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Police releases final report on Las Vegas mass shooting

Published : 05 Aug 2018, 00:39

  DF-Xinhua Report
Police block a way to the shooting scene in Las Vegas, the United States, Oct. 3, 2017. At least 59 people were killed and 527 others wounded after a gunman opened fire Sunday on a concert in Las Vegas in the U.S. state of Nevada, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. File Photo Xinhua.

Police released a final investigative report Friday on the Las Vegas mass shooting in last October with no clear conclusion of the motive of the massacre.

The 187-page report said that investigators were unable to uncover or discover what the shooter's motive may have been.

A total of 58 people were killed and approximately 887 people sustained documented injuries in the attack on Oct. 1, 2017. It was considered the deadest incident in the modern history of the United States.

The shooter Stephen Paddock, 64, rained down about 1,057 rounds of ammunition from the 32th floor suite of Mandalay Bay hotel into a crowd of 22,000 concert goers in about 11 minutes.

According to the report, Paddock acted alone in the incident and left no suicide note or manifesto. No evidence exists to indicate Paddock conspired with or acted in collusion with anyone else.

Also, there was no evidence that Paddock supported or followed any hate group or any domestic or foreign terrorist organization.

Investigators found Paddock purchased over 55 firearms, which were mostly rifles in various calibers, from October 2016 to September 2017. He bought over 100 firearm-related items through various retailers during that period.

The report said that all the weapons and ammunition Paddock purchased were through legal means. Paddock had not committed a crime until he fired the first round into the crowd at the Las Vegas Village.

The report concluded that in reference to 2,000 investigated leads, 22,000 hours of video, 252,000 images obtained and approximately 1,000 served legal processes, nothing was found to indicate motive on the part of Paddock or that he acted with anyone else.