicly disclose the details.

The disclosure fueled speculation that Paddock may have been considering other targets before settling on Las Vegas Sunday night, where he fatally shot 58 people and wounded nearly 500 others.

Las Vegas shooter reportedly booked rooms at Blackstone Hotel for Lollapalooza
Chicago police are looking into reports that Stephen Paddock, the gunman in the Las Vegas mass shooting, booked rooms at the Blackstone Hotel during this past summer's Lollapalooza music festival across the street in Grant Park. (Alyssa Pointer / Chicago Tribune)
The Boston Globe, quoting anonymous sources, said Paddock may have scouted Fenway Park and other Boston venues. And Las Vegas police say Paddock rented hotel rooms near a concert featuring Chance the Rapper in Las Vegas about a week before the mass shooting, which occurred farther down the strip.

Investigators say Paddock's motive still eludes them as they piece together his movements and track down his purchases of dozens of weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

Anything that would indicate this individuals trigger point and would cause him to do such harm, we havent understood it yet, Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters. He said Paddock had been "living a secret life, much of which will never be fully understood."

The booking of the Blackstone rooms was first reported by TMZ and later confirmed to the Tribune by law enforcement sources. The Blackstone, in a statement, said a Stephen Paddock reserved rooms but no one by that name stayed there.

From those rooms, Paddock would have had a clear view of the entrance to Lollapalooza and a major exit across a bridge.

At least three stages would have been in front of him, one to the west of Columbus Drive and two to the east. Two more stages would have been to his right and two to his left, according to a layout of the festival grounds. The entrances and exit would have been clogged with festival-goers.

Lollapalooza has a daily draw of more than 100,000 people.

The festival arrived in Grant Park in 2005 when it was retooled as a destination festival by co-founders Perry Farrell and the William Morris Agency with new partners, Texasbased Capital Sports Entertainment (now C3 Presents).

It was staged for two days and drew more than 65,000 people. It expanded to three days in 2006 and four days in 2016. In recent years it has consistently sold out its 100,000-a-day capacity in advance.

In Boston, Paddock reportedly made online searches of Fenway Park and the Boston Center for the Arts, both of which host summer festivals. The Boston Globe said it was unclear if Paddock was ever in the city or when he conducted the searches.

A week before the mass shooting, Paddock rented several rooms through Airbnb at The Ogden hotel in downtown Las Vegas for Sept. 22-24, the dates for the Life is Beautiful music festival that featured Chance the Rapper.

The next Sunday, Paddock broke out two windows in a suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and fired hundreds of rounds.

Was he doing pre-surveillance? Lombardo asked. "We dont know yet.

Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-las-vegas-gunman-lollapalooza-20171005-story.html

Scary thing is what if there are more like him here
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But of course we need to focus on ISIS and keeping Mexicans out
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mortimerjames posted...

Scary thing is what if there are more like him here

relax.

there are hundreds of millions of guns in america and there have been for decades, yet these types of tragedies have been incredibly rare. don't let it scare you.

FLUFFYGERM posted...

mortimerjames posted...

Scary thing is what if there are more like him here

relax.

there are hundreds of millions of guns in america and there have been for decades, yet these types of tragedies have been incredibly rare. don't let it scare you.

Yeah just one a year

No biggy
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mortimerjames posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

mortimerjames posted...

Scary thing is what if there are more like him here

relax.

there are hundreds of millions of guns in america and there have been for decades, yet these types of tragedies have been incredibly rare. don't let it scare you.

Yeah just one a year

No biggy

that's extremely rare given the population size and the number of guns in the country. when all is said and done it's as rare as islamic terrorism in other countries. relax.

FLUFFYGERM posted...

yet these types of tragedies have been incredibly rare.

weird use of the word "rare"

FLUFFYGERM posted...

mortimerjames posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

mortimerjames posted...

Scary thing is what if there are more like him here

relax.

there are hundreds of millions of guns in america and there have been for decades, yet these types of tragedies have been incredibly rare. don't let it scare you.

Yeah just one a year

No biggy

that's extremely rare given the population size and the number of guns in the country. when all is said and done it's as rare as islamic terrorism in other countries. relax.

well let's see here, Europe has twice the population the US has. shouldnt they have twice the number of mass shootings?

F9agy posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

yet these types of tragedies have been incredibly rare.

weird use of the word "rare"

i'm saying not to live your life in fear, because it's almost guaranteed it'll never happen to you. no point in living in fear.

FLUFFYGERM posted...

F9agy posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

yet these types of tragedies have been incredibly rare.

weird use of the word "rare"

i'm saying not to live your life in fear, because it's almost guaranteed it'll never happen to you. no point in living in fear.

and thats what all these people thought as they went for a fun weekend in vegas and a concert
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Can we not turn this into a political argument please. -_-

The point is that this kinda disproves a lot of the theories about his motives since it obviously wasn't a spur of the moment thing.

So....why can't we call him a terrorist, again?
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E32005 posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

F9agy posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

yet these types of tragedies have been incredibly rare.

weird use of the word "rare"

i'm saying not to live your life in fear, because it's almost guaranteed it'll never happen to you. no point in living in fear.

and thats what all these people thought as they went for a fun weekend in vegas and a concert

or those people in Nice, France, or the people at the Bataclan in France, etc.

yeah tragedies are awful but statistically speaking you should not worry about it the way the TC is. being afraid to even go outside into the public is nonsense.

He actually expected to get away with it. Wow.
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VipaGTS posted...

So....why can't we call him a terrorist, again?

he was definitely a terrorist

VipaGTS posted...

So....why can't we call him a terrorist, again?

it really makes no sense. were just afraid to call white people terrorists.
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VipaGTS posted...

So....why can't we call him a terrorist, again?

traditionally the term "terrorist" has been reserved for people who attack civilians because of some type of political belief/reason
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F9agy posted...

well let's see here, Europe has twice the population the US has. shouldnt they have twice the number of mass shootings?

you're not going to bait me into your red herring @F9agy

http://www.fox25boston.com/news/quincy-teen-threatens-las-vegas-style-attack-at-school/619460406
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what? you brought up population. high population = more gun violence right?

no you dolt

a higher population means that it makes the probability of you being in a mass shooting or terrorist attack very low, to the point where it's illogical to live in fear of that

no, you said mass shootings were rare relative to the population size.

they fucking are.

take X number of Y per Z population size

as Z increases, the probability that any member of Z will be part of Y decreases

FLUFFYGERM posted...

mortimerjames posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

mortimerjames posted...

Scary thing is what if there are more like him here

relax.

there are hundreds of millions of guns in america and there have been for decades, yet these types of tragedies have been incredibly rare. don't let it scare you.

Yeah just one a year

No biggy

that's extremely rare given the population size and the number of guns in the country. when all is said and done it's as rare as islamic terrorism in other countries. relax.

you two were taking about the number of mass shootings, not the likelihood of being a victim.

you are so full of shit.

explain to me how europe has twice the population but basically no mass shootings

it is worrisome how unbelievably stupid you are, mate

here's what said, copied and pasted for your benefit since you clearly can't be trusted to scroll up and see it on your own:

that's extremely rare given the population size and the number of guns in the country. when all is said and done it's as rare as islamic terrorism in other countries. relax.

fuck, are you that fucking drunk aussie?

there are literally people saying that obama called off the attack on lollapalooza

anyway it's scary for me cause i was at a festival in la a few months ago

and there's a free public one in sf this weekend
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F9agy posted...

fuck, are you that fucking drunk aussie?

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