The gunman who opened fire on a country music festival in Las Vegas may have wanted to survive and escape his attack, but a hotel security guard who approached his door and attracted the shooter's gunfire appears to have stopped the massacre, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Wednesday. Lombardo declined to say what evidence had led him to believe that Paddock might have hoped to escape after the attack, though he confirmed no suicide note was discovered in the room. Investigators were still trying to understand what drove Paddock and whether something triggered him in October 2016, when he began buying dozens of guns. "He had to have some help at some point," Lombardo said. "Maybe he’s a superguy.… maybe he’s a super yahoo, was working out all this on his own, but it would be hard for me to believe that."

Source: Los Angeles Times October 05, 2017 01:22 UTC