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Stacked his clips of ammo neatly against a column. he had many layers of redundancy built up and you can view simply the number of weapons that he had available to him, really to underscore the intent that he had to inflict the maximum amount of damage. paddock took the time to barricade the stairwell door next to his room, rigged cameras to a service card near the entrance to his suite and to a peephole in the door. he was planning a preparation. because at some point, he had to know they were going to come for him. that way he d be able to address that threat. reporter: officials tell cnn, there was a note in his hotel suite. seen here in this photograph, leaked to the daily mail. not a suicide note, but a sheet containing numbers, now being analyzed. authorities are looking into what might have changed last october when he began buying many weapons, but his motive remains unclear, as does his mental state. i think the girlfriend is the key part here, to provide informati ....
Out. and firing from a room like the one we re in, if you knock out this window and fire toward him, that doesn t work. we still wouldn t be able to see him more than likely because we re not seeing deep enough into the room and only when he fires will we be able to see him. he insists the choice of the room put the swat team at a disadvantage and he blocked the stairwell door and wired the hallway with cameras so he could see police approaching. because of his counter measures placed in the peephole and in the hallway, he observed the security guard and he was in fear that he was about to be breached. so he was doing everything possible to figure out how he could escape at that point. but shee han says if the shooter could have gotten away, is it wouldn t have been for very long. there s one of three ways it s going to end for an active shooter. you re going to commit suicide, die in a hail of gunfire with the police. you re going to shoot it out with them and you re going ....
Caused the inception? very good question, no i do not know. i don t know if this is my assumption, only my assumption and phone s been able to spell my assumption as of today, i believe because of his counter measur measures placed in the peephole and the hallway he observed the security guard and he was if fear he was about to be breached. he was doing everything possible to see how he could escape at this point. his concern was personal concerns versus what was occurring down below. can you talk to about what time he shot himself and can you tell us when you know i can t answer that question. that s the question that s been presented and we haven t been through the internal investigation of that to pinpoint exactly if it was heard wen he shot himself or did it occur in close proximity of entry. because you imagine when they ....
Shots were being heard by the suspect at this point. eventually a plan was formulated, entry was made. suspect was seen laying on the ground. they encountered a closed bedroom door, which was locked and they breached that door, additionally and found no other suspect. another investigate issue was cameras. questions was presented about cameras and were they recording. we determined none of the cameras were recording. there were two cameras on the room service cart on the hallway, one on the peephole of the front door and additionally there was a baby monitor camera placed in the general family area of the hotel room. none of them were being recorded. one thing i left out was the initial approach and they looked out in the hallway when they observed the cameras on the room service cart. ....
Room. he requested an east-facing room because if we panned over and looked to the east of where his room is, let s look, the tower is over there, there s the room that he shot from and now we pan east and we look and there s no way to get a countersniper a s.w.a.t. sniper up at a level position to be able to effectively take this man out. reporter: and if you knockout this window and fire towards him, that doesn t work? we wouldn t be able to see him because we re not seeing deep enough into the room and only when he fires will we be able to see him. reporter: the choice of room put the s.w.a.t. team at a disadvantage, one multiplied by the fact that he wired the hallway with cameras so he could see a squurt guard and later police approaching. because of his countermeasures in the peephole and hallway, he observed the square guard and he was in fear that he was about to be breached. so he was doing everything possible to figure out how he could escape at that point. ....