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I Have Different Questions About the Vegas Shooting than Those Being Asked

I have been following the updates to the Las Vegas shooting every day. It has my interest for some reason. Maybe because I have been to Vegas, stood on that corner, so I can perfectly visualize how it went down and can imagine how it felt that night. I looked through my photos and have that concert lot in some images, one taken from a similar perspective even.  Plus, Mandalay Bay is one of my favorite hotels. It is on my list to stay if I ever go back. It was the first hotel I played a slot in in Vegas where I turned $1 into $10, the first hotel I explored other than where we stayed. My dolphin Pillow Pet backpack clip is named Mandalay for the hotel. I also spent my friend's 30th birthday at the shark exhibit there on another trip.

I am not a conspiracy theorist but just asking these as questions. I apparently want answers to different bits of information than the press. What started this blog entry was my desire to know more about the alarm that Campos, the security guard, was investigating.  Do police look into that supposed unrelated stuff but keep it quiet to not tarnish a lead?  Do they purposely give the media other information so the public has something to chew while they are investigating these other leads? Do they release facts only once they determine it isn't a lead?  I can't be the only one to wonder about these coincidences or piece together an airplane escape theory.


These are questions I have about the shooting in Las Vegas from the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay on October 1, 2017:


  • When did paddock last go up to his room?  Is it on camera at the elevators or did he use the freight elevator?   Is there a camera there?  When did he last gamble in the casino?
  • Were guests staying in rooms in his wing close to his suite? Were any in their rooms at the time?  Have they been interviewed if they heard anything that day or any prior days?  Did any check in the same day as paddock? Someone had to hear the drill. Can't they give a timeline about when the drilling started?  Confirm when bullet's started and stopped? Did they hear the windows bust out?  Was anyone staying in the suite directly above or below him? What did they hear or see?
  • Why was the door locked into the other room in paddock's suite? Did it have its own exit? Does this not raise questions or bother investigators?
  • Did police search the room comped to him he stayed in earlier that week? Has he stayed at Mandalay before?  Recently?  Is there video footage of him moving any luggage between rooms?  What floor was that room on?  When was the last time his suite was used?
  • Was anybody staying in the room Campos was checking the open door of?  Did anyone get in or off the elevator around the time the door was left open? Has this guest been interviewed? Or was it a staff member?  Could they have known some thing and opened the door to set off the alarm to get a guard on the floor? Did they know the timeline when Paddock planned to start shooting and try to stop it?
  • Could there be someone at the hotel who helped?  Like, did dispatch purposely not report it to give him time? If Paddock was known, he could have had friends on staff who unwittingly helped, not knowing his true plans.  Is there any current employees who worked at Cosmopolitan at the time of his lawsuit? 
  • What was the other incident at the hotel police were already there for?  Could it be a distraction?   Or a way to get police on site? 
  • What was the jammed fire alarm door the maintenance man was investigating about? Did Paddock do something to keep police out? Is this confirmed a separate incident than the security guard was checking?  Why were they reported/investigated simultaneously?
  • Did the security guard go to Paddock's door when he heard the drill or did Paddock shoot just because he saw him near?  Did police arrive on the floor after shooting or just at the stop?  Did Paddock stop because he saw police arrive? Could he have placed a camera elsewhere? In an area he was granted privileged access to?  Has footage of other floor's elevator docks been checked from earlier that night?  Could he have tapped into the hotel radio's signals to listen in? Into the hotel's cameras to watch their feed?
  • Stephen Paddock was shooting at the airport tanks.  He had explosives in his car.  He had a pilot's license.  Was his plan of escape an explosion to distract the airport to steal a small plane?  Was he going to crash it into a hotel 9/11 style?  Has airport security footage been reviewed to see if he ever staked that airport?
  • Are investigators combing video from months ago to see if he staked the hotel for best shooting point?   Are there other records of him in Vegas recently?  Were cameras around Mandalay checked then? Why did he choose Mandalay over Luxor? Has Luxor's cameras been checked those days before he switched rooms?
  • When was the I-91 music festival planned? Were tickets sold out? Was Paddock out of his room the other nights of the festival?
  • Could the $100,000 have been transferred for himself if he escaped?  What are the Philippines' extradition laws? (that one I could look up I guess)
  • Did Paddock have the internet at his homes? Is his computer being searched? His browsing history? What about things he used the tablet for? Anything stored on there? Could he have destroyed devices used in research prior to checking in? Did he go to places where he could use a public computer?  Did he have another "secret" phone not brought to the hotel he used during planning?  Has his girlfriend's phone records been searched in case he used her phone?

  • Not related to motive,  but when were the people who were evacuated allowed back up on the floor to get their stuff?   Where were they taken when evacuated? Were they given other rooms that night?  
  • Are rooms being checked out on that floor now? If so, is that wing closed? When will they replace the glass windows? Will the gold match? I want to know what becomes of that room, that floor, but that has been asked by many. What happens to the vacant lot of the concert?
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