TMZ reported that Stephen Paddock booked two rooms at the Blackstone Hotel facing Grant Park where the Lollapalooza festival was held, but he never showed.
Lollapalooza draws hundreds of thousands of music fans every year, and this summer the shows attendees included Malia Obama, the daughter of former President Obama.
Do we have the reason that he didn’t attack Lollapalooza?
attendees included Malia Obama, the daughter of former President Obama.
Unlikely, unless he kept a diary. Maybe too much security, he had other things going on that day, bad angles or he felt like a night out on the town. I don't think there's any lack of opportunities to kill large numbers of people in a big city. What I've been surprised by is the total incompetence of most of the perps. We've been blessed in this respect.
Even Paddock's effort wasn't particularly successful when you consider how bad it could have been. He had tens of thousands of fans out in the open who were fenced in and effectively unlimited resources for this kind of thing, and he only killed about 60. Compare this to Oklahoma City where, on a shoestring budget, McVeigh killed 3x as many in a Federal building. Assuming his objective was to stack up random bodies, a truck bomb attack against a tall building would have accomplished a higher body count while letting him get away, at least initially.