Involved in the investigation. As of about 90 minutes ago, investigators legitimately had no idea why Stephen Paddock committed mass murder. He did not seem religious. He didnt seem political. Thats true. The crime still makes no sense at all to the people looking into it. And that may be the scariest part of all. Now, all of that could change at any minute, of course. As we said, we are waiting for investigators to begin that News Conference in las vegas. It is possible they will reveal new evidence then. We will go to that, obviously, when it begins. A few minutes ago we received the very first statement from the shooters girlfriend recently arrived back in the u. S. From abroad. We will play that for you in just a minute. In the meantime though we want to show you a new tape we have received. It doesnt answer why this happened, but it does provide some context for what it was likes a it was happening. Here is footage from Police Body Cams taken on sunday night. [gunfire] [rapid gunfire. Those, that information associated with that. Okay . And then subsequently i will return to the podium, assist with some q and a, and then commissioner sislac is available if you have any questions of the commissioner and obviously senator dean heller who wished to address the audience, also. So, President Trump, i think he was in town today. [laughter] yes, he was in town. And the reason why i bring up President Trump has nothing to do, in fact, with President Trump. But to do with the Police Department. There was some concern because of his visit that investigations associated with this case would be delayed or hindered. And im here to assure you none of that occurred. There was a separation of personnel associated with First Responders of the Harvest Festival event that
took the opportunity to meet with mr. Trump, and he had the opportunity to congratulate them for their heroic acts. Investigators are directly related to this investigation both on my department and the fbi were not part of that. So, i want everybody assured there was no hinderance in continuance of the investigation. Return of property. There is a lot of questions going on with that. And i wish i could provide you answers with that. We will try to post on the website as soon as we can, advise victims when they can receive their personal property. We are still evaluating the crime scene. Until that completes, the Property Phase will not occur. So, the best of my understanding of where we are at, we are looking at four to five days. So, i know that sounds troublesome, but its important that we dot the
is and cross the ts as far as the evidentiary and possible prosecution in the future. Injuries. Injury numbers that we are using today 489. Of that 489, 317 have been discharged from the hospital. So the question is, sheriff, you provided several different numbers associated with that all the way up to 527. Now, you got to imagine were dispersed across several hospitals, were relying on internal communication of the hospitals to provide us accurate numbers. So thats everchanging. Initially hospitals received patients outside of this event. Quite often or hopefully not quite often but often some of those patients were double counted or they were misconstrued as event injuries versus other injuries such as car accidents. So today im comfort be in
saying the injured number is 489. Deaths still remain at 59. I had told you 59 before. Plus one being the suspect. That changed. Today its 58 plus one, the suspect 59. And its the same reason that occurred before as i explained. So i hope you understand that. Nobody wants that number to go up and by the grace of god it went down. So, thats a good night. So, today i will provide you some updates on our investigation of the Mass Shooting Sunday Night at route 91. More than 100 investigators have spent the last 72 hours combing through the the life of 64yearold Stephen Paddock to produce a profile of someone i will call disturbed and dangerous. What we know is Stephen Paddock is a man who spent decades acquiring weapons and ammo and living a secret life. Much of which will never be fully understood. He meticulously planned on the worst domestic attack in the United States history. As many of already reported paddock rented a room at the ogden hotel in la downtown las vegas. This has been confirmed. Reasons that ran through paddocks mind was unknown. But it was directly during the same time as Life Is Beautiful. We have received, recovered evidence from that location. We dont know if it is evidence, but we have recovered items and video evidence. Im using the wrong term. Evidence is not the term. We have recovered video from there to review mr. Paddocks actions while he was there. Now, its important for you to understand. This was not the the rooms were not rented by the ogden. It was done through air b and b, by a private owner
known to the ogden. So we have very great cooperation from the owners of Life Is Beautiful and the ogden and they are in full cooperation. Okay. We have spoken many people have contacted Stephen Paddock at hotels and places he frequented, we still have more interviews to conduct. Since monday, there have been many questions for us to release a time line and today we have one. I want to point out the information previously reported on the time of the first shot was based on a cad report. Thats our computer aided dispatch. Thats what we do for calls for service. So, that report is dependent on who you know, a particular Person Calling N that time stamp. But what we have done through the review of body
warn cameras, we were able to pull it back to previously from 10 08 to 10 05. So, carlos im going to give you a chance to review that, take photographs of it and i will walk you through each time line. So at 10 05 first shot fired by the suspect. This was seen on closed Circuit Television from the Concert Venue. 10 12, first two officers arrived on the 31st floor and announced that gunfire is coming from directly above them. 10 15, the last shots are fired from the suspect per body worn camera. So, if you are looking at the math, 10 minutes. 10 17 the first two officers arrive on the 32nd floor. 10 18, Security Officer tells the officers he was shot and gives the exact location of the suspects room. Now, you notice a minute delta there before they broadcasted it, obviously they were in a conversation with the Security Guard immediately upon them exiting the elevators. Between 10 26 and 10 30, 8 additional officers arrived on the 32nd floor and began to move systematically down the hallway. Clearing each room and looking for any injured people. They moved this way because no longer hear the gunfire of the active shooter situation. 10 55, 8 officers arrive at the stairwell at the opposite end of the hallway near the suspects room. Can you imagine the doorway of the hotel room, this stairwell and this door access is approximately two to three feet away. 11 20 the first breach was set off and officers entered the suspects room. They observed the suspect down on the ground and also saw a second door that could not be accessed from their position. So its a suite. We have you have a main area of the suite, which is the living room, kitchen,
dinette area and then on opposite ends of that is two bedrooms. Im sorry, where did i leave off . Somebody yell it out. 11 20. Okay. So if do you the math on that, all the way up to 11 from 10 05, we are looking at 75 minutes. Young lady here in the front with the red phone had you mentioned 72 minutes. So now you see where those minutes came from. Okay . At 11 It 7 The Second Breach was set off allowing officers to access the second room and no one else was located within the hotel room. Okay. These are following extenuating circumstances as to why it appeared that there was some undue delay in reaching the suspects. The officers in the First Strike Team reached the 32nd floor within 12 minutes, which is phenomenal of the
first shot being fired. When the officers arrived and confirmed the location of the suspects room, the gunfire had stopped. In accordance with their training, officers received the Master Key Card from the injured Security Guard and began to systematically clear each hotel room. So imagine the Elevator Bank in the center, 150 feet down on a triplex hotel was the suspects room. So there are several rooms along the way because no firing was occurring, they could not hear additional firing. They believed it was important to evacuate in case the suspect was barricaded. While the First Strike Team did this the second team made of two canine personnel a swat officer and Patrol Officers navigated stairs carrying large bag with tack
nickel equipment and holding rifles in order to have a closer position to the suspects room. That is within that stairwell and that doorway adjacent to the room i described previously. They attempted to secure the front doorway of the suspects room. But, as they entered into the hallway, they could see the Room Service Card and readily apparent on the Room Service Card were cameras. So they pulled back and they waited for the approach of a full swat team. It was not undue. It was purposeful heard by the suspect at this point. Eventually a plan was formulated. Entry was made. Suspect was seen laying on the ground. They encountered a closed bedroom door which was locked and they breached that door and found additionally no suspects. Another investigative issue was cameras. Questions was presented about cameras and whether
they were recording. We determined none of the cameras were recording. There was two cameras on the Room Service Card out in the hallway. There was one on the peephole of the front door and additionally there was baby monitor camera placed in the general family area of the hotel room. None of them were being recorded. One thing i left out was the initial approach and they looked out in the hallway. When they observed the cameras on the room service cart, it was obviously there was several rounds discharged through the door, and through the blast of the bullets through the door, you could actually see a weapon through those openings in the door but no suspect was seen. Now, those rounds were the rounds he put through the door in order to shoot at the Security Guard. Okay. The other thing i wanted to
update you on is the Search Warrant of the suspects vehicle located at the mandalay bay. I have presented that there was Ammonium Nitrate recovered but there were several cases within the car that had not been searched yet at the last briefing i provided with you. So, within those cases there was 10 onepound containers of tanner right and approximately 1600 rounds of ammunition. So carlos, can you put up the numbers . So tip line. This is an Ongoing Investigation we can never not have enough information because we are continuing to run down leads and its important for us to get all the information we can on mr. Paddock. Because right now we are
trying to prove his intent or understand his intent and History Associated with this and whether or not he has any accomplices. So, we ask people to still call in to 311. If you are out of state 7028283111. And fbi call 1800callfbi. That is investigative and also electronic media. If you are able to call them, they will provide you the ability to download that online into their system. So at this point, i will provide you Special Agent in charge aaron roust. He will walk you through some of the investigative steps we have accomplished jointly and where we are at in that total investigation. Subsequent to that i will come back to this podium for any q and a and then we will have Commissioner Sisilak and senator dean heller make comment. Thank you. Thank you, sheriff. My name is aaron roust im Special Agent in charge for the Special Division of the fbi. Before i begin, i just want to comment that on behalf of all of the fbi, specifically the division. Our sympathy goes out to all of the families affected by this tragedy. This is our community. Its our community, too. We live here. And we will get through this together the partnership has a Great Partnership with the metropolitan Police Department as well as our other state and local officials. To say this investigation will take a while is not surprising there is a lot of information thats going to change over time as we determine more facts. But this is what i can tell you. Our resolve is firm. We will get to the bottom of this no matter how long it takes. The fbi has deployed over 100 personnel from across the nation to assist the Las Vegas Division in this investigation. This includes victim witness assistance. Counselors, Evidence Technicians and technical assets. Not to mention additional agents to help cover leads. The information that the public provides us is going to help us solve this. But we must focus on facts. We cannot give in to conjecture and we cannot respond to every little twitter feed that may indicate a theory we need to focus on the facts. You need us to be right. You expect us to be right and we want to be right. There are going to be questions. Im sure you are going to have questions about some people that we have been talking to. Maybe people outside of the United States the fundamental trust of the American People and fbi is based upon our discretion and how good would that discretion be if we were to provide information that they provided to us in
confidence . This is about informing on an investigation. This is about resolving an investigation. So specifics regarding any individual contact cannot be answered. You need us, you trust us. And the way we have that trust is by using good discretion about what we share. Additionally, we have multiple leads all across the United States and all across the world for our legal attaches determining the whereabouts and travel patterns of all the people involved in this investigation. And that list grows. A lot of those leads will go absolutely nowhere but we have to follow them and thats going to take some time. Patience is going to be required of all of us. I know we have the patience of this Police Department because we have Great Partnership and we are all interested in the same thing, resolving this issue fairly and factually. With that, i will turn it back over to sheriff lombardo. Okay. Happy to answer questions. And, please provide some decorum. Sheriff. Yes, sir. We know that you have an opportunity to speak to Marilou Danley. We know you have Director Mccabe and access to his computers, his cell phones and social and while you are not yet able to tell us exactly, specifically what you have found, let me ask a general question. Okay. Through all of that information that you have so far arrived at, is there anything that gives you a sense as to what was going on with this man, with the motive. Without saying what it is. Are you seeing anything that gives you a direction or any kind of an answer to that question . Globally, no. Im sorry to report me personally. But im not privy to the subsequent interviews that were conducted today. The fbi is not ready to disclose for public consumption what occurred in those interviews as of yet. Sorry for that answer. Yes, sir. Ms. Danley said to her attorney during the course of her time with the suspect that she never saw or heard anything that suggested that he would carry out an acted like this. You also said that you are looking for other People Associated with him. We have information specifically that there is a woman that you are looking for to talk to that may have been associated with the suspect is that true . Are you giving me a chance to answer . [laughter] can you start from the beginning . Sorry. Questions about ms. Danley her comments to the lawyer. I think anyone put in her situation would probably answer the same way. Like i said, we are not privy to investigative leads that were obtained today. Mr. Rouse could probably give you better clarification of that i
havent been briefed by the fbi on that interview as of yet. What was the other question . You said you are still trying to figure out whether he had an accomplice. We are obviously going through that its troublesome this individual was able to move this amount of gear into a hotel room unassisted its troublesome for the amount of stuff that he had at both residents unassisted. So, there is people that know this individual. There are people that could help us understand this individual. Interestingly enough, i read a periodical earlier today and it was from an fbi profiler that didnt understand this individual usually there is a telltale sign associated with this kind of actions, reclusive, a Elizabet Plethora of things associated. What could be more beneficial than find people
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