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More than a year after the bureau began digging into the slaughter of 58 people -- and the wounding of scores of others -- at a Las Vegas country concert, the FBI said Tuesday it hadn't concluded anything more about Stephen Paddock's mysterious motive for the attack than it had the day after the shooting stopped.

The FBI's conclusions on the mass murder, which Paddock undertook from a sniper's perch in the Mandalay Resort and Casino in October 2017, were unveiled Tuesday by the Associated Press. The attack at the Route 91 Harvest Festival was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Most of what the FBI concluded has long been known. Paddock acted alone when he planned and carried out the attack, Aaron Rouse, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas office, said. The 64-year-old fatally shot himself as police arrived into his hotel suite.

But the reason for Paddock’s rampage? The FBI says nearly 16 months of study and analysis by agents and behavior specialists couldn't uncover it.
“It wasn't about MGM, Mandalay Bay or a specific casino or venue,” Rouse said. “It was all about doing the maximum amount of damage and him obtaining some form of infamy.”

Las Vegas police closed their investigation in August, also without establishing a motive.

Paddock was a retired postal service worker, accountant and real estate investor who owned rental properties and homes in Reno and in a retirement community more than hour’s drive from Las Vegas. He also held a pilot’s license and liked to gamble tens of thousands of dollars at a time

Police characterized him as a loner who had no religious or political affiliations, despite reports he had ranted about the Federal Emergency Management Agency “camps” set up after Hurricane Katrina and deadly standoffs between law enforcement officers and militia groups at Waco, Texas, in 1993 and Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992.

Authorities said he began to stockpile weapons about a year before the attack and spent $1.5 million in the two years before the shooting. He also started to distance himself from his girlfriend and family.

Paddock sent his girlfriend, Marilou Danley, to visit her family in the Philippines two weeks before the attack took place. He also wired her $150,000 while she was there. She returned to the U.S. after the shooting and told authorities he had complained that he was sick and doctors told him he was suffering from an incurable “chemical imbalance.”


https://www.foxnews.com/us/las-vegas-shooting-still-a-mystery-as-fbi-closes-investigation

Was it ever open?

We all know the FBI doesn't have a political bias

With all due respect to the FBI you have to understand they have a lot of resources wrapped up in Obama's last project.

Bizarre. Once again, the FBI does not inspire confidence by its actions.

Always smelled of coverup.

I guess the FBI is only rendering opinion on someone's "intent" when it's... Hillary.

Nothing "bizarre" about this at all. It happens every day. He was just more successful than most. That makes people interested.

Heard that the ATF was not allowed to examine the weapons used.

Strange huh??

The Federal Government has no jurisdiction in this case. Do you want that to change?

They are willingly invited in by most of the commie nests these events occur in, though.

Is Las Vegas a commie nest? I somehow missed that.


mike r

Clark County

100% Reporting
D H. Clinton 52.4% 401,068
R D. Trump 41.8% 319,571
L G. Johnson 2.9% 22,407
N None of these candidates 2.3% 17,461
I D. Castle 0.4% 3,201
N R. De La Fuente 0.2% 1,713

Once more the illustrious FBI distinguishes itself by proving they are the real traitors and criminals.

I now understand your logic. Is everyone who has an opinion different than yours a communist?


mike r

The FBI has zero credibility and anything that would benefit the communists (which ARE the Democrats) is either obstructed, ignored or covered up by them and it's been that way for a very long time.

Comey is gone now, but most upper management is very much like him. Why would that surprise anyone? If Comey was in charge, would it not be reasonable to think he'd place all "upper management" in positions to support his agenda.
And Harry Reid had Clark County's sheriff as an ally for a long time. The Sheriff should have done the right thing when the whole strand-off at the Bundy ranch was going on, but instead he simply "cooperated" with the FBI and the Feds at every level. We have seen the Bundy's were exonerated and the Feds were chastised for their lack of professionalism and ethics. That's who Clark County was supporting.
So I can't say what the truth is about the Vegas shooter, but I am about 99% sure it's not going to be what the FBI said it was.

They are ALWAYS going to lie about anything that might go counter to the communist ideals held by the Democrats. The FBI to the democrats is very parallel to the Gestapo and it's alignment with the Nazis. Their 'investigation" is ALWAYS going to go with the Dem/Comms narrative.

Mike, did you vote for Trump or Hitlary? That should send you a clue to answer your question.

Mike, only when they vote for Harry Reid and Hillary.

Nothing against those that didn't.

Why did he bring so many guns for the job? Seems like one would have been enough, with lots of mags. Two guns, tops. Was he stupid?

So if the FBI is wrong, what's the opposing theory?

Did you just wake up from a 10 year coma?

Things have taken a really bad turn for the worst, the last many years.

If you had any love for country and liberty and hoped to preserve it's generous benefits for your children, there are many creatures pretending to be humans who want to do really bad things to America.

I want to stop them. Please help.