An investigation wrapped up thats the largest of its kind in the state of california, quite possibly the largest in the nation. Nearly 100 Law Enforcement officers spent thousands of hours over the span of eight months and in the end they had to sit through a Little Mountain of evidence and arrested a suspect whose nickname was the medicine man. We are in the Central Valley town of patterson because they did not need just an Evidence Room they needed an evidence warehouse. Professional thieves in the bay area, this has been a brutal week. This warehouse converted to an industrial size evidence Processing Center now full of recovered stolen merchandise. Trailer after trailer, been after ben and zach after sacked stored on pallets, stacked floor to ceiling twostory solve. It took a team of 30 people two days to catalog it, mostly merchandise from cvs as part of operation proof of purchase making it the largest dust of its kind in california history. 8 million in recovery. Reporter one of
Background singing. He posts this message on instagram. He says this. Tonight has been beyond horrific. I still dont know what to say. I want to let everyone know me and my crew are safe. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone tort. It hurts my heart that anyone was hurt that should have come out for a fun night. Music country staff jake owen was another one of the headliners. Its hard to comprehend this. You feel youre no longer safe no matter where you go. This was an outdoor festival. We dont know if people had to go through a security device. It was outside, 10,000 people. And shooter was on the 32nd floor of mandalay bay shooting down into the crowd. Police believe there is no longer a danger at this time. There was initial talk of another shooter. They believe this was the man behind this and that for now they believe even though its very quiet and occupied by many police that it is safe. So theyre trying to quell what was understandably panic at the time. The eyewitness that
Background singing. He posts this message on instagram. He says this. Tonight has been beyond horrific. I still dont know what to say. I want to let everyone know me and my crew are safe. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone tort. It hurts my heart that anyone was hurt that should have come out for a fun night. Music country staff jake owen was another one of the headliners. Its hard to comprehend this. You feel youre no longer safe no matter where you go. This was an outdoor festival. We dont know if people had to go through a security device. It was outside, 10,000 people. And shooter was on the 32nd floor of mandalay bay shooting down into the crowd. Police believe there is no longer a danger at this time. There was initial talk of another shooter. They believe this was the man behind this and that for now they believe even though its very quiet and occupied by many police that it is safe. So theyre trying to quell what was understandably panic at the time. The eyewitness that
Hotel room. I cant get back to my hotel room, because i stayed in mandalay bay. The friends that we met that were here, shot in the leg, and we dont know how they are doing, but we are keeping him in our prayer. What are the security teams saying . Security team came by making sure we werent injured and told us to stay put in our room. Until further notice, we thank you very much, courtney, for joining us. Its a very upsetting morning. Thank you very much. This is a cbs news special report continuing coverage of the attack in las vegas. And we will bring you up with the latest what we know so far. We have heard that 50 people have been killed, 200 others have been injured. Some of them in critical condition. This is now being called the deadliest mass shooting in american history, but the good news is if you can call it good news, the suspect in this case is dead. They have his identity, and they have his what were being told is his wife. She was the person of interest who they issued
Was blown out. Hes identified as 64yearold Stephen Paddock. They believe he acted alone and took his own life after the shootings. Police say paddock brought more than ten rifles to his room, no known connection to any terrorist groups. Police also say they have found paddocks wife, Marilou Danley whos wanted for questioning but was apparently not involved. The shooting began last night during a concert conceunt conce aldean. Reporter good morning, police say they found at the mandalay bay, that room was fimd with weapons, as many as ten weapons in the room that this gunman was using to shoot down into the crowd that was gathered for this country on the other side of las vegas strip. Cell phone video is helping investigators put together exactly what happened. Many people gathered there say it was the scariest time of their life, initially, many thought the pops they heard were fireworks associated with the show, but soon it became obvious that this was an attack. What sounded like aut