By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
FBI agents investigating the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. knew the gunman left behind a large cache of guns, ammunition and explosives when they requested search warrants for his properties and online accounts.
Newly unsealed court documents revealed new information about Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old high-stakes gambler who killed 58 people and injured hundreds more before killing himself, the Associated Press reports.
An Oct. 2 search of Paddock’s three-bedroom house in a retirement community in Mesquite uncovered 19 guns and several pounds of potentially explosive materials, according to unsealed court documents obtained by AP.
While searching Paddock’s car outside the hotel suite where he unloaded his weapons on an unsuspecting crowd turned up several pounds of ammonium nitrate.
The investigation revealed that Paddock methodically plotted the attacks, which included modified assault-style rifles to shoot rapidly.
The FBI still doesn’t know what motivated Paddock, who appears to have acted alone.
