(Ken Silva, Headline USA) More than five years after the deadliest mass shooting in American history, researchers are still questioning the many anomalies from that event—including the dubious physical logistics of the shooting, the alleged gunman’s ties to the military industrial complex, and bizarre warnings from a hysterical woman minutes before the killing spree began.
The FBI apparently interviewed a woman who also questions the official narrative. According to a trove of newly released internal bureau records, the FBI interviewed this woman a week after the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting.
The FBI memo indicates that the woman was posting about the Las Vegas shooting on Facebook. Why the FBI felt the woman’s Facebook posts were worth approaching her for an in-person interview is unclear, as the memo is heavily redacted.
“[REDACTED] advised she knew why the FBI wanted to speak with her. She stated she had gotten into an argument with her friend [REDACTED] on Facebook [REDACTED],” the FBI memo says.
“[REDACTED] did not believe the media and others were being truthful about what really happened with the Las Vegas mass shooting. [REDACTED] believed there was a conspiracy, and that the public was being misled. [REDACTED] had some theories about what ‘really happened’ and why what was being reported couldn’t be true.”
However, the FBI memo redacts this woman’s theories about what “really happened.” The memo does include partial details about a Facebook argument the woman apparently had.
“[REDACTED] posted some comments on Facebook regarding the Las Vegas mass shooting. [REDACTED] used Facebook Messenger to start a chat with her. [REDACTED] did not agree with what [REDACTED],” this portion of the memo states.
The memo concludes by saying that the FBI took screenshots of the woman’s Facebook chats with the unidentified person she was arguing with.
“Reporting Agent used the internet to show [REDACTED] a Facebook profile for a [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] confirmed it was the profile for the [REDACTED] she knew. [REDACTED] also identified a photo on the page as [REDACTED],” this memo says. “[REDACTED] captured screen shots of her conversation with [REDACTED] and forwarded the images to reporting Agent.”
No other information about the woman’s theories is included in the newly released FBI documents. More than five years later, authorities have yet to determine a motive for why alleged gunman Stephen Paddock decided to kill 60 people.
When the FBI records were released last week, most media outlets concentrated on records about a possible motive for Paddock’s killing spree: some $38,000 in gambling losses. However, this is unlikely, considering that Paddock was reportedly a multimillionaire.
Local police agreed that the latest FBI document dump does little to clarify the motives behind the country’s deadliest mass shooting.
“It will be very damaging to the 22,000 people that attended the concert, the victims of the family members that were lost and the survivors,” Kelly McMahill, a retired deputy chief, reportedly told the Las Vegas Review-Journal last week.
“There is still no known motive five years later, and LVMPD would never hide a potential motive from any of our victims.”
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
