Here's what dax is calling the 3-page FBI final report:
https://vpc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Las-Vegas-FBI-final-behavioral-unit-report-2019.pdfHere is some context, including that the "report" is a 3-page summary of key findings including that the gunman acted alone and without a clear motivating factor, mirroring what Metro PD had found:
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/fbi-analysis-offers-no-clear-cut-motive-behind-the-las-vegas-strip-mass-shooting The article and the document itself spell out that this sub-unit of FBI's vegas division was tasked to try to supplement or confirm the police's findings particularly as to any motive. The police report, 187 pages, is here:
https://www.lvmpd.com/en-us/Documents/1-October-FIT-Criminal-Investigative-Report-FINAL_080318.pdfThat sub-unit convened a panel of various behavior/psych experts, which came back with 10 key findings outlined in the summary at issue.
While disappointing to not land on a clear-cut motive, that's not unusual.
While some may be dismayed by the FBI's inability to answer why Paddock targeted those people on that particular day, Mynda Smith, whose sister was fatally shot, told NPR that she would rather he take his reasons to the grave than to have Paddock alive.
"I truly believe if he had lived, he would have made my parents' life miserable. We would've been caught up in trials and having to listen to things that he would say," Smith said.
The absence of a single motivating factor is not unusual, according to the FBI. And it places Paddock within the typical profile of other mass murder shooters who are prompted to violence by a "complex merging" of various stressors.
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/29/689821599/fbi-finds-no-motive-in-las-vegas-shooting-closes-investigationUnlike the victim's sister quoted above, then-president trump criticized "the fbi" in an interview with the daily caller, as we were reminded in this story from saturday:
https://www.newsweek.com/las-vegas-shooting-three-unanswered-questions-5-years-tragedy-1748137Sounds like after the police-led initial investigation concluded there was no motive, the local FBI branch's sub-unit on behavior put in additional work to confirm that or to find the motive and brought in a panel of non-FBI eggheads to dig in. That panel found there indeed was no single clear motive, which is common, but identified the factors that combined in some way to lead the guy to doing this.
But there's good reason lately for maga to talk bad about the fbi, and maybe some knew back then that some preemptive bad talk would help down the road. Pointing to the original point break movie and claiming it was a documentary would've been a stronger campaign.
