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Las Vegas Shooting: Gunman’s Girlfriend Arrives in U.S. and Is Expected to Be Questioned - The New York Times

posted onOctober 4, 2017
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Article snippet: LAS VEGAS — Marilou Danley, the girlfriend of the gunman in the Las Vegas mass shooting, arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday night and was met by the authorities, according to a law enforcement official. She was expected to be questioned upon her arrival, a federal official said. The authorities are scouring the personal and financial history of the gunman, Stephen Paddock, 64, just days after one of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States, which left 59 people dead — including the gunman — and about 500 others injured. The federal official said Mr. Paddock wired thousands of dollars to the Philippines and the F.B.I. was scrutinizing the transaction. Twelve rifles the gunman had in his hotel suite on Sunday were outfitted with a “bump stock,” a device that would enable them to fire hundreds of rounds per minute, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said at a news conference late Tuesday. • The police received the first call about shots being fired at 10:08 p.m. Sunday and Mr. Paddock stopped shooting at 10:19 p.m., around the time security guards approached his 32nd-floor luxury suite in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. • Mr. Paddock had placed one camera inside his hotel room, over the peephole facing the hallway, and two outside his room, including one on a service cart. “I anticipate he was looking for anybody coming to take him into custody,” Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolita... Link to the full article to read more

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