An Arizona man has charged in connection to the Las Vegas shooting last October that left fifty-eight people dead and wounded hundreds of others. The shooter, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock fired on a crowd of concert goers from his hotel room on the thirty-second floor overlooking the event.
Police found armor-piercing bullets inside Paddock’s room. Those bullets contained the fingerprints of ammunition dealer Douglas Haig of Arizona. Haig didn’t have a license to manufacture armor-piercing bullets.
Haig, a 55-year-old aerospace engineer, said that he didn’t find anything to be out of the ordinary with Paddock when he sold him the bullets. “I couldn’t detect anything wrong with this guy,” Haig said. “He told me exactly what he wanted. I handed him a box with the ammunition in it, and he paid me and he left.”
Haig said me met Paddock at a Phoenix gun show weeks before the attack. He described Paddock as being well-dressed and polite.
An attorney for Haig said that they held a news conference in order to protect Haig’s reputation. Haig’s identity was revealed this week by mistake after his name was not redacted in court documents.
“I had no contribution to what Paddock did,” Haig said. “I had no way to see into his mind.”