Vegas shooter booked room overlooking Lollapalooza in Chicago, official says

[brooklynite]

Source: Los Angeles Times

A full two months before he opened fire on a country music concert in Las Vegas from a 32nd-floor room of a hotel and killed 58 people, Stephen Paddock booked a room at a Chicago hotel that overlooks a park where a major music festival was held that weekend, a law enforcement official said Thursday.

The official said that law enforcement found no evidence that Paddock ever came to Chicago during the weekend of Lollapalooza — a music festival that attracts hundreds of thousands of people. The official, who was not authorized to discuss the investigation of Paddock's movements, spoke only on condition of anonymity after being briefed on the investigation.

The Blackstone Hotel, where Paddock made the reservations, overlooks the main stage and other stages at Grant Park where the music festival is held every year.

Paddock's booking of the hotel room, first reported by TMZ, comes as investigators, trying to determine a motive for the Las Vegas shooting, have been trying to track Paddock's movements in the days before he opened fire from the Mandalay Bay casino resort on Sunday night.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-las-vegas-shooting-live-updates-vegas-shooter-booked-room-overlooking-1507217273-htmlstory.html

[iluvtennis]

1. Wow, something threw a monkey wrench in that plan..so then Vegas. What an evil SOB

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Or was just scoping out parameters for how to organize his evil plan.

If he drove there he might have had an arsenal.

If he flew there, not so much.

[Blue_Tires]

4. Yeah, I'm thinking it was a dry run

[snowybirdie]

3. Malia Obama

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attends that festival regularly. She was there this year, along with three of my grandchildren

[frazzled]

5. I think AutoCorrect may have punked you

It's Malia, not Media

[snowybirdie]

6. Thank you

Hate when that happens!

[IronLionZion]

7. Sick, sadistic, psychopath

The level of planning and preparation....

[iluvtennis]

9. Yep

[Twisty]

8. Probably more difficult in Chicago.

It’s a lot easier to check into a hotel with 20 guns in an open carry state.

[iluvtennis]

10. Agreed. Ppl keep saying how did he get all the guns in there. Have they never heard of duffel

bags and golf bags. And when you travel with kids or larger family, no one questions 10s of duffel bags (Note: know he was solo, but hotel baggage helpers wouldn't know that). He was at the hotel for several days prior. He could have easily made several trips to being the stuff in.

[IronLionZion]

11. He's been a high roller there for many years and a generous tipper

They comped him all sorts of perks because they wanted to keep him coming back for more gambling. They would easily look the other way of strange behavior from someone who hasn't done any crimes before.

[roamer65]

12. Very much so.

Plus in LV he had the excuse of the upcoming gun show.