A friend of the Las Vegas shooter urged him not to hurt “people who did nothing to you,” handwritten letters between the two men reveal.
urged him not to hurt “people who did nothing to you,” handwritten letters between the two men reveal. about the shooter, officials referred in a report to 11 letters that were sent via manila envelope to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The letters had been found in a vacant office building in Mesquite, Texas.
The friend was Jim Nixon, a Vietnam veteran who served time in prison for tax fraud, according to theNine of the ten letters the police released from the records request were sent in the five years leading up to the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting, where the gunman fatally shot 58 people at theSeveral of the letters hinted at disturbing statements from Paddock and seemed to foreshadow the shooting. In August 2014, Nixon asked Paddock to clarify something he’d said about an upcoming plan.
The recently declassified FBI documents revealed more details about the gunman’s life before the deadly shootings. His family had sold some property in Texas in 2012, the reports showed, and he had used his earnings from the sale to buy “dozens of weapons that were ultimately used in the shooting.” In a letter dated March 2, 2017, Nixon commented on his friend’s apparently growing arsenal: “You must going on a hunting trip with all those guns you are stockpiling,” he wrote.
As time went on, he pleaded with his friend not to hurt anyone. “You are a good person and I want you to know that I am concern [sic] about you and your wellbeing,” Nixon wrote on May 27, 2017, four months before the shooting. “I believe you are lying to me and you are going to hurt someone or kill someone. You sound like a real mad man on the phone tonight.”
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