I’ve been trying to think of a way someone could block or lock a stairwell door without being too obvious about it,”
You put sheet metal screws in the door to the frame from the hall way side or take a 4’ piece of pipe and secure it across the opening to the panic door handle if it is the old type.
The door is “blocked” in yankee terms or what I would call, will not open from the stair well.
I think in one of the articles, or maybe it was the CNN interview, it said the cops encountered a metal plate screwed into the stairway doors - but luckily one of them had a prybar.
The shooter had that end to himself, so figured he could do it unnoticed.
Hmm - the guard said he observed a maintenence worker in one of the rooms - iirc it was the room with the door ajar. What if the shooter put on a worker’s jumpsuit when he screwed the door shut just in case someone approached?
But - having spent all the weeks and months in those fancy hotels, he must have realized those doors have alarms on them. Either told during one of his hundreds of check-ins, or leaving the door open to get some ice?
Seeing as it was several doors down from his room - it may have been a coincidence.
Or someone else was in on it. Even if someone was in on it - it may still not be some huge terrorist plot. It may have been some guy that the rich guy promised a bunch of money to. Although just a lot of money alone doesn’t seem like enough motive to help a guy with a mass shooting. Unless he didn’t realize that was what it was about.
And when he figured it out he disappeared, didn’t go pick up the car out of the garage for the escape, etc.
There sure is a lot of questions with regard to this shooting. And I wish we could trust the media and government to give us the straight scoop once it is all over.
Woman warning prior to the concert - other people interviewed, concert security that escorted her out.
Multiple shooters - shooting from a low building to the north of the site should have numerous bullet holes on the north side of walls and buildings that the shooter could not have hit.
Same goes for reports of shooters at other buildings - bullet holes, eyewitness reports, etc. There are dozens of videos of the shooting at the concert. I would expect more than a few videos that allude to other shooters (the cabbie, the woman at the Bellagio).