Smoke Alarm Led Police to Vegas Shooter

It's a sign of just how much firepower Stephen Paddock had in his Vegas hotel room: Police were able to zero in on him because his weapons set off the room's smoke alarm, reports the Washington Post

Given that the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino has more than 3,300 rooms, the clue helped police locate him more quickly—about 20 minutes in all—than had they been forced into a room-by-room search. As it was, Paddock managed to kill at least 58 people and wound more than 500 others from his 32nd-floor room.

 "The way the shooter was identified was not from the muzzle flashes, but the smoke detector in the room went off from the amount of smoke that came from firing that fully automatic weapon," former Vegas police officer Randy Sutton explained to CBS, per the Week.

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