Mass shooting in Las Vegas, 2/10/2017

[Belligerent Savant]

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Dude. It was "relevant" several pages ago and was being discussed for a time. I was browsing through slashdot this morning and I thought it may be of some interest (or might have been) due to speculation.

The above is a reference to a memory/flash vulnerability, which is separate and apart from a hard drive and the contents/artifacts that can be recovered from a hard drive.

Actually no, no it's not a vulnerability. Read the article buddy, not just what I lifted. It's a feature that can be vulnerable but is built in.

(Clarifying edit: the use of the term 'vulnerability' in my prior posting pertains to features or attributes that are purposely built-into a hardware/software to facilitate access, as opposed to inadvertent faulty code, for example)

Yes but how is it relevant to a hard drive?
Help me understand where you're going with this, because I don't follow.
The portion you excerpted references the Intel chip, which is aside and apart from a computer's hard drive (you likely know this already, presumably). We also have no way to know if this particular chip was on the computer with the reportedly missing drive. And even if it was: the chip, however nefarious in its machinations, is distinct/separate hardware to the hard drive, where the vast majority of user-generated content will be stored.

Again (according to reports cited here earlier), there were numerous electronic devices -- hard drives, etc -- pertaining to Paddock that were captured and analyzed by the Feds. The larger question (which will in all likelihood remain unanswered) is: what, if anything notable, have they uncovered from those devices?
(This doesn't account for Paddock's brother's devices, which have also been seized and analyzed given his recent arrest. There may be noteworthy info -- communications between the brothers, for example -- on both sets of assets.)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cndOsUE ... e=youtu.be

Your thoughts on this video -and the comments. It just confuses the hell out of me ...

[stickdog99]

http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/trust- ... 2017/10/30

Why trust anything Sheriff Lombardo or MGM Resorts International say?

BY DOUG POPPA · OCTOBER 30, 2017 ·

We have now reached the one-month mark since the worst mass shooting in United States history.

The massacre that occurred in Las Vegas, Nevada on Oct. 1 of this year left 58 people dead and more than 500 injured when gunman Stephen Paddock we are told, opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel.

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo who runs the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) had the nerve to tell the public, “I don’t want anybody to think that they are unsafe by staying in one of our hotels.”

That was very nice of Lombardo to plug the hotels, his corporate supporters who helped put him in office.

Yes, we wouldn’t want tourists to think that they are not safe in a Las Vegas hotel.

After all anybody can roll in a small arsenal of weapons and ammunition into a Vegas hotel room and commit mass murder, so yes, Vegas hotels are extremely safe as Lombardo stated.

What the public was told at several press briefings that were held by Lombardo and Undersheriff Kevin McMahill was nothing short of convoluted timelines, hotel check-in dates of the gunman and in the words of Lombardo, “unverified” information.

Lombardo assumed that the public in their need for information about the massacre wanted to be fed false and misleading nonsense apparently obtained from an inept police investigation that couldn’t even get simple facts nailed down from the start.

McMahill told us that unarmed Mandalay Bay Security Officer, Jesus Campos was a hero. Then later they would back off that when Sheriff Lombardo changed the timeline.

First Lombardo said that Campos had interrupted killer Stephen Paddock during his 10-minute shooting spree because Paddock saw Campos coming down the hallway on cameras Paddock had set up and fired through the door hitting Campos.

That account was not accurate either, as Campos on the Ellen DeGeneres Show said while be interviewed by the comedian, that he had approached Paddock’s door as he went to the stairwell to check to see why the fire door wouldn’t open.

He wasn’t shot at, at that point and nobody with any common sense would be walking down a hall if they heard gunshots emanating from the room.

Campos said when he exited the outer door from the stairwell the door slammed, and he believed that may have alerted Paddock who then opened fire as he was walking down the hall away from Paddock’s room.

That raises more questions.

Paddock went through the trouble of placing cameras on the inside of his room door on the peephole and two more on the room service cart, apparently to monitor if anyone was approaching his door.

He didn’t see Campos walking down the hallway approaching his door as Campos went to check on the stairwell fire door that was adjacent to the room. Had he opened fire at that point Campos would have been facing the door and most likely might have never survived a barrage of gunfire that close.

Later, Lombardo said Campos was shot a full six minutes before paddock opened fire and then for a third time changed the first two accounts and said that Campos was shot around the same time Paddock opened fire on the music festival.

As a former criminal investigator my first question would be, who interviewed Campos right after the shooting and why wasn’t all this known immediately after he was questioned by the LVMPD.

Obviously, somebody at the LVMPD screwed up as the FBI had to re-interview Campos because the timeline didn’t fit.

Who interviewed Campos at the LVMPD, was it a homicide investigator as it should have been or a member of the Force Investigation Team (FIT) that normally investigates officer involved shootings. FIT answers to the bureau commander who is Captain Kelly McMahill, wife of McMahill.

Captain McMahill has marginal investigative experience according to former Metro cops who spoke to the Baltimore Post-Examiner. Of course, having your wife in control of a major investigation is a plus should damage control be needed.

The LVMPD homicide division told the Baltimore Post-Examiner that the investigation was being handled by the Force Investigation Team and not homicide. Why is that? Could that have anything to do with the fact that an officer fired a weapon inside Paddock’s room, a mystery no one is still talking about.

Apparently, transparency means nothing to Lombardo.

Keep in mind that once a cop gets elected sheriff he is no longer a cop, but a politician. Politicians have their own agenda and when you receive over $1 million in campaign contributions that helped you get elected, who knows what could happen.

The LVMPD couldn’t protect the integrity of their own criminal investigation of the worst mass shooting in American history.

Crime scene photographs of Paddock’s body and the room were leaked to the press. Lombardo said he was disturbed by that and he should be. Who leaked the crime scene photographs and what is the status of that investigation? So far, we have not been told and most likely never will be.

As the days went by we saw the toll it was taking on Sheriff Lombardo. He appeared shaken at times, even uneasy with his own remarks to the press and then not taking any questions at all.

Lombardo first told the media that, “the guard radioed Mandalay Bay Security, who then reported the shooting to police.” Even that remark didn’t hold water as Lombardo released nothing to support that assertion. To make matters worse MGM Resorts International (MGMRI), the owners of the Mandalay Bay released a statement of their own which contradicted Lombardo’s timeline and how the police were notified.

"Although we prefer not to comment on the details of this investigation, we are issuing this statement to correct some of the misinformation that has been reported. The 9:59 p.m. PDT time was derived from a Mandalay Bay report manually created after the fact without the benefit of information we now have. We are now confident that the time stated in this report is not accurate. We know that shots were being fired at the festival lot at the same time as, or within 40 seconds after, the time Jesus Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio. Metro officers were together with armed Mandalay Bay security officers in the building when Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio. These Metro officers and armed Mandalay Bay security officers immediately responded to the 32nd floor. We will continue to work with law enforcement as we have from the first moments of this tragedy as they work toward developing an accurate timeline."

If we are to believe that statement, which by the way was not accompanied by any proof of accuracy or truthfulness, it leads to more disturbing questions.

Who falsified the Mandalay Bay security log or as MGMRI said, “was derived from a Mandalay Bay report manually created after the fact without the benefit of information we now have.”

If Metro officers were in fact inside the Mandalay Bay before the shooting started talking to security officers about another matter, and they heard Campos over the radio telling Security dispatch that shots were being fired on the 32nd floor, how was it that the LVMPD dispatcher did not know immediately where the shots were coming from?

Did the Metro officers get on their radio and inform their dispatcher that they were enroute to the 32nd floor for a report of shots fired? That would just be common sense, let alone proper police procedure. If that was the case, then what time did Campos call that in over the radio, and again why didn’t the police dispatcher know?

What Metro units were they? When did they respond and where were they inside Mandalay Bay when they were talking to the Mandalay Bay security officers and then responded to the 32nd floor?

Does hotel video surveillance show them going up into the tower with security officers and at which time?

Why wasn’t any of this given to the media when MGMRI issued the statement?

Police radio traffic from the night of October 1 tells a different story

The police didn’t know where exactly the shooter was firing from in the Mandalay Bay, until over 18 minutes from the time the first police officer at the concert called in shots fired. Then we hear, “182SE we have a security officer shot in the leg on the 32nd floor. He’s standing by the elevator.” He shot down the hallway and hit a security officer. It’s room 135 on the 32nd floor.”

Lombardo told the media how hard it was to pinpoint Paddock’s room from the outside. Why was it hard, when according to MGMRI, Metro officers knew immediately where the shots were coming from when Campos called in over the radio?

On Friday, ABC News stated it had exclusively obtained an audio clip from MGM Resorts International of Campos calling in the shots fired over the radio. “Hey, there are shots fired,” and then giving the floor and room number. According to ABC news MGMRI did not provide the precise time the call was made.

This is very interesting. If the audio clip was made from recorded Mandalay Bay Security Dispatch radio traffic, that would be time coded, if indeed they do record their security communications. That audio clip could have been made at any time, there is nothing to say that it is genuine.

Is MGMRI trying to shift blame to the LVMPD by releasing a recording allegedly of Campos not only calling in shots fired but the exact room number?

From my experience giving out piece-meal information here and there raises red flags.

I wouldn’t trust anything anybody says at this point unless they show proof to back up what they say and then only when everything is independently verified.

Protecting themselves from civil litigation is primary at this point. Both the LVMPD and MGM Resorts International have done a horrible public relations job to date. It’s a disgrace and I am sure that the relatives of the deceased and the survivors of the attack feel the same way.

[stickdog99]

http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/las-ve ... 2017/11/02

Since the Oct. 1 Las Vegas massacre that resulted in the worst mass shooting in American history, leaving 58 people dead and over 500 injured, I have written 30 stories on the tragedy for the Baltimore Post-Examiner.

I wish I didn’t have to do that. I wish the massacre never happened. I wish I had the power to bring back those we lost and heal all those who were injured. I wish I could take back the physical and emotional suffering of the survivors, many who will live with those scars for the rest of their lives. I wish I could take the pain away from all those who lost loved ones that night.

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So, when Sheriff Joe Lombardo and Undersheriff Kevin McMahill made statements at press briefings concerning convoluted timelines, hotel check-in dates and other comments that conflicted with LVMPD radio traffic the night of the massacre, I questioned those comments.

Case in point, occurred at the press briefing that was published on YouTube on October 3, by the LVMPD concerning a 6 p.m. briefing.

That briefing was conducted by Clark County Undersheriff, Kevin McMahill, the number two man running the LVMPD.

If you are the two top cops running the LVMPD before you make any statement to the press about the worst mass shooting investigation in U.S. history, wouldn’t you want to be damn sure your facts are correct, otherwise you might not want to comment?

Undersheriff Kevin McMahill:

“We have a responsibility to get it right. The first question is how long did the actual shooting last. I’m prepared to give you some information on that. First call came into our dispatch center at 10:08 p.m. about shots being fired. The suspect I can tell you that we know now that he fired off and on for somewhere between nine and eleven minutes. We know that the suspect fired over a dozen or so volleys, and we know that the firing by the suspect ceased at 10:19.”

I agree that you do have a responsibility to get it right. The first call that came in to the dispatch center about shots being fired was at 10:05 p.m. and that was from the police officer who was at the concert venue and called in shots fired. The firing stopped at 10:15, Sheriff Lombardo would later tell the press.

"So, I want you to think about that, the minute, the first minute the police are aware of the shots being fired at 10:08 and it stops at 10:19. That’s a remarkable response by this department."

Again, those times would change. I don’t know what he was trying to imply here, but why the shooter stopped firing had nothing to do with the police. We do not know why the shooter stopped firing when he had 23 weapons and plenty of ammunition to continue to do so.

“Also, another question that came up how long was it before our SWAT team entered the suspects room. Somebody said you heard it was seventy-two minutes and why was it so long.”

The first shots were fired at 10:05 p.m. according to Sheriff Lombardo. The room wasn’t breached until 11:20 p.m. That is over one hour and ten minutes after the shooting started.

“Just mention to you, that the sheriff mentioned previously at the briefing. We had patrol officers working another event at the Mandalay Bay who heard the shooting and took it upon themselves to form up into a team, enter the stairwell, begin ascending the floors and also evacuating hotel guests. The SWAT team had to arrive first at the Mandalay Bay before they could take any action.”

Lombardo said the security officer called his dispatcher who then notified the police. MGM Resorts International in their statement said that LVMPD officers were with Mandalay Bay security officers when Security Officer, Jesus Campos, called over the radio that shots were fired, and after hearing that over the security radio, the police and security immediately responded to the 32nd floor.

“As I mentioned earlier there was a very heroic security guard who was shot during the search for that suspect, that security guard went up to the room, he was advancing to the room when the suspect fired through the door at the security guard and struck him. He was able to provide additional information to the police on exactly which room we were looking at. However, at that time it’s important to note that the shooting had stopped.”

That is not true, Campos was not advancing to the room when he was shot. Campos said on the Elllen DeGeneres Show that he got shot at after he approached the gunman’s room and exited the outer stairwell door that he was checking because it was blocked from the other side. Campos said when the door slammed he believed that may of alerted the gunman who opened fire as he was walking down the hallway away from the door.

This is a very important fact as to when Campos got shot at. Why didn’t the detective who first interviewed Campos know this? This is very puzzling to me. Obviously, there was no gunfire coming from the room, otherwise Campos never would have approached the room.

According to the LVMPD radio traffic that night, it was over 18 minutes from the time the first police officer called in shots fired at the concert venue until a police officer tells his dispatcher that they are on the 32nd floor and that Campos was shot, and the room was 135.

“At that point because it’s a barricaded, at that point because it’s no longer an active shooter, we’re not hearing any further shots, the floors have already been evacuated of guests, the suspect was now isolated and contained within a room.”

I disagree with McMahill’s assertion that the suspect was isolated and contained.

The police did not know that the night of the shooting. As a matter of fact, one of the SWAT officers says right on the radio that they must pop the door to see if the gunman is still in there or if he went somewhere else. The police never had any contact with Stephen Paddock, verbally or otherwise. For all they knew that night he could have already been long gone which would have made him a threat to the public.

“At that point that the SWAT team made their decision based on when it was appropriate to enter. I want to make it clear that while there was that slight delay, the suspect was no longer firing into the crowd.”

Yes, there was a slight delay. Paddock opened fire at 10:05 p.m. The police breached the first door at 11:20 p.m.

Who all went into the room? Was it the entire SWAT team or just two K-9 officers, a gang unit detective, one other officer and the SWAT officer who breached the door with explosives?

According to 60 Minutes it was the four officers and one SWAT officer who entered the room. They appeared on the show, minus the SWAT officer. Where was the rest of the SWAT team?

We still do not know who discharged their weapon and why. Sheriff Lombardo said it was an accidental discharge, but did not elaborate any further.

The timeline wasn’t right from the start. How the police could not have known the correct set of events when Jesus Campos got shot at, is mind-boggling.

What is the extent of Campos’ injuries. Lombardo said the gunman fired about two-hundred rounds through the door at Campos. We heard he was shot in the leg. Did he get hit with a bullet fragment or did he take a direct hit from a .223 or .308 caliber round?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Lombardo would later say in an interview that, “a minute here and there didn’t make a difference.” Really, what kind of investigation was being conducted if that is the mindset of the top cop.

To make statements that the sequence of events was going to change was complete nonsense.

What happened in that one-hour period since Paddock stopped firing?

When did he commit suicide?

Could anyone else have exited Paddock’s suite unnoticed in that one-hour period?

What about other guests in the hotel that were evacuated, specifically on the 32nd floor. Have they all been investigated for possible connections to Paddock?

There are still so many unanswered questions surrounding this investigation.

[stickdog99]

http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/sherif ... 2017/11/05

Is Sheriff Joe Lombardo lying or incompetent or both?

Sheriff Joe Lombardo (Screenshot KLAS TV Las Vegas)

Some politicians believe that they can get away with blowing smoke up the public’s ass and spew out lies, deceptive statements and comments that defy logic and they will go unchallenged. They truly believe that the public is, for a lack of a better word, dumb.

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Every day that goes by leads me to believe that something stinks in the woodpile here.

On Nov. 2, Sheriff Lombardo sat down for an interview with local television station KLAS-TV. It was nothing but a public relations stunt, but turned into another chance for Lombardo to make himself look an incompetent dolt.

Lombardo would never want to be interviewed by any experienced investigative journalist, someone who has the knowledge and the common sense at least to challenge him on his lies and deceptive comments.

I will recap a few of Lombardo’s comments here.

“… It was hard to determine where they [shots] were coming from, uh, once it was evaluated, it was coming from the Mandalay Bay as you can imagine how hard it would be to pinpoint the room from the outside.”

Later we would hear that police officers were with Mandalay Bay security when Security officer Jesus Campos called in over the radio and said the shots were coming from the 32nd floor, so why was it so hard? Why didn’t the police dispatcher know?

Do LVMPD helicopters have forward looking infrared radar (FLIR) that could have pinpointed the gunfire that night and or thermal imaging systems that can detect body heat? They were airborne that night.

“And so subsequently that takes time, you can imagine moving from the location of the event deciding whether you are going to help victims evacuate or you are going to decide whether you are going to take charge and put an element together and go and engage the individual.”

In an active shooter incident your primary mission is to take out the shooter, there is no time to decide. The longer he fires the more bodies are stacking up.

“When the security officer was engaged by the suspect we backed off from immediate apprehension and SWAT team formed and made entry.”

When the security officer was being fired upon, there were no police up on the floor at that time. Not only is that the wrong tactical approach but the SWAT team never made entry. The entry team was two K-9 officers, a gang unit detective and another officer.

They were all interviewed by CBS’s 60 Minutes, less the one SWAT officer who breached the door with explosives. I’m sure they had the authorization to be on that show.

Where was the LVMPD SWAT Team that night, or are we missing something here? Both Lombardo and McMahill repeatedly told the press that the SWAT team made entry.

“I don’t want anybody assuming they are unsafe by you know staying at one of our hotels, we would not have um, engaged this individual in the time lapse that we did without their assistance.”

Nobody is going to assume that they are not safe in a Las Vegas hotel. Any terrorist like Stephen Paddock, can roll in an arsenal into any hotel room and commit carnage and park his vehicle on hotel property with explosive materials.

Another one of Lombardo’s lies. The police never engaged Paddock as he said. They entered the room one hour and five minutes after he had stopped firing. They stated he was dead upon entry, and a month later finally admitted a police officer accidentally discharged his weapon, but gave no details.

The LVMPD radio traffic that night indicates that the police officers had to wait for SWAT. SWAT had to make a plan we heard. Why didn’t the SWAT team make entry? Why were patrol officers the entry team? Were there not enough SWAT members on site?

Of course, we heard from Undersheriff that Campos was shot at while advancing on the gunman’s room and that the gunman was isolated and contained. Not true on both accounts. The police weren’t even sure Stephen Paddock was still inside the room.

When Lombardo was being interviewed on November 2, speaking of when they decided to breach Paddock’s door, he said, “In this case because of what the suspect did, officers made the decision to breach this doorway of the hotel room in case the guy was reloading, maybe he was reloading magazines, we didn’t want to give him the opportunity to keep firing and when they made entry they found out he committed suicide.”

Can you believe this crap coming from the highest law enforcement officer in the county? That is a bold-faced lie.

What made it worse was that Lombardo wasn’t even challenged by the interviewer, like I said they have a cozy relationship with the sheriffs. After all, you wouldn’t want to do your job and make the sheriff look like an idiot.

You mean to tell us sheriff that you were so concerned with the public’s safety that you believed Paddock was reloading and would open fire again, yet the police waited one hour and five minutes after he had already stopped firing to enter the room?

That is beyond incompetence and makes no sense at all.

That wasn’t the only comment that Lombardo made during that interview that defies logic and again went unchallenged by the interviewer.

Lombardo said, almost contradicting his first statement, that if Paddock had started firing again the police officers would have gone into the room immediately.

Let’s analyze this for a minute.

Under Lombardo’s thinking, this from the leader of the LVMPD, he would have waited until Paddock started killing and wounding more people, then they would have gone in. How many more people would have been killed in that time, even if it was just seconds for the police to breach the door?

I can tell you that is probably not the thinking of the many Las Vegas police officers in Clark County, Nevada.

[stickdog99]

http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/petiti ... 2017/11/06

The Las Vegas Review-Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, CNN and ABC News last week filed separate petitions in Clark County District Court in Nevada seeking the release of police records relating to the Oct. 1 worst mass shooting in United States history.

Since the massacre that left 58 people dead and more than 500 injured, both the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI have kept those records secret and thus far have refused to turn anything over to the media.

The affidavits for the search warrants that were executed on Stephen Paddocks hotel room, houses in Reno and Mesquite, Nevada, and Paddock’s vehicle have been sealed.

The time coded LVMPD 911 Communications Center recordings of telephone calls and the police dispatcher the night of Oct. 1, have yet to be released.

We have not seen any of the Mandalay Bay hotel video surveillance recordings and security dispatch logs that Sheriff Joe Lombardo has referred to numerous times in press briefings.

MGM Resorts International, the owners of the Mandalay Bay haven’t released any corroborating evidence to support their press releases and no information about the falsified security dispatch log.

Questions remain when and if Mandalay Bay housekeeping staff had entered Paddock’s room during his almost one week stay in the hotel before the shooting and did they see anything suspicious?

Las Vegas hotels as a matter of policy, keep logs of when a housekeeper enters a guest room for service.

Whether a do-not-disturb tag was placed by Paddock at any time during his stay on his room door, has not been confirmed.

Denying access to a room or refusing service is a suspicious indicator that criminal or terrorist activity may be taking place in the hotel room.

That has been one of many advisories that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has provided to the hotel and lodging industry for well over ten years.

No records have been released by the hotel on Paddock’s deliveries of food to his room during his stay. Sheriff Lombardo admitted that at least on the night of October 1, there was a room service cart outside Paddock’s room that did have food service for two. Lombardo blew that off stating to a local reporter that probably Paddock liked to eat.

Hotel registration records of Stephen Paddock have not been released nor has any records indicating whether he specifically requested room 32-135 or it was randomly assigned to him.

That is a key factor in the investigation, since that room has views of the concert arena and McCarron International Airport.

I am skeptical by nature because of my background so, at this point we cannot take the word of Sheriff Lombardo, the FBI or MGM Resorts International on anything.

Records and evidence can be altered, falsified or come up missing.

There have been previous allegations that LVMPD officials altered and destroyed 911 Communications Center records in a different matter, allegedly to cover-up a crime, which is a crime in the state of Nevada.

We need to see the documentation, video and audio recordings related to every aspect of this investigation. That includes body-worn camera footage of any officer that entered Paddocks room and any video recorded by other means by police personnel.

Audio recordings of any other LVMPD radio traffic including any encrypted channels used the night of the massacre, crime scene forensic reports as well as the coroner’s investigation, x-rays and reports of Paddock’s body need to be released.

As of this date we are told Paddock was the lone gunman. He is dead. The FBI stated that they found no connection to any groups. No criminal prosecution perceived as of this date.

It’s time for previously withheld information to be released to the public so all of it can be independently verified.

Questions that need answers are many including:

Why was the LVMPD homicide division not involved in the death investigation of 58 people and the alleged suicide of Stephen Paddock?

Why was the investigation given to the LVMPD Force Investigation Team that investigates officer involved shootings and use of force?

The Force Investigation Team conveniently answers to Bureau Commander, Capt. Kelly McMahill, the wife of Clark County Undersheriff, Kevin McMahill, the number two man running the LVMPD.

Still questions linger about the exact time that Mandalay Bay Security Officer, Jesus Campos was fired upon and reportedly shot in the leg and all the convoluted timelines associated with that.

Why did it take Sheriff Lombardo one month to admit that an officer fired his weapon inside Paddock’s suite but has so far refused to give any specifics?

Lombardo and McMahill both have told the media numerous times that the SWAT Team entered Paddock’s room when it was breached.

Then we were told it was an ad-hoc team of K-9 and patrol officers who never worked together before who entered the room. That was verified when four of those officers appeared on CBS’ 60 Minutes the Sunday following the attack.

Where was the SWAT Team that night? Were they involved in another operation that we were not told about or was it that enough members responded, and the entry was left to the ad-hoc entry team?

Lombardo downplayed the other active shooter calls that were coming into the Communications Center that night, which started after Paddock had ceased firing. Several of those calls were specific and came from police officers and fire personnel themselves.

Who called in those active shooter calls? Was it the same voice or a group of same voices? Could this have been an orchestrated effort to learn how the police would react tactically?

What’s the status of that investigation, or is there one?

Could there have been another attack planned that night and for some unknown reason it was called off?

Why were the tactical movements of police both inside the Mandalay Bay and outside broadcasted unencrypted that night for anyone to monitor?

That not only could have put the lives of the police officers in jeopardy but also the public.

Why did the LVMPD request additional armored vehicles from a private company during the time the other active shooter calls were coming in to the 911 Communications Center?

The biggest question is why Stephen Paddock brought 23 weapons into his room for just a one-man operation? It was overkill. Why would he stop shooting after ten minutes, then kill himself when he still had sufficient ammunition to continue firing and or engage police?

What were the circumstances surrounding the mysterious suspect in fatigues the police were chasing into an RV off Tropicana Boulevard right after the shooting?

There are too many unanswered questions about Paddock’s actions and why the police waited over one-hour and ten minutes to enter Paddock’s room, specifically since the sheriff has said they wanted to make entry to prevent Paddock from reloading so he couldn’t continue his firing.

If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit, remember that quote?

In this case, there is plenty that just doesn’t fit.

Every time Lombardo opens his mouth all we are left with is more questions.

[stickdog99]

http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/stephe ... 2017/11/08

Stephen Paddock’s autopsy report could be released

LAS VEGAS: Clark County Nevada District Court Judge Jim Crockett ruled on Sept. 28 that the coroner’s office cannot keep death records secret, because nothing in Nevada law exempts autopsies from public review.

That decision came about prior to the Oct. 1 Las Vegas massacre that left 58 people dead and over 500 injured after Stephen Paddock reportedly opened fire on a music festival from his suite at the Mandalay Bay Hotel.

We still do not know the manner and cause of Paddock’s death. That has not been released by the coroner’s office and neither has the estimated time of death.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal had filed a lawsuit in July after the Clark County Coroner’s Office refused to release coroner’s reports in other deaths.

The coroner considers the coroner autopsy report, coroner medical examination report, toxicology report and the coroner investigation report, to be confidential and not for public record.

Attorneys for the LVRJ argued that Nevada’s Public Records Act requires that the government must release the documents.

The Clark County District Attorney’s Office who represented the coroner argued that the records could be withheld and or redacted by officials based on a 1982 attorney general’s decision.

After the judge’s ruling, Keith Moyer, the editor in chief of the LVRJ said, “Thursday’s ruling makes it clear again that government records are presumed to be open and cannot be hidden from scrutiny because bureaucrats want the public kept in the dark. Governments must follow the law. The Review-Journal will aggressively litigate baseless refusals to release public records. And, as we did Thursday, we’ll win.”

Crockett said the attorney general’s opinion does not overrule laws that say all records are public unless there is a specific exemption.

On Tuesday the Clark County Commission voted to appeal Crocket’s decision. Clark County Coroner, John Fudenberg requested the appeal.

The LVRJ managing editor Glenn Cook said, “Autopsy reports are public records across the country to ensure accountability in investigations.”

[stickdog99]

http://news3lv.com/archive/john-fudenbe ... ty-coroner

From 21/2 years ago Friday, April 10th 2015

John Fudenberg, who has been assistant coroner since July 2003, has been promoted to the position of coroner, County Manager Don Burnette announced Friday.

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"The opportunity to serve as the new Coroner and continue to work with our amazing staff is exciting and humbling," Fudenberg said. "I appreciate the trust and confidence Clark County is giving me. Our office is committed to ensure this transition of leadership will be completed in a seamless manner, keeping ever present the goal of providing continued excellent service to our citizens and stakeholders."

Friday's announcement follows one on March 31 by Mike Murphy of his intent to retire from the position after 13 years to take a position with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, Va.

from yesterday

The Clark County Commission voted Tuesday to appeal a District Court ruling that autopsy records are public.

Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak and Commissioner Jim Gibson cast the two dissenting votes against Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg’s request to appeal the ruling, which said the Las Vegas Review-Journal was entitled to the records.

“I just felt they made their case to the judge, and the judge ruled it was open,” Sisolak said. “When it’s a close call, I’d rather be on the side of transparency.”

Sisolak said staff did not provide estimates for the cost of the appeal, but county documents say taxpayers will pick up the bill for “court fees, possibly attorney fees, and other related expenses.”

“Tuesday’s commission vote ensures more tax dollars will be wasted on yet another doomed effort to keep important government records secret,” Review-Journal Managing Editor Glenn Cook said. “Autopsy reports are public records across the country to ensure accountability in investigations.”

The county had argued that the coroner could withhold or redact the records based on a 1982 attorney general’s opinion. The county also said state law prohibits the release of records reviewed by oversight committees.

But District Judge Jim Crockett rejected the county’s arguments in September, saying nothing in state law exempts autopsies from public review.

Commissioners Susan Brager, Chris Giunchigliani, Marilyn Kirkpatrick and Lawrence Weekly voted to appeal.

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http://wavy.com/2017/10/09/coroner-vega ... s-ongoing/

From one month ago:

The coroner says an autopsy has been done on the man who authorities say rained gunfire on a concert crowd from a Las Vegas Strip hotel suite and shot himself dead before police burst into his room.

Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg didn’t say Monday when Stephen Paddock’s body would be released to his family or how long it will be before forensic and toxicology results are made public.

Fudenberg told The Associated Press he can’t speak at this time about a cause of death, details of the autopsy, or the location of the body because of the ongoing investigation.

[stickdog99]

http://mb.ntd.tv/2017/10/21/las-vegas-c ... -massacre/

From October 21, 20 days after the shooting and long after all of the autopsies had been performed.

The Las Vegas coroner’s office, which identified and examined the bodies of the 58 victims and the suspect from the Harvest 91 Festival massacre has been on lockdown since the morning after the shootings.

The office was still locked down on Friday, Oct. 18, according to footage recorded by independent journalist Mike Tokes.
Tokes knocked on the front door of the Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner and a female employee opened the door.

“Our office is still closed,” the woman said. “We’re still on lockdown just because of the shootings.”

When Tokes inquired if this is a regular procedure, the employee answered, “We’ve never had anything like this before.”

The woman also said that she was not free to speak to journalists.

Mike Tokes ✔@MikeTokes

VIDEO PROOF: Las Vegas Coroner's office on LOCKDOWN with police units stationed on each side of the building.

This is very suspicious.

A relative of a victim who went to the office on the morning after the shooting was turned away, Newsweek reported. Officials were instead handling victim identification, paperwork, and transportation arrangements around the clock at a separate location staged at a convention center.

The coroner’s office had a police detail staged near the rear entry, Tokes’s video shows.

The Las Vegas coroner’s office confirmed the identities of the 58 victims of the shooting massacre as well as the suspect, Stephen Paddock. The office is also tasked with reporting the position the body was found in, retrieving bullets for police investigators, and determining the path bullets or shrapnel traveled.

The Las Vegas coroner’s office handles cases throughout the Las Vegas valley and employs dozens of investigators in addition to administrative staff.

In this Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, file photo, drapes billow out of broken windows at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, following a deadly shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

The coroner’s office operates independently of the Las Vegas Metro Police Department. In September, a court ruled that autopsy records cannot be kept secret, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

The coroner’s office was inundated after the shooting, CNN reported. Coroners from other areas traveled there to assist.

The head coroner, John Fudenberg, was promoted to his position in 2015, News 3 Las Vegas reported.

The coroner’s office had transported all the bodies from the scene of the shooting by Monday, Oct. 2. It released the full list of the 58 victims and the suspect to the public once all of the bodies were identified.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 00221.html

The body of Stephen Paddock, who sprayed more than 1,000 bullets into a Las Vegas country music concert, is to be sent to Stanford University for study.

Las Vegas coroner John Fudenberg said an autopsy was completed on the 64-year-old, but a finding on a cause and manner of his death is not expected for several months.

[Elvis]

That Baltimore Post Examiner stuff is terrific, thanks Stick.

As a matter of fact, one of the SWAT officers says right on the radio that they must pop the door to see if the gunman is still in there or if he went somewhere else. The police never had any contact with Stephen Paddock, verbally or otherwise. For all they knew that night he the shooter(s) could have already been long gone which would have made him a threat to the public.

All along, I've pictured someone slipping away down the stairs after killing Paddock. It sounds as if that's completely possible.

The FBI et al. must be sitting on some explosive evidence. The fact that it's Las Vegas sort of clouds the motive for witholding information, coroner reports etc. but something is definitely stinks here.

[stickdog99]

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/sho ... hird-time/

Las Vegas nurse Zully Hernandez is becoming something of a regular on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” with Monday marking her third appearance on the talk show in the past two months.

Following injured Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos’ time on the show, it’s an episode that probably will provide more fuel for conspiracy theorists in light of the recent information vacuum concerning the Oct. 1 shootings.

Hernandez was playing one of the “Ellen”-branded slot machines at the MGM Grand in mid-September when she was surprised by DeGeneres and a film crew. She was so excited, DeGeneres invited her to Burbank, California, to be in the audience for the Oct. 3 show. Hernandez already had left Las Vegas for the taping before the shootings, but she was elevated to guest status that day to talk about them anyway. She and her family were then given a seven-day trip to Fiji.

Campos, who first encountered the Route 91 Harvest festival shooter, abruptly canceled five national television interviews and disappeared, only to turn up days later on “Ellen” in an episode broadcast Oct. 18. The security guard, a key witness to the largest mass shooting in modern American history, granted DeGeneres his only interview. DeGeneres mostly praised him as a hero and never asked about the controversial timeline of events surrounding the shootings.

The filming with Hernandez at the MGM Grand, which like Mandalay Bay, is owned by MGM Resorts International, raised questions about the relationship between the company and DeGeneres.

For his appearance on the show, Campos received Raiders season tickets for their first year in Las Vegas. The show’s philanthropic partner, Shutterfly, donated $25,000 in his name to the Las Vegas Victims Fund set up by Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak.

On Monday’s episode, Hernandez was awarded $1,000 to spend on “Ellen” slot machines, which is sure to raise more than a few eyebrows, although as many Las Vegans know, those machines aren’t limited to MGM properties.

Hernandez also received $25,000 from Shutterfly “to encourage her family to continue to make memories together.”

DeGeneres also made a personal plea for someone to give Hernandez’s husband, a construction worker in another city, a local job so the couple can be reunited.

“Well, there’s gotta be somebody in Vegas that needs construction,” DeGeneres said. “If you are in the Vegas area, and you can give him a job so that they can be together, please get in touch with us.”

[stickdog99]

Paddock co-owned multiple vehicles with a convicted drug dealing felon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ZOPta ... u.be#t=10m

[MacCruiskeen]

Thanks for posting all this, stickdog. Just astounding stuff.

It is blatantly obvious that there's a massive cover-up going on. Will they be allowed to get away with it?