16 months after the massacre of Las Vegas, the FBI has completed its investigation of the crime without a clear motive of the offender can be determined.
“There is no single or clear motivating factor” behind the worst firearms attack of recent US history, said the US-Federal police on Tuesday published the final report. The offender might have aspired to a “certain degree of shameful Reputation”.
The 64-year-old Stephen Paddock had on 1. October 2017, shot from a hotel room on, visitors of an open-air concert. He killed 58 people, another 869 were injured. Then Paddock shot himself, as police officers of his Suite in the 32. Floor of the “Mandalay Bay” stormed. In the room, the investigators found 24 firearms, including ten semi-automatic rifles.
Without a farewell letter
A suicide note or other documents that might shed light on Paddocks plans or motives for the crime have not been found, according to the FBI. There were tracked down the information that is no evidence that he could have been driven by political or ideological motives. The FBI investigation confirmed that the Paddock was a single offender.
a Separate investigation by the local police in the gambling metropolis in the state of Nevada had also found no motive for the carnage. The results of the Las Vegas police had already been released last year.
suicide longer
it is planned That Paddock took his own life, corresponded, however, according to the findings of the FBI already before the crime of him cherished Desire. The mass murderer have experienced in the years before the fact, a decay of his physical and mental health, as well as a loss of its financial strength. As a response, he had decided, “to control the termination of his life by a suicidal act itself”.
Paddock was a well-to-do-play a retired accountant with a strong passion for happiness. In the years prior to his act of violence he had gambled large sums of money. (chk/sda)
Created: 30.01.2019, 02:04 PM
