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Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock rented a room in downtown Las Vegas through Airbnb at The Ogden around the same time as the Life is Beautiful concert, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said Wednesday.
The Life is Beautiful concert took place from September 22 to 25.
The girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman who shot dead 58 people on Sunday has said she had no idea what her "kind, caring, quiet" partner was planning.
Marilou Danley arrived back in the US on Tuesday, two days after her partner Stephen Paddock carried out the attack.
In a statement read by her lawyer, Ms Danley said Paddock "never said anything to me or took any action" which she understood as a warning of what was to come.
"I loved him and hoped for a quiet future together with him," she said, expressing shock at the "horrible unspeakable acts of violence"
Paddock had committed.
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Marilou Danley said that she was worried her boyfriend, Stephen Paddock, was going to break up with her when he bought her a cheap ticket to the Philippines about two weeks ago, then wired her money to buy her and her family a house there.
But Danley, in a statement read by her attorney, said she didn't know Paddock had planned to carry out a mass shooting.
In her first public remarks since Paddock killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 in Las Vegas on Sunday night, Danley said Paddock -- a man she described as "kind" -- never gave her any clues or any warning "that something horrible like this was going to happen."
"It never occurred to me in any way whatsoever that he was planning violence against anyone," she said in the statement.
Danley, who lived with Paddock in Mesquite, Nevada and was out of the country during the shooting, returned to the United States on Tuesday night from the Philippines and spoke to the FBI and the Las Vegas police, her attorney Matt Lombard confirmed.
"I will cooperate fully with their investigation," she said in the statement. "Anything I can do to help ease suffering and help in any way, I will do."
Motive still a mystery
Danley's statement sheds little light on what led the 64-year-old retired accountant to fire from his 32nd-floor hotel room window into a crowd of 22,000 concertgoers in the heart of Las Vegas.
Almost three days after the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, investigators appear no closer to answering the question: Why?
Why did he continue firing with an arsenal of weapons for nine to 11 minutes?
At this point, Paddock's motive and aims remain a mystery to investigators. FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told CNBC on Wednesday that the lack of a clear motive was a "surprise" in this mass shooting.
"This one is somewhat different than many of the ones we've dealt with in the past, because we don't have any immediately accessible thumbprints that would indicate the shooter's ideology or motivation, or really what compelled him to get there," McCabe said.
Police believe Paddock acted alone when he sprayed gunfire on the crowd at the Route 91 Harvest festival.
McCabe told CNN that the FBI was going through Paddock's communications, financial records, associates and video surveillance -- anything to try to piece together the puzzle of his motive.
"We will look at every one of those lanes, pull every possible thread," he said.
Authorities are hoping to find answers from their interview with Danley on Wednesday.
Wounded security guard recovering
David Hickey, president of the union representing the hotel's officers, identified the wounded guard on Wednesday as Jesus Campos.
Paddock had barricaded the stairwell doors and pointed his makeshift cameras system toward the elevator as Campos approached, said Hickey, head of the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America.
Campos, who was shot in the right leg, was out of the hospital on Wednesday. He was expected to have a round removed from his leg at a later date, Hickey said.
The union has seventeen armed officers at Mandalay Bay.
Hickey was uncertain if Campos was armed.
(CNN & BBC)
