‘THEORIES ARE GREAT’

FBI Rebukes Vegas Sheriff’s Shooter ‘Theories’

Slams Clark County chief for telling reporters Paddock may have had help.

Authorities in Las Vegas say the gunman who killed 58 people Sunday at a country-music festival may have intended to survive and escape. Sheriff Joseph Lombardo even speculated that Stephen Paddock, who died in the hotel room from where he carried out the attack, had help. “Do you think this was all accomplished on his own?” Lombardo asked reporters, noting the arsenal of weapons found in the wake of the shooting. “You’ve got to make the assumption he had to have some help at some point.” Meanwhile, the FBI issued a veiled rebuke of some of Lombardo’s comments just moments later. “Theories are great and everyone can have a theory,” said Aaron Rouse, who runs the bureau’s Las Vegas division. “But I need to deal with facts. The sheriff needs to deal with facts.”