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The probe on October 2017 deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas police on Friday said they have been able to answer the "who, what, when, where and how" of the slaughter, but at the end of the probe was announced, officials still could not explain the "why."
"The goal of our investigation all along was to provide the public with the clearest picture possible of the events leading up to October 1, as well as motive," Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo told reporters at a news conference. "What we have not been able to definitively answer is the 'Why Stephen Paddock committed this act?'" he said.
The probe took place for a period 10-month of the shootings that left 58 people dead and hundreds more injured at an outdoor country music concert.
It was confirmed by Lombardo that 64-year-old Paddock acted alone when he fired a hail of bullets out the window of his hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Resort.
The sheriff also quashed all rumors of conspiracies. "There's been no other gunman identified," he said, adding that the department does not anticipate charging any other individuals.
Paddock was described as "an unremarkable man" by Lombardo who many people - including one his brother said had mental health issues.
The report includes notes from an interview with Paddock's brother Eric Paddock, who "believed Paddock may have conducted the attack because he had done everything in the world he wanted to do and was bored with everything. If so, Paddock would have planned the attack to kill a large number of people because he would want to be known as having the largest casualty count. Paddock always wanted to be the best and known to everyone."
Another brother, Bruce Paddock, told investigators that "Paddock was suffering from mental illness and was paranoid and delusional." A Las Vegas doctor, identified as Paddock's primary care physician, told investigators he believed the gunman may have had bipolar disorder but he had refused medication to treat it. He also described Paddock's behavior as "odd."
Over since 30 years, Paddock had accumulated 67 weapons, whereas twenty-four were recovered from his hotel room the night of the shooting.
"I would personally call it a terrorist attack. It had an influence on a certain demographic of people [and] intended to cause harm," he said.
But he acknowledged the crime, while heinous, does not meet the FBI's standards for terrorism.
A body camera footage has been unveiled by probe team that includes moments before police enter Paddock's hotel room and finds him dead from a self-inflicted gunshot.
In response to a lawsuit in May, the videos and else audio clips were released.
Federal prosecutors in May charged the ammunitions dealer who sold Paddock armor-piercing bullets and over 00 tracer bullets.
By Sowmya Sangam
