“I am concern about the way you are talking and believe you are going to do something very bad,” one of the letter said. “Steve please please don’t do what I think you are going to do.”
LAS VEGAS — Letters addressing the gunman who in October 2017 unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in Las Vegas, apparently written by an ex-convict who lived in Texas, foretold the carnage to come, according to documents obtained Friday.
“Please don’t go out shooting or hurting people who did nothing to you,” the May 27 letter pleaded. “Steve please please don’t do what I think you are going to do.” in response to a records request from the Wall Street Journal. There was no description of their credibility, but an FBI record said Paddock sold property he owned in Mesquite in approximately 2012.
“It was all about doing the maximum amount of damage and him obtaining some form of infamy," the FBI agent in charge in Las Vegas at the time said“The FBI does not comment on individual interviews conducted during an investigation and we do not comment on documents,” the bureau said Friday. “There is no new information that the FBI was not aware or that the FBI has not shared with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in this case.
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