According to the police, shooting was conducted from 32 floors of a skyscraper to 20,000 people gathered at a concert of country music, with more than 50 people dead, more than 400 injured (apparently, after the first shots, a crush and panic began). The number of victims of random fire is staggering. I recall that the same Breivik at the time shot more than 50 people, moving on the ground and finishing the wounded. If you look at the picture below, it becomes clear that there is no question of any aiming from automatic weapons.
Initially, the police believed that there were several shooters.
There was a certain woman with the murderer who was not his girlfriend (the gunman was in another place and had already been questioned by the police). Who she is currently unknown.
Stephen Paddock, who is accused of jesting, for 64 years of life did not get in the field of view of the police, his only sins before the law - fines for speeding. Paddock's relatives are currently in a state of shock and can not believe in what happened.
Extremely strange statement of terrorists from IGIL, who took responsibility for what happened. Meanwhile, on available photos Paddock does not look like a Muslim at all: he took pictures with women and alcohol with pleasure.
All this is very, very strange.
I'm certainly not a criminalist, but I foresee the outcome of this incident a lot of questions that will form the basis of new conspiracy theories.
I am unaware he was accused of making jokes.
Also, the woman he was with was in another place, the Philippines, and she was questioned by police.
I am pretty sure Paddock is no more than a patsy in this event, as a 64 year old man who's worked as a professional for the defense industry as a career is incapable of lugging hundreds of pounds of guns and ammo into a hotel where they aren't allowed without being detected.
He may have been a 'useful idiot', as I have seen a picture of him wearing a pussy hat at an anti-Trump rally, and is reported to have had reams of Antifa literature in his hotel room. He may have been recruited to rent that particular room, and even bring his personal firearms (two or three, that he did own, if they turn up amongst his effects), but then a fire team used him as cover for the actual terror attack.
At least, that's what the evidence indicates is most likely.