Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock sent $100G to Philippines days before massacre

 Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock mysteriously sent $100,000 to an account in the Philippines in the days before slaughtering 59 people in a furious killing spree.

NBC News reported the money was sent to the home country of Paddock’s live-in girlfriend Marilou Danley, who was in the Philippines when the 64-year-old opened fire Sunday night on 22,000 people attending a concert.

Law enforcement officials told NBC that it was unclear if the money was meant for Danley and her family or for some other purpose.

Paddock, who shared a home with Danley in Mesquite, Nev., killed himself in a 32nd floor room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino after Sunday night’s Las Vegas Strip killings.

Authorities reported another 527 people were injured as Paddock, armed with 16 high-powered rifles and another seven weapons, fired fusillade after fusillade of bullets for more than 10 minutes.

 As of Tuesday morning, at least 45 victims of the shooting spree still remained in critical condition — 33 at Sunrise Hospital and another dozen at University Medical Center.

Authorities said the injured were struck by some of the hundreds of bullets fired, hit with shrapnel or trampled as the terrified concert crowd ran for cover.

President Trump, speaking before his trip to hurricane-battered Puerto Rico, focused his comments on the shooter rather than possible gun control legislation.

“He was a sick man, a demented man – a lot of problems, I guess," Trump told reporters at the White House. “We're dealing with a very, very sick individual.”

 Danley, 62, was traveling through Asia as Paddock rented his room high above the city and stocked it with an assortment of weapons, each smuggled inside a piece of luggage, cops said.

The two began dating earlier this year, and authorities said Danley was in Tokyo on Monday. She was expected back in the U.S. to speak with authorities investigating the mass murder.

Authorities had questions about the arsenal kept in the house shared by the couple: 19 guns, thousands of rounds of ammo and explosives.
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