Rep. Trey Gowdy Smells Something Fishy About Vegas Shooting.
The Las Vegas shooting outside the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino that left 59 dead and
over 500 wounded has had a devastating impact on America.
So far, there is no explanation as to why this took place.
The mysterious events behind the massacre have many scratching their heads with suspicion,
including Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC), chair of the House Oversight Committee.
Gowdy questioned the current narrative, saying "it is difficult to believe that a single
person could have done this without detection."
According to CBS News, the current opinion among investigators is that 64-year-old shooter
Stephen Paddock acted alone.
He was staying in his hotel room at the Mandalay Bay since September 28 and had 23 firearms
with him.
Investigators found 10 suitcases which are presumed to be the containers in which the
firearms and ammunition were transported to the hotel room.
Police subsequently found 19 additional firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, explosives,
and electronics at Paddock's home in Mesquite, Nevada.
Despite the high number of weapons and ammunition in his room at the time of the crime, no staff
member or resident at the hotel reported suspicious behavior.
Rep. Gowdy finds it odd that Paddock failed to arouse suspicion in the days leading up
to his shooting spree, in which he fired down from his room on the 32nd floor of the hotel
at a crowd of 22,000 country music fans attending an outdoor concert.
"It's an incredible level of premeditation that you don't ordinarily see," Gowdy
said.
"And it is difficult to believe that a single person could have done this without detection."
The South Carolina Congressman went on to assert that citizens reporting suspicious
activity helps to prevent crime.
"And so, I hope that what comes out of this is … lots of crime is prevented because
a non-law enforcement officer says something; the weapons and whether or not it was altered
to become fully automatic and the premeditation of picking a certain hotel room," Gowdy
said.
Gowdy predicts investigators will discover people who viewed Paddock as suspicious but
failed to report him to authorities.
For Gowdy, the amount of premeditation involved on Paddock's part made going undetected
unlikely.
"I think we're going to find someone along the way was suspicious, and they should have
turned that suspicion into a phone call to law enforcement," he said.
"It's an incredible amount of premeditation to not go detected."
Police have not yet publicly released information about camera footage, which may shed light
on how Paddock transported his stockpile of firearms into his hotel room.
Stephen Paddock doesn't seem to fit any profiles of cold-blooded killers, provoking
mystery regarding his motivation.
He had no criminal record outside a routine citation that was handled in court.
He also had no history of mental illness, and investigators have yet to find a link
to international terror — the seemingly only one clue into Paddock's psyche.
As reported by the Washington Post, the shooter's father, an FBI most wanted bank robber, was
taken into custody when the young Paddock was seven years old.
His father later escaped from prison and was distant from his children.
Paddock's girlfriend, 62-year-old Marilou Danley of the Philippines, returned to the
US from a trip abroad Tuesday night.
The FBI met her at the airport.
Danley has been classified a "person of interest," but for the moment she is not
a suspected accomplice in the case.
Time will tell whether or not people noticed Paddock's accrual of weaponry to his hotel
room.
Time will also tell whether or not Gowdy is correct.
Trey Gowdy finds it hard to believe there was only one shooter.
Do you think there was more than one?
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