Shooting at Las Vegas casino

Almost anything is possible.

 

He might have jammed up every one of his guns from overheating.

He might have also caused one of his weapons to malfunction in such a way that he fatally injured himself. I imagine an autopsy would have discounted that possibility by now though.

 

Yeah. I guess anything is possible.

Now, not to go back to this guy to many times, but...

If you look at this picture, you can see that he pushed two chairs together, and had his guns all propped up there.

It looks like he still had at least one gun left that he hadn't fired.

 

Well shit, I thought that was some sort of fancy bathtub. It's a pair of hideous chairs.

 

If Paddock had an escape plan, as some people speculate, what could it have been? How the hell would he get out of the room and the hotel once the cops showed up?

 

Maybe he thought they wouldn't find him before he was done.

 

Yeah. That's all it could have been.

He may have figured he had ten minutes to shoot, and then walk out of there in the confusion, and potentially blow up his car as well.

Obviously he would have been the most wanted man on the planet. He checked in under his own name. So, maybe they found documents he had acquired under another name, and plane tickets, or something.

He would have had to have arranged an alias ahead of time if he planned to get away.

 

Yeah, but he was 32 floors up. You gotta figure the cops will have all the exits sealed pretty quick while they're working their way upstairs.

 

Well, it's interesting.

Absent the security guard, how quickly would they have even identified the source of the shots? The radio traffic isn't sure if it's Mandalay Bay, or Luxor.

And, I'm not sure what was happening at Mandalay Bay. I would guess most guests wouldn't even know something was happening. But, if folks had started to panic, or evacuate, he may have been able to slip out. Or thought that he could have.

If his plan was shoot for ten minutes, and leave, it might have worked if not for the security guard and/or the fast police response.

 

Yeah. But it's like a bank heist: A good planner knows you have only 2 or 3 minutes to get out the door and into the escape. Once the cops seal the exits, they can swarm the place and search inch by inch.

Maybe he had another room on a nearby floor under an alias.

 

That actually would have been a good plan. Go there, and shelter in place.

But you're right. I think it's in the movie "The Town" where the bank robbers are acutely aware of how much time they have to get in and get out.

He may have simply overestimated how much time he would have had.

But, if the new timeline is right, he may still have had time to get out of there after he finished shooting, and before the cops got to his room.

So, why the fuck did he stop shooting, and why did he kill himself. If he wanted to make a run for it, it seems like he still had a small window available.

 

I buy the Twitter guy's scenario that he accidentally shot himself.

And even if the cops guard the exits, how hard would it be for a disheveled, 64-year-old white guy to slip past them? They wouldn't be looking at him as the perp.