car with tannerite and rigged it to explode if shot. deadly as these tests show. composed of two substances. we had two chemicals of ammonia nitrate and aluminum powder when combined make the finished product of tannerite. sorry to tell you i don t know what he was going to do with all of that tannerite. while it s not clear if paddock rigged the car as diversion or final trap for police, there is new information with the precision he planned to kill. cnn has learned from law enforcement official briefed on the investigation that paddock tried to buy tracer ammunition at a phoenix gun show in recent weeks. but the official says for some reason paddock could not obtain those bullets which light up in the dark. if he could have gotten tracer ammunition, what would have been different with there attack? the first thing tracer ammunition does for a shooter is it allows them to get onto
they pay better. new this morning we are learning the man that murdered 58 people in las vegas wanted to see what he was shooting at. this is a new piece of information about his movements and actions in his weeks before the massacre. the gunman tried but failed to buy tracer ammunition at a gun show in phoenix. as to a possible motive, new information that falls somewhere between odd and mystifying. the new york times says there was a note left behind. this was not a suicide note or manifesto, but a list of numbers. those numbers are now being analyzed. all 58 murder victims have been identified and are remembered by these new markers on the las vegas strip, hand made by a man in illinois and delivered yesterday. cnn s jean casarez has the latest for us on the investigation. jean. reporter: law enforcement
andme they did say they were not aware of that information. and the gunmen traveled overseas and earlier today the sheriffs department knocked on speculation. nlet s watch this. we have looked at everything. the suspect s personal life and political affiliation. economic situations. and potential radical and we are aware isis which today we have no known nexus. sean:. according to the ap he bought 1,000 rounds of tracer ammunition. and those rounds were found inn his room but authorities have to
room. the clark county sheriff s department said they were not aware of that information. this is a report tonight from cnn that the gunman traveled overseas on over 20 cruises. the sheriff s department knocked down speculation that paddock had been radicalized. watch this. we looked at everything literally to include the suspect s personal life, any political affiliation. social behaviors. economic situation and any potential radicalization that many claimed. we are aware that isis claimed responsibility. today i can tell you we have not known nexus to. tucker: and also stephen paddock brought 1,000 rounds of tracer ammunition a week before this mass shooting. those rounds were found in
mandalay bay park there had 50 pounds of explosives, fertilizer and 1,600 rounds of ammunition in the car that he parked at the hotel. there s reports that he tried to buy tracer ammunition at a gun show but he was denied. the dealer was sold out. there s an associated press report that said he had 1,000 tracer rounds, but he never shot them. marilou danley, paddock s girlfriend has told investigators the last couple days that in a recent month, paddock would wake up in the middle of the night agitated and moaning. as garrett tenney was talking about fenway park was apparently cased by paddock. he actually was looking into searches, google searches at hotel rooms that would look down on fenway park and the boston police department responded to that yesterday. here he is. we just have information that he was on possible sites looking at boston.