The rooms with a view of the Lollapalooza music festival were allegedly booked by Paddock at the Blackstone Hotel from August 1 to 6, across the street from the festival. Paddock never turned up, CBS reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n This new disclosure suggests that Paddock might have been planning an attack months before the massacre in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n The mass shooting on Sunday at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival lasted barely ten minutes according to police, but left 58 people dead and 489 others injured \u2013 revised figures due to confusion from hospitals on the night, which led to inflated numbers.<\/p>\n Police said the festival was not Paddock\u2019s only target. He is alleged to have attempted to detonate tanks of jet fuel close to the event, which were used by the Los Angeles International Airport, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Paddock successfully managed to hit the tanks, but failed to penetrate them during the massacre on Sunday.<\/p>\n Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo gave the first detailed timeline of the massacre on Wednesday evening, saying the shooter fired hundreds of rounds for a full 10 minutes from his Las Vegas hotel room as music fans ran for their lives outside.<\/p>\n The first shots were reported at 10:05pm, with the first two Las Vegas police officers arriving on the 31st floor of the hotel, one floor below, by 10:12, he said.<\/p>\n The gunshots stopped at 10:15pm, two minutes before the initially responding officers made their way to Paddock\u2019s floor. There, they found a security officer who told them he had been shot and indicated Paddock\u2019s location. Police said Paddock fired 200 bullets in the direction of the security officer.<\/p>\n More officers arrived, some clearing rooms and looking for anyone who had been injured, and breached the door to Paddock\u2019s suite at 11:20pm, 65 minutes after the shooting stopped.<\/p>\n Officers found the suspect on the ground, Lombardo said on Wednesday evening. They then breached the door to the second room in the suite, but no one was there. Police announced the gunman down at 11:27pm.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n Police also confirmed that Paddock had rented a room at the Ogden, a condo building, in September, overlooking the Life is Beautiful music festival in Las Vegas, which ran from September 22 to 24, but it is not known why. The rooms were not rented directly from the Odgen, but through an Airbnb account run by someone living there.<\/p>\n County Clark Sheriff Joe Lombardo said he believed Paddock had an exit plan, but it was so elaborate he would have had to be a \u201csuperhero\u201d<\/em> to pull it off alone.<\/p>\n \u201cHe had to have help at some point\u201d<\/em> said Lombardo.<\/p>\n He said he thought it was likely that Paddock had an accomplice, given the 23 rifles and piles of magazines in the room, the additional firearms in Paddock\u2019s home, and the electronic devices recovered from his Mesquite house.<\/p>\n Lombardo said the shooter lived a \u201csecret life\u201d<\/em> and \u201cmeticulously planned\u201d<\/em> the worst domestic attack in recent US history.<\/p>\n Lombardo mentioned a 10-year span of Paddock\u2019s life that police have struggled to grasp. Police know he was retired, a major gambler, and had real estate investments, but have not received information from an ex-wife and a brother.<\/p>\n Lombardo said Paddock\u2019s car had 50 pounds of explosives, and 1,600 rounds of ammo.<\/p>\n Investigators have focused on a weapon-buying binge Paddock went on one year before he carried out the massacre, and are wondering if he had some sort of mental break at the time that drove him to start making plans for mass murder.<\/p>\n Several law enforcement sources told NBC<\/a> that investigators are looking to speak to a woman who was seen with Paddock in his last days, when his girlfriend was out of the country. They do not know if she is connected to the attack, but want to speak with her to fill in their timelines of the lead-up to the attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. 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