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Las Vegas Shooter Had Note With Wind, Trajectory, And Distance Numbers In His Room

Hank Berrien

Steven Paddock, the Las Vegas shooter who murdered 58 people and wounded hundreds of others with bursts of gunfire from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, was so precise in his preparation for the massacre that he had with him a note containing handwritten numbers for wind, trajectory, and distance in his hotel room.

Interviewed on 60 Minutes, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer David Newton from the K9 unit stated that when he entered Paddock’s hotel room, he saw the note. Newton told Bill Whitaker of CBS:

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