A New Report on the Las Vegas Gunman Was Released. Here Are Some Takeaways.<br />Two weeks later, he looked for “swat weapons,” “ballistics chart 308,” “SWAT Las Vegas,” and “do police use explosives.”<br />• Mr. Paddock stayed in a room at the Ogden condominium complex on Sept. 17, during the Life is<br />Beautiful music festival, requesting rooms that overlooked the downtown outdoor venue there.<br />• Mr. Paddock appeared to begin thinking about a mass shooting last May, searching on Google for “summer concerts 2017”<br />and “biggest open air concert venues in USA.” In early September he searched for “Las Vegas high rise condos rent” and “life is beautiful expected attendance,” a reference to another large outdoor concert in Las Vegas that month.<br />“I am going against normal protocols,” Sheriff Lombardo said, adding that he hoped the preliminary report would “quell the zest for information.”<br />The report offers extensive details about Mr. Paddock’s actions and planning in the time leading up to the attack.<br />Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a news conference<br />that while he was confident that Stephen Paddock was the only gunman, there was another person under investigation who is likely to be charged in the next two months.
