Images from inside Stephen Paddock‘s hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino have been made public.
A reporter with Boston 25 News, Jacqui Henrich, obtained those photographs early Tuesday morning. Henrich says she obtained the images via a source in Las Vegas.
Both of the photographs show guns lying on the floor of the hotel room.
The first image shows some sort of patterned fabric, a number of spent shell casings, what appears to be a partially-full magazine and a bipod likely used to stabilize the weapon during Sunday night’s attack.
EXCLUSIVE: photo from inside #MandalayBay shooter’s hotel room shows gun, ammo, hammer, bipod, optics @boston25 pic.twitter.com/4B2iRhquq5
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) October 3, 2017
Some commentators on Twitter have identified the gun as a direct impingement AR-15, however, the manufacturer is unclear.
EXCLUSIVE: second photo from inside #MandalayBay shooter’s hotel room shows another weapon used in worst mass shooting in modern history pic.twitter.com/gD5IHS7Mk2
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) October 3, 2017
The second image shows another of the shooter’s weapons. This photograph appears to show a gun equipped with a so-called bump stock. As has already been reported, Paddock likely used such a modification to turn his semi-automatic weapons into the functional equivalent of fully-automatic weapons.
In all, 23 different weapons are believed to have been used during the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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