Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock reportedly searched for hotels overlooking Fenway Park

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

Stephen Paddock, the 64-year-old gunman who killed at least 58 people and injured hundreds more when he sprayed bullets into a group of concertgoers from two windows of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, came close to striking Fenway Park in Boston, according to NBC News.

Citing senior law enforcement officials, NBC report stated there was no evidence that Paddock traveled to Boston, but he did research outdoor concerts and hotels in the area, most of which only offer an obstructed view inside the ballpark. The report did not state the dates of the research, although Fenway, home to the Red Sox, has hosted several concerts in recent months, including Lady Gaga, Billy Joel and New Kids on the Block, according to NECN.com.

Boston Police acknowledged the reports on Thursday, but would not comment on the investigation other than to say state officials have been in contact with authorities in Las Vegas.

“We are aware of the media reports and are in contact with our local and federal law enforcement partners here and in Las Vegas,” Boston Police said in a statement (via CBS Boston). “The LVMPD is the lead investigating agency, therefore, all further inquiries should be directed to them.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/10/05/las-vegas-shooter-stephen-paddock-reportedly-searched-for-hotels-overlooking-fenway-park/

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He appeare to have been scoping out multiple opportunities to launch an attack.

[Hoyt]

1. Considering this, and the other hotel in considered in LV, it's clear he just wanted to kill a bunch

of people. He didn't care whether it was a country music act, baseball, or whatever, as long as he could blast away andgo down in flames. Dang.

[lunasun]

7. Plain old shoot 'em up lust. He fantasized many scenarios it seems. Got close in Chicago

With him it was just a matter of time before he made it real

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

11. Did he shoot out (to destroy) the hotel window?

Aren't the windows in hotels sealed? I guess I never thought about how he would handle that part of his plan..............

[Lars39]

16. Not sure he shot them out, but two were broken.

[elehhhhna]

2. He rented a room in the Blackstone in Chicago over looking lollapalooza

He rented a room in the Blackstone in Chicago over looking lollapalooza!

That motherfucker. It's just gotten Way more personal.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Video poker was getting too fucking dull

I guess.

Asshole.

[George II]

4. Thankfully there aren't any that would have a view of the seats in Fenway Park.

[heaven05]

5. what is his

political affiliation...repthugliKKKan/tea party?

[lunasun]

8. More than once I've read apolitical

[LiberalLovinLug]

9. I hope we get more information on his interests

other than gambling.

It just seems odd that he would have no political leanings at all and be so hell bent on making such a statement. That he could act normal for so long while secretly planning multiple shootings....without reason (even if there is no actual good reason for this). Makes no sense.

[heaven05]

10. well

like I know, he lived in territory controlled by clive bundy, so he will be suspect as far as I am concerned, whether no political affiliation is admitted by MSM or anyone else. He is a white ameriKKKan terrorist for sure......

[Baconator]

12. Until a political motive is discovered...

... He doesn't fall in the terrorist camp.

[heaven05]

13. Yes he does

he's a white american terrorist....period....60 killed over 500 wounded...terrorist act of a deranged white ameriKKKan no matter political affiliation, religion or a bad case of just pissed off at the world...pure terrorist.

[Baconator]

17. Maybe.. To you... Emotionally...

I'm just talking in a professional sense...

[heaven05]

18. professional or otherwise

which I suspect...white ameriKKKan terrorist just as heinous as any terrorist on this planet. Professional? Okay. I'm talking from a human, potential victim of POS like this point of view, if too "emotional" for you, so be it...your "professional" opinion means nothing to me. Keep that fact straight in your mind. Done with you...

[Baconator]

20. You could be the victim of any number of crimes at any moment...

That doesn't mean that every crime that you are personally afraid of is one of terror.

Please don't take the trump voter tact and shut out that 'fancy book lernin' because it doesn't conform to what you'd like it to be.

[heaven05]

21. project much

done again, with you, but thanks for the monday moanin' laugh...

[Baconator]

22. Just going off what you wrote...

I respect the honesty...

Most people at least try to justify it intellectually. Better to just own that it's emotionally driven and go from there.

[Plucketeer]

6. Let's hope he's now with the

Hades Party. And for initiation, he gets sprayed with bullets non-stop, yet can't die.

[Yavin4]

14. Printing this shit gives other assholes ideas. n/t

[DVDGuy]

15. Might be good thing for the motives to stay apolitical

Any clear motives that fits some kind of narrative (ISIS, anti-Trump, anti-Liberal, etc...) will be just a distraction from the bigger issue, which is gun control. So if there isn't a clear motive, then maybe, just maybe, the debate will finally be about whether it's a good idea for civilians to legally own mass murder tools when your country is suffering from an epidemic of mass murder; or whether legally owning a gun (whose main purpose is to deliberately injure or kill), should be held to at least the same standards and regulations as say getting a car (whose main purpose is actually not to injure or kill), when gun deaths accounts for the same number of deaths every year.

I won't be holding my breath.

[heaven05]

19. 600,000,000 guns

in the hands of americans and ameriKKKans like the one that has sparked this current debate, which without legislation and trumps brownshirts going door to door, breaking them down for search and confiscate(never happen, ever), gun control in this country WILL NEVER HAPPEN. Period. I wish it would, but from the stand in the middle of the street and gun em down days, guns have been and are an extension of the virtue or not, of manhood in this now fascist, racist nation.