By: Kyle James | 12-22-2017 | News
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Coroner Rules Las Vegas Shooter's Death A Suicide

The cause of death of the Las Vegas Shooter has now been officially determined by the Clark County, Nevada coroner to be a suicide. The horrific mass shooting occurred last October when a millionaire casino fanatic opened fire with modified rifles from his hotel.

https://thegoldwater.com/news/9026-Las-Vegas-Update-50-Dead-200-Wounded-Shooter-Stephen-Paddock

64-year-old Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and injured almost 500 more after firing into a crowded country music festival from a sniper perch in the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 1, 2017.

The coroner's findings reveal that the gunman died of a single gunshot wound to the head. The findings also confirmed the 58 victims killed at the Route 91 country music festival died from gunshot wounds and none of the victims were killed from injuries received trying to escape during the shooting.

A common cause of serious injury or death at disaster events or massacres is trampling when hordes of people mobilize at once. Some victims from the concert even had boot marks on their clothing from being trampled during the attack.

Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg ruled the deaths of the 58 victims to be homicides as a matter of record. Paddock's death was the only death attributed to another cause, this one being suicide.

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo offered a timeline of events that saw Paddock open fire on the crowd at 10:05 p.m. after taking shots at a security guard striking him once in the leg about 40 seconds before he turned his weapons on concert-goers.

Paddock was found with dozens of weapons and huge ammo stores along with intricate surveillance cameras setup around the room he was staying in. One officer named Joshua Bitsko described the intense moments leading up to the breach of the shooter's room on the 32nd floor.

He describes tons of smoke, fire alarms going off and flashing as they try to clear the hallway calling it a "deadly game of hide and seek because when you're the one hiding you always know a person's looking for you."

Officer Mathew Donaldson describes first entering the shooter's lair at the Mandalay Bay, "My initial scan, coming in the room with my rifle is just seein' I'm seeing one male down, bleeding from the face. He was not a threat. Kept going, kept going, kept going."

The over 500 victims who suffered injuries during the attack ranging from gunshot wounds to trampling injuries are suing the hotel and the Paddock estate.

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Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coroner-says-las-vegas-gunman-stephen-paddock-killed-himself/

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Anonymous No. 14504 2017-12-22 : 09:28

We all saw the death photo showing a clearly staged scene with nice clean shell casing laying blood and pistol in the wrong place for a self inflected head shot, absence of spent 223/556 shell casings in amounts related to the kill ratio and etc… . Like many I am not buying the whole story as presented. Given too many witnesses saw ground level shooter(s) also. Like the 2 person van with side door open and one person seen shooting into the crowd as it drove by.

paullr No. 14513 2017-12-22 : 13:27

You really have to think we are hair brained idiots to fall for that tale. Wrong blood distribution, wrong ammo. I still say that guy did not fire a shot. Someone else did all that. No video, disappearing witnesses, and on and on.

Anonymous No. 14527 2017-12-22 : 20:03

How about initial ER staff reports that a large number of the wounded had bullet holes with internal penetration trajectories more like were street level and not downward in 30+degree angles?

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