Second person of interest emerges after judge unseals Las Vegas shooting records

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. district judge ruled on Tuesday to unseal nearly 300 pages of search warrant records issued by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) after the deadest mass shooting in the modern history of the United States last October.

According to the documents, for the first time, an additional "person of interest" in the massacre on the Las Vegas Strip was identified. The first is shooter Stephen Paddock's girlfriend, Marilou Danley. She was in the Philippines at the time of the attack and is cooperating with investigators.

Paddock opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Oct. 1, killing 58 people and injuring more than 800 others.

After the bloody shooting, Danley was hunted by the LVMPD as a "person of interest" until the policemen dropped all suspicion against her a few days later.

"Until the investigation can rule otherwise, Marilou Danley and Douglas Haig have become persons of interest who may have conspired with Stephen Paddock to commit Murder with a Deadly Weapon," according to the document, which was prepared in October and unsealed by Elissa Cadish, Judge of Eighth Judicial District Court of Clark County, Nevada.

So far, there is no any details about Douglas Haig, while the LVMPD and FBI have no comment to the latest information, which was disclosed after local media sought the court to unseal the records related to the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting.

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo was quoted by the Las Vegas Review Journal as saying that he could not comment on a federal case, "If you've got it, publish it."

The LVMPD released a preliminary investigative report on the Las Vegas mass shooting on Jan. 20. At a press conference that day, Lombardo noted that the FBI had an open investigation into an unnamed person of interest, though he repeatedly said Paddock was the only shooter.

Lombardo also said he expected a final report on the shooting to be released before the end of 2018. Enditem