Stephen Paddock Case

The Parkland shooter is known as Nikolas Cruz. He was an individual who has had multiple police reports regarding his behaviour and his brothers prior to the shooting (Curt Devine, 2018, p. 2). He was shown to be mentally unstable, as well as violent. It was known by the police, and others that he had access to firearms (Jose Pagliery, 2018, p. 1).

Over the past decades the Las Vegas gunman has been stockpiling on guns and living a ‘secret life’ that investigators may never fully understand, police stay. Clark County, Nev., Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said Wednesday that it was only logical to “make the assumption” that Stephen Paddock had “some help at some point” in pulling off Sunday's massacre. “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,” the sheriff said. Authorities also revealed that they believe Paddock had an escape plan, even though he turned the gun on himself as police closed in on his luxury suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. Paddock killed 58 people and

Currently there are no known motives for Paddock’s actions, the Islamic State has attempted to claim responsibility for the attack but the FBI and senior US officials denied that Paddock has any links to any militant groups. Shortly after Paddock took his own life before a SWAT team arrived at his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Hotel (although there had been claims that he was killed by the police), finding “in excess of” ten automatic rifles inside. A search of his home address will take place in the coming

Brownsville, Texas the city located on the border with Mexico also known as on the border by the sea. The poorest city in Texas became a target for a homicide that impacted the family and including the community.

Sunday, October 1, 2017, thousands of people gathered at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas for a country music festival. At 10:08pm, gunman, Stephen Paddock, opened fire from the hotel just above the field aiming at the thousands of innocent people. Paddock fired constant rounds for about 10-15 minutes, taking 58 innocent lives, injuring over 500, and then taking his own life. This is now considered the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Defensive counterintelligence measures against rampage shooters within the state of Nevada are severely lacking with background checks and insider information acting as primary safeguards. In the case of Paddock, few warning signals were present to suggest his intent of a rampage shooting. Historically, Paddock was a law-abiding citizen whose only

With that being said, there were a minimum of two shooters at different locations. Of the two broken windows at Mandalay Bay, there very well could have been two shooters at the hotel, not including the shooter at 250 yards--which begs the question: was Paddock shot by someone else? An audio recording by Las Vegas police mysteriously cut off as they reached the hotel room, right before he “shot himself.” There is potential that a third shooter was present at 250 yards, but there was unquestionably two based on simple mathematical calculations. It is physically impossible for the average Joe to shoot 3,000 rounds of ammunition for eleven minutes continuously. Any typical person like you or me would have difficulty shooting past 500 due to the physical strain that a firearm has on the body. Soldiers go through training to be able to endure long rounds, while Stephen Paddock seemingly surpassed what anyone should be capable of—not to mention nailing the angle of declination to the target. The idea of another shooter, possibly even three, doesn’t sound so crazy anymore; does it? Not to mention that only 45 minutes before the concert, a hispanic woman went around telling people they were “going to die tonight,” which further complicates the idea that this was a one-man show.

Gunmans in Mass shootings such as Stephen Paddock was the shooter on October 1, 2017 When he opened fire during a show he had killed 59 people and injured 527 people. In the hours after the retired accountant committed the shooting, authorities rolled out frightening new details, including the discovery of scopes on rifles at the resort and explosives at his home.A team of six officers spoke with security at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, where Paddock was staying, and searched the hotel floor-by-floor Sunday night before they found Paddock's room, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters.

There were also many targets that Stephen Paddock shot at. He fired at jet fuel tanks that were near by. He also fired at police officers as he was wanting to hold them back from coming up to his room. To go along with those two, obviously, he fired into the Route 91 crowd of about 20,000 people. In total, Stephen Paddock was firing in the direction of the crowd for nine to eleven

United States history of deadly massacres. Gun violence has always been a hot topic because of constant crimes involving firearms over the years. Recent history has alluded even more debate to possibly create or reform even more gun laws. In the story of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, the New York Times addressed what had happened. This shooting killed twenty six people, twenty in which were children ranging from the ages of five to ten years old. Adam Lanza, who ended up committing suicide, was identified as the gunman who was armed with semiautomatic pistols and a semiautomatic rifle. Another example is from the Los Angeles Times that covered a 2012 Colorado shooting in a movie theater. The gunman, suspected to be James E. Holmes, killed twelve people and injured dozens more in the shooting in a packed movie theater in Aurora. Authorities said Holmes was dressed in full body armor and used a form of tear gas on the crowd before opening fire with multiple guns. In addition, the most recent shooting occurred on May 2014 in Isla Vista near the University of Santa Barbara. This shooting resulted in seven deaths, thirteen wounded, and the murderer himself a gunshot wound to his head. He used three semiautomatic handguns and more than four hundred rounds of ammunition at his side. The recent history of shooting massacres is only a sample size of the whole history of gun violence in

When tourists decide to visit Las Vegas for vacation, they often find themselves attending several events, including magic shows and concert performances. One of the last events they’d expect to find themselves in, however, is in the middle of a mass shooting. According to USA Today, Stephen Paddock took to streets of the Nevada city on the first of October and opened fire, killing 58 people and leaving 489 fatally injured (Gomez and White). After this shooting, many Americans stated that scenarios similar to this should never recur. However, they uttered the same statement after the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, the 2012 Colorado theater massacre, and the mass murder

The United States has had over 350 mass shootings in 2015 alone. There is no specific criteria for mass shootings besides that there are multiple victims and it seems to be at random. There have been a number of mass shootings that have made the news worldwide like; the mass shooting at a black church in S.C and the mass shooting in Texas that left over 20 individuals dead or injured. There are several reasons why a mass shooting may occur. The most recent mass shooting happened this month in California and it happened at a home for the mentally ill. On December 2, 2015 Syed Rizwan Farook and wife Tashfeen Malik opened fire on at a holiday party in the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. Fourteen died and 21 were

Stephan Paddock, sixty-four years old, killed at least 59 people at the Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas making his mass shooting the new lead in deadly mass shootings. In just over a year we have set a for the deadliest shooting in America. Paddock shot multiple assault weapons from the 39 floor at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino for fifteen minutes into a crowd, injuring around 515 people and killing at least 59. The mysterious question everyone 's asking is, “ How did he manage to get a bulk of assault weapons through the lobby, up to the 39 floor?”

At a country music festival in Las Vegas, thousands of people were enjoying the calm atmosphere, until a gunman fired into the crowd from the 32nd floor of his hotel room,

Grendel was a very sneaky monster, “Lying in waiting, hidden in mist, invisibly following them from the edge of the marsh, always there, unseen” (Raffel). Paddock was very sneaky with his attack, hiding in the top of a hotel where no one could see where he was. Stephen Paddock planned out this specific time and date “on a Sunday night on the Las Vegas Strip, Paddock perched in a posh hotel suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and fired round after round at a crowd of 22,000 country music fans 32 stories below.” (O'Neill). Grendel is a murderer who stalks his victims at night, “That shadow of death hunted in the darkness, stalked Hrothgar’s warriors” (Raffel). Stephen Paddock set up his attack in a suite in the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, then firing down hundreds of bullets into the night