Niall said:
hiker said:
That's the single best video evidence for multiple shooters I've seen, filmed by a taxi driver who drove from the Mandalay to the concert venue during the shooting.
While she's stuck at the entrance/taxi ramp at the beginning of that video, you can clearly hear that gunfire is coming from at least two different locations; one that is close (above her head, presumably, from inside the Mandalay) and one or more from elsewhere, further away.
The most important bits of the video are in the first 70 seconds or so. At 1:12.5 there is a long string of loud shots, but they are significantly muted part way through as the cabbie enters a tunnel and shuts her window. At that point, the quieter/muted shots are no longer audible. So, looking at the 70 seconds before that, there are three strings of gunshots. I opened the audio up in audacity, slowed it down and took a listen. Here's what I noticed.
0:04.2 - There is a loud string of 8 shots. After a 2.07-second delay, we hear another 8 shots that sound more distant.
0:46.1 - Here we hear a string of 2+11 muffled shots (also a few muffled bursts around 0:52 while she is talking). No loud shots.
1:08.1 - Another loud string of 13 shots followed by a string of muffled shots. Some are barely audible. In the string of 13 shots, the 10th makes the loudest spike. The loudest spike in the muffled shots occurs 2.08 seconds after the 10th shot.
I think it's more likely that the muffled shots heard after the loud shots at 0:04 and 1:08 are echoes. Unless the second shooter almost perfectly mimicked the original shots in number and duration, with a near-identical delay each time.
That leaves the shots at 0:46. They sound similar to the echoes in the other two sections, but there are no audible louder shots. Without knowing more about gunfire and acoustics, I'd say we'd have to look at a couple possibilities: 1) second shooter, 2) same shooter, but from a slightly different shooting position, e.g. further back in the room, away from the window, or through a different window.
Perhaps the two broken windows visible in later photos has something to do with it. They face in different directions. The cabbie's location relative to both windows might have affected how the sound from either window reached her mic. However, we don't know if Paddock shot out both those windows, or if one was smashed during the police operation on that floor.
