powerboatr wrote:Prayers to the family of the fallen and injured. ATTA BOY to the LEOs' and responders.
scanned through and have a few questions. Not to irritate, just to clarify or get my head around how this dude felt to be this evil.
he was up on 32nd floor (320 to 400 feet up). that put him at what 1000 to 1500 yards from the people.
So you think he planned this long before the weds before he checked in? i bet at least 6 months ago, he was planning .
If i call the hotel and request room X on floor X, will it be honored? Most likely ??? i am not a first time guest. obviously research was done on which rooms or elevations provided the best vantage point.
easy to see what venues are in town any day of the week.
when i traveled every week for the Big G, i could ask a hotel for a particular room or floor with no problems. Especially if i was a frequent visitor.
its reported he stayed in this hotel OFTEN, he knew the lay out, he had money to buy as many weapons as he needed.
thank GOD he was not a better marksman or the death toll would be much higher.
getting rifles in is easy as walking. Golf bags and fishing gear containers are a very easy way to go. i have never had a hotel ask if firearms were in my gear. As part of my travel gear, along with my personal suitcases, I rolled a huge pelican case we affectionately named the body bag, as it was big enough for two carcasses. No one ever questioned it. except TSA, and the poor guy that had to load it in the plane. But this guy drove in.
72 minutes, barricaded doors, set up his own cameras...lots of work for one guy to do in 3.5 days... how much if any was pre-positioned? did he do a spy thing and hide items in a hole in a wall or ceiling? from a previous trip?
its easy to hide "things" in a room away from prying eyes of housekeepers, in a suite.
just saying he would have been busy busy busy for three days setting up.
so many questions for this event. I have trouble thinking it was a one man job to set up.
sure would like to see the hotel cameras footage..i bet its very revealing.
He wouldn't have even had to ask for a specific suite. There aren't too many corner suites in a hotel, and they usually have different types. Just book an X corner suite, with a strip view. And if necessary, specify that you don't want to be too low since the street noise bothers you. This guy was apparently a high roller, so it may have been a comped suite, and his host could easily have accommodated his "quirky" request for a suite that matched his "lucky" numbers, or whatever.
As far as timing, I realize the guy was 64, but absent a physical disability, it isn't that hard to carry a bunch of bags up to your room over the course of several days. I'm assuming he used furniture in the room to barricade the door and that tables and chairs formed the basis of his shooting platforms, possibly with a few sandbags or just bipods. It doesn't surprise me in the least that he was able to get everything set up in a matter of 3 days. I know nothing about setting up cameras, but I'll assume he did that last to minimize the chance of them being discovered.
