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STATE/NATIONAL
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Denton Record-Chronicle
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Probe thwarted by
gunman’s secrecy
BRIEFLY
STATE AND THE U.S.
Oklahoma City
Police: Man threatened
Vegas-style shootings
An Oklahoma man has been
arrested after threatening to car-
ry out shootings in Oklahoma
City and San Antonio similar to
the mass shooting in Las Vegas,
police said Wednesday.
Roderick Lamar Robinson
was arrested Tuesday on a ter-
roristic hoax warrant at a home
in Warr Acres, the Oklahoma
City suburb where he lives, said
police Capt. Bo Mathews.
Several people alerted police
to Robinson’s threatening Face-
book posts, Mathews said.
Washington
3 U.S. Army commandos
killed in southwest Niger
U.S. officials said three U.S.
Army special operations com-
mandos were killed Wednesday
and two others were wounded
when they came under fire in
southwest Niger. The officials
said the two wounded were tak-
en to Niamey, the capital, and
are in stable condition.
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By Ken Ritter, Michael Balsamo
and Brian Melley
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — The gunman
behind the deadliest mass
shooting in modem U.S. history
led a secret life that has so far
thwarted investigators trying to
figure out a motive for the at-
tack.
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Paddock
Dan ley
tainers of an explosive common-
ly used in target shooting that
totaled 50 pounds in his car. But
it wasn’t clear what, if anything,
Paddock planned with the ex-
plosives, he said.
Paddock, who set up surveil-
lance cameras in his room and
to see anyone approaching out-
side, also had an escape plan,
Lombardo said, though he fatal-
ly shot himself as police closed in
on his luxury suite on the 32nd
floor of the Mandalay Bay resort
casino.
The previous weekend, Pad-
dock had rented a high-rise con-
do in a building that overlooked
the Life Is Beautiful alternative
music festival, said Lombardo,
who offered no other details
about what led Paddock there.
On Sept. 28, the 64-year-old
high-stakes gambler and real es-
tate investor checked into Man-
dalay Bay and specifically re-
quested an upper-floor room
with a view of the Route 91 Har-
vest music festival, according to
a person who has seen hotel re-
cords turned over to investiga-
tors.
In an effort to try to crack
Stephen Paddock’s state of
mind, the FBI spent hours on
Wednesday interviewing his
longtime girlfriend, who re-
turned Tuesday from a weeks-
long overseas trip and said she
had no inkling of the massacre
he was plotting when he sent her
to see family in her native Philip-
pines.
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Evan Vucci/AP
President Donald Trump listens to Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo during a meeting
with first responders Wednesday in Las Vegas.
Trump in Vegas: ‘America
truly a nation in mourning’
“He never said anything to
me or took any action that I was
aware of that I understood in
any way to be a warning that
something horrible like this was
going to happen,” Marilou Dan-
ley, 62, said in a statement read
by her lawyer outside FBI head-
quarters in Los Angeles.
Clark County Sheriff Joseph
Lombardo said it’s difficult to
believe Paddock acted alone in
the attack Sunday that killed 58
and injured nearly 500 people at
a country music concert on the
Las Vegas Strip.
“Maybe he’s a super guy,”
Lombardo said before catching
himself and calling it the wrong
word. ‘You know, a super yay-
hoo that was working out all this
on his own. But it would be hard
for me to believe that.”
Danley, whom authorities
had previously called “a person
ofinterest,’’had been expected to
provide insight into the mind of
Paddock, a ffustratingly opaque
figure who carried out his high-
rise massacre without leaving
the plain-sight clues often found
after major acts of bloodshed.
Lombardo said Wednesday
that Paddock had 1,600 rounds
of ammunition and several con-
fire, others from chaotic efforts
to escape.
In Las Vegas, Trump spoke of
the families who “tonight will go
to bed in a world that is suddenly
inspire all of us to show more
love every day for the people
who grace our lives,” Trump said.
The president spent about
four hours in a city still reeling
from the worst mass shooting in
modem American history.
His first stop was the Univer-
sity Medical Center, where he
spent over 90 minutes visiting
with recovering victims, some
with severe injuries, and listen-
ing to their stories.
Tiffany Huizar, 18, from San-
ta Ana, Calif., is recovering from
bullet wounds in the stomach
President visits
with victims, first
responders, doctors
Harrisburg, Pa.
GOP Rep. Murphy to
retire after affair reports
empty.’
‘Our souls are stricken with
By Catherine Lucey
and Jill Colvin
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — Solemn in
the face of tragedy, President
Donald Trump visited hospital
bedsides and a vital police base
in stricken Las Vegas on
Wednesday, offering prayers and
condolences to the victims of
Sunday night’s shooting massa-
cre, along with the nation’s
thanks to first responders and
doctors who mshed to save lives.
“America is truly a nation in
mourning,” the president de-
clared, days after a gunman on
the 32nd floor of a hotel and ca-
sino opened fire on the crowd at
an outdoor country music festi-
val below. The rampage killed at
least 58 people and injured
more than 500, many from gun-
grief for every American who lost
ahusband or awife, amother or a
father, a son or a daughter,” he told
them. ‘We know that your sorrow
feels endless. We stand together
to help you carry your pain.”
On Wednesday, Tmmp took
a grim tour of Las Vegas, meet-
ing face-to-face with victims and
first responders.
In prepared remarks, he
spoke of the courage displayed
by those who risked or lost their
lives saving loved ones and total
strangers. He described an eye-
witness account of police officers
standing as bullets slammed
around them and trying to di-
rect concertgoers to safety.
“The example of those whose
final act was to sacrifice them-
selves for those they love should
Republican
congressman
Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania
announced Wednesday that he
would not run for a ninth term,
amid tawdry revelations of an
extramarital affair in which the
anti-abortion lawmaker urged
his mistress to get an abortion
when he thought she was preg-
nant.
Paddock wired $100,000 to
the Philippines days before the
shooting, said a U.S. official who
was not authorized to speak
publicly because of the continu-
ing investigation. Investigators
are trying to trace that money.
Danley, who was overseas for
more than two weeks, said she
was initially pleased when she
was wired money from Paddock
to buy a house for her family in
the Philippines. But she later
feared it was a way to break up
with her.
and elbow. She said Trump “was
very comforting and like a father
figure.”
Washington
Republicans, Democrats
fight over funding CHIP
Trump then headed to the
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
headquarters, where he met
with officers, dispatchers and
others who’d responded to the
shooting Sunday night.
“You showed the world, and
the world is watching,” he told
them, “and you showed what
professionalism is all about.”
Republicans pushed a bill ex-
tending financing for a popular
health insurance program for
children through a House com-
mittee Wednesday, but partisan
divisions over how to pay for it
suggest that congressional ap-
proval will take time despite
growing pressure on lawmakers
to act.
Lewisville joins race
to lure Amazon HQ
AUBREY
The House Energy and Com-
merce Committee approved the
measure on a party-line 28-23
vote. The program covers 8.9
million low-income children,
and a renewal of funds for it
seems virtually inevitable.
But four days after the pro-
gram’s federal funding expired,
the bill’s problems were under-
scored as Democrats opposed
GOP plans for financing the ex-
tension and a related communi-
ty health center bill.
PEANUT FESTIVAL
property,” Stanley said. “We have
our first 240,000-square-foot
office building that is shovel-
ready. This 135 acres is planned
where it could be 3 million-plus
square feet of construction.”
The 20-year-old Castle Hills
development covers 2,600 acres
in Lewisville and Carrollton.
“When we are done, we are
approaching 5,000 houses,”
Stanley said. ‘We’ll have around
7.000 apartment units. Ulti-
mately, the retail component in
Castle Hills is 2 million square
feet. What we have in Castle
Hills is a diverse demographic
that continues to grow more di-
verse with the addition of multi-
family housing.”
Homes in Castle Hills start at
more than $300,000 and range
to over $1.5 million. More than
12.000 people now live in the
community, which is about 12
miles from DFW International
Airport.
Groups from all over North
Texas have responded to Ama-
zon’s request for potential head-
quarters sites, pitching locations
including Dallas, Denton, Fris-
co, Richardson and North Fort
Worth.
The giant digital retailer has
asked to have potential locations
submitted by Oct. 19.
By Steve Brown
The Dallas Morning News
stevebrown@dallasnews.com
Lewisville is jumping into the
race to land the huge Amazon
corporate campus.
The Denton County suburb
has teamed up with developer
Bright Realty to pitch a 135-acre
commercial development site in
the Castle Hills development on
Sam Rayburn Tollway.
Bright has spent more than a
year preparing the vacant tract
for a large-scale corporate cam-
pus project.
“It was always part of our de-
velopment plan for it to be an of-
fice park,” said Bright’s Eric
Stanley. We threw our hat in the
ring for Amazon with the city of
Lewisville.”
The Lewisville property is
one of more than a dozen North
Texas locations that economic
development groups and com-
mercial builders are promoting
as a potential site for Seattle-
based Amazon’s planned second
headquarters complex. The $5
billion project is expected to in-
clude more than 5 million
square feet and eventually house
up to 50,000 workers.
We currently have construc-
tion on a significant lake and a
water feature on the way on the
OCTOBER 7, 2017 PARADE BEGINS AT 10:00 A.M.
OVER 100 ARTS AND CRAFTS
GIFTS, MERCHANDISE, AND
FOOD VENDORS WILL BE
OPEN TILL 5:00PM
CHILDREN ACTIVITIES
HOSTED BY MIDWAY CHURCH.
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Dallas
Couple awarded $42M
after bad car repair work
A jury has awarded $42 mil-
lion to a Texas couple who were
trapped in their burning car fol-
lowing faulty repair work by a
body shop. The Dallas Morn-
ing News reports Marcia and
Matthew Seebachan were in a
car accident in December 2013.
The car caught fire and the roof
collapsed, trapping the couple
inside.
ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE
Fort Worth
Body found at home
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slayings in Arlington have led of-
ficers to a third body in Fort
Worth. The tip forwarded by Ar-
lington police led officers to the
body Wednesday at a vacant
home in a southwestern Fort
Worth neighborhood.
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opioid overdose victims.
In 2015, the Legislature passed
Senate Bill 1462, which permits
the prescription and dispensing
of an opioid antagonist to persons
at risk of experiencing an over-
dose, along with any person in a
position to assist in an overdose
emergency. The Texas Medical
Board asked Paxton to determine
if law enforcement agencies qual-
ify for the prescriptions.
With regard to distributing
an opioid antagonist, the statute
provides that a ‘person or orga-
nization acting under a standing
order [for a prescription]... may
distribute an opioid antagonist.’
Thus, the Legislature made
clear its intent that the law au-
thorizes both individuals and
law enforcement agencies to ob-
tain opioid antagonists by pre-
scription,” Paxton concluded.
More than 1,200 law enforce-
ment agencies nationwide carry
naloxone, which can save the life
of someone who has overdosed
on painkillers, heroin or other
opioid drugs as well as cure an
officer’s overexposure when re-
sponding to a call. The medical
effect of naloxone, which is usu-
ally administered as a nasal
spray or by auto-injector, has
been likened to resurrecting
someone from the dead.
“Experiences of law enforce-
ment agencies outside Texas
leave no question about the abil-
ity oflaw enforcement agencies to
assist a person experiencing an
opioid overdose,” Paxton wrote.
— Staff report
Paxton says law
agencies allowed
to stock naloxone
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