BY TERENCE CULLEN, October 3, 2017

The Las Vegas hotel room of gunman Stephen Paddock, who killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 at a country music concert, was littered with assault rifles and bullet shells, photos of the room show.

A Boston 25 News reporter tweeted a photo of Paddock’s room that shows a hammer along with dozens of casings on the floor and a bullet magazine. Among the casings is an assault rifle fixed with a scope and bipod.

A second photo showed another long assault rifle with a long magazine and handle at the front of the stock.

Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill confirmed Tuesday evening that the images were of Paddock’s hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, and that an internal investigation is searching for the source of the leaked photos.

Wounded flooded Las Vegas hospitals within minutes of attack. A photo of Paddock’s room that shows a hammer along with bullet casings, a magazine and an assault rifle fixed with a scope and bipod. A second photo showed a long assault rifle with a magazine.
A photo of Paddock’s room that shows a hammer along with bullet casings, a magazine and an assault rifle fixed with a scope and bipod. A second photo showed a long assault rifle with a magazine.

The room looked down 1,200 feet at the Route 91 Harvest festival, where about 22,000 people attended a Jason Aldean concert.

They found 23 firearms inside the 32nd floor room, where Paddock had killed himself before cops arrived. A handgun and 16 assault rifles were part of his horrifying arsenal, authorities said Monday. They believe he snuck them into the room a suitcase.

At one point, Paddock fired 280 rounds at the crowd in the course of 31 seconds.

Cops were able to find his room 20 minutes into the shooting because the tremendous amount of gunpowder triggered the hotel's smoke alarms.

Paddock had been staying in the palatial suite since Thursday, police said.

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If the single shooter explanation is to be believed, forensic authorities will need to find far more than "dozens of casings". TM