Exemplification Essay: The Death Of Stephen Paddock

On October 1st, gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the aftermath of the shooting, nearly 60 people were dead and over 450 were wounded. According to witnesses, Paddock fired for ten to fifteen minutes. How was he able to cause that much damage, one of the deadliest shootings in American history, in so short a time? In addition to having over 20 guns in his possession, Paddock also used a device called a “bump stock” to fire at least 12 of his guns faster. The aftermath of the shooting has led to a wave of new proposed legislation relating to these “bump stocks.”

With that being said, there were a minimum of two shooters at different locations. Of the two broken windows at Mandalay Bay, there very well could have been two shooters at the hotel, not including the shooter at 250 yards--which begs the question: was Paddock shot by someone else? An audio recording by Las Vegas police mysteriously cut off as they reached the hotel room, right before he “shot himself.” There is potential that a third shooter was present at 250 yards, but there was unquestionably two based on simple mathematical calculations. It is physically impossible for the average Joe to shoot 3,000 rounds of ammunition for eleven minutes continuously. Any typical person like you or me would have difficulty shooting past 500 due to the physical strain that a firearm has on the body. Soldiers go through training to be able to endure long rounds, while Stephen Paddock seemingly surpassed what anyone should be capable of—not to mention nailing the angle of declination to the target. The idea of another shooter, possibly even three, doesn’t sound so crazy anymore; does it? Not to mention that only 45 minutes before the concert, a hispanic woman went around telling people they were “going to die tonight,” which further complicates the idea that this was a one-man show.

This case provides the story of the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald (17 years) in Chicago by Police Officer Jason Van Dyke on or about October 21, 2014. McDonald died after having been shot 16 times late on that evening by Van Dyke as he and others responded to a report of a man armed with a knife breaking into vehicles in a truck yard (CQ Research, 2016). McDonald, who had a record of juvenile arrests, allegedly refused the officers’ demands to drop his knife (CQ Research, 2016). After 400 days of the incident, the video from a police vehicle showed that McDonald, who was holding a knife was walking parallel, but away from the officers when he was shot 16 times by Van Dyke (Police Charges, 2015). The public has a right to know as much as possible about the rules governing the police and about investigations into allegations of police misconduct. Transparency holds police accountable and accountability builds trust in Police Department.

Hypothetically speaking, I strongly believe that the shooter was assisted by other individuals. According to the latest evidence shown by police within the last couple of days. My hypothesis was proven to be accurate as we investigated the latest article on the internet. It’s also proven that there were at least four other gunmen involved in the Las Vegas shooting. Also involving more floors than were expected to be involved the night of the gruesome crime. Stephen Paddock’s terrifying crime is identified to be the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Taking the life of fifty-eight american citizens and injuring at least five hundred. Still not obtaining a motive to why Mr.Paddock made the choices that he made. Sickening and still

Over the past decades the Las Vegas gunman has been stockpiling on guns and living a ‘secret life’ that investigators may never fully understand, police stay. Clark County, Nev., Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said Wednesday that it was only logical to “make the assumption” that Stephen Paddock had “some help at some point” in pulling off Sunday's massacre. “What we know is Stephen Paddock is a man who spent decades acquiring weapons and ammo and living a secret life, much of which will never be fully understood,” the sheriff said. Authorities also revealed that they believe Paddock had an escape plan, even though he turned the gun on himself as police closed in on his luxury suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. Paddock killed 58 people and

Paddock, a 64 year-old-man, checked into room 135 on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay resort and Casino, with 10 suitcases fully loaded with guns and ammunition. While about 22,000 people unknowingly were about to become a part of his unimaginable, horrific plan. Innocent people feared

Fourteen year old African-American boy, Emmett Till, was brutally murdered by two racist, white. Emmett lived in Chicago, Illinois, never knew his father, and lived with his mother. He was born July 25, 1941 and grew up in a working-class neighborhood. His parents were Mamie and Louis Till. He had polio at the age of five, which caused him to stutter. He enjoyed pulling pranks. When he went to Money, Mississippi to visit relatives and was not prepared for level of segregation. Emmett was murdered in cold blood by two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W Milam. He was killed August 28, 1955 for whistling at a white woman in her husband's store. The two men shot him, hung him, beat him, gouged out his eye, tied him to a cotton-gin fan, and threw his

On October 1, 2017 a little after 10 p.m. Stephen Paddock started firing his gun at a crowd attending a country music festival in Las Vegas. Paddock was perched on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. He killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more. Paddock eventually ceased fire and ended up taking his own life in his hotel room. Since some time has passed, investigators have been trying to create and update the timeline of this horrific tragedy. New details from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on Monday have now turned the focus to the six minutes before Paddock fired his first shot on the festival crowd. Jesus Campos, a security guard, happened to be on the 32nd floor shortly before 10 p.m. He was investigating an alarm indicating that a door to a room - not Paddock’s -

No one knows why Stephen Craig Paddock did what he did, however whatever his reason was it was not justified. No one is justified in taking over 50 peoples lives, let alone one.

Stephen Paddock opened fire on a country music festival in Las Vegas over the weekend, killing at least 59 people and injuring over 500 more. It is, at the time of writing at least, the worst mass shooting (outside of pogroms of non-Mormons, black people, and Native Americans) in U.S. history.

So why does it take so long to decide weather it's excessive force or not when evidence is presented? Because when it's one of theirs on the line or their name they try to protect it. But if it was to be you or me they would try to pin every little thing they had against you. Because no one likes fingers being pointed at them. Being a law enforcement in the United States is a risky job because you always have a target on your back and your always labeled as a "bad guy".

Stephan Paddock, sixty-four years old, killed at least 59 people at the Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas making his mass shooting the new lead in deadly mass shootings. In just over a year we have set a for the deadliest shooting in America. Paddock shot multiple assault weapons from the 39 floor at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino for fifteen minutes into a crowd, injuring around 515 people and killing at least 59. The mysterious question everyone 's asking is, “ How did he manage to get a bulk of assault weapons through the lobby, up to the 39 floor?”

The Orlando nightclub shooting in Florida on June 12, 2016 was the single largest massacre in U.S history, taking the lives of 50 individuals, including the shooter himself, and injuring 53 others. This is one extreme example of the gun violence that has been occurring in this country, but mass shootings like this and the one at Newton in 2012 are only a small part of our gun violence issue. The everyday gun violence that takes place in cities all across the United States claims the lives of thousands every single year. According to The Guardian, 33,500 civilians die each year because of gun brutality- “that’s about 1 life every 15 minutes” (Beckett). Between the years of 1999 and 2013, there were 464,003 gun deaths in the U.S, about 58% of them were suicides 37% were homicides. (ProCon.org) Gun violence and the consequences of that violence, have become a real and dangerous problem in the U.S , why else would the CDC list the United States as having the highest rate of gun violence out of all developed countries today? (Gale Opposing Viewpoints) This issue is not just attributable to a single factor, there are several that play an important part in why gun violence is such an issue in the U.S, namely laws and poverty; and in these causes we can also find solutions.

Sentence was passed and in that moment my whole life completely changed. In the background, you could hear the people chant, “Justice has finally been served!” They don’t know me I thought. Everybody makes mistakes, right? But, where was my second chance in life. My luck, the death penalty became legal again and eagerly waiting for me to become its newest member. My palms grew sweaty as always when I grew nervous and scared. There was nothing I could do. These people wanted me to pay for what I put them through.

From the beginning of time there have always been crimes against persons. People went by the saying “An eye for an eye”. You stole from your neighbor, they stole from you. You hurt someone, they hurt you. It wasn’t until the 1940’s people started taking a closer look into these crimes against person, which they later called victimology. This paper will look into victimology and their theories as we go back into the past and how victimology is now.