By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The gunman who opened fire at a country music concert in Las Vegas planned to escape after the mass shooting, and he may have had help planning the attack, authorities said.
But Stephen Paddock left behind a note and turned the gun on himself as police closed in on him in his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay
after the massacre that killed 58 people.
“He was doing everything possible to see how he could escape at this point,” Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said, CNN reports.
The note left inside the hotel room was not a suicide note, police said, but did not elaborate.
More than 100 investigators, including FBI agents, are trying to determine whether Lombardo had help. He meticulously planned the attack and bought 33 firearms, mostly rifles, over the past 13 months.
“Do you think this was all accomplished on his own? You’ve got to make the assumption he had to have some help at some point,” Lombardo said.
