Leaker of Paddock Hotel Room Pics Could Be in Trouble

By Michael Harthorne

October 6, 2017

Las Vegas police have confirmed the legitimacy of photos circulating the internet showing guns, ammunition, and the corpse of Stephen Paddock inside a Mandalay Bay hotel room, LawNewz reports. 

The next step is finding—and punishing—whoever leaked the gruesome crime scene photos. The New York Times has stitched together some of the non-graphic leaked photos to give a complete view of the inside of Paddock's hotel room and its contents, which included more than 20 guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition carried up to the room inside 10 suitcases. 

According to the Independent, some people online believe one of the photos shows a note left behind by Paddock, but that appears to not have been the case.

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