FBI: Las Vegas Shooting Investigation 'Not An Episode Of CSI'

LAS VEGAS, NV - The FBI Chief leading the investigation into the Oct. 1 Las Vegas Shooting said that the bureau is in no rush to deliver an official report on the incident that left 58 concertgoers dead and over 500 injured.

Special Agent Aaron Rouse, who is in charge of the investigation for the FBI, told reporters for the Las Vegas Review-Journal that a report may be available next October.

"This is not an episode of 'CSI.' This is the real FBI, where we are going out there and waiting until we have all of the facts in before we make absolute conclusions regarding the matter," Rouse told the Review-Journal in an interview published Wednesday covering a range of topics related to the investigation.

Rouse said that the FBI is still working in partnership with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in the investigation, but has taken over the primary role.

"Because we have so much that we're doing in the FBI on the evidence collection with the victim wintesses, we have taken a more active role in the day-to-day of things," Rouse said. "But as I mentioned, the sole person who did this event is no longer with us for questions."

Rouse said in the interview that 22,000 hours of surveillance and 250,000 photos are among the evidence the FBI is investigating.

"Our goal is to be able to provide at the end of this full investigation to understand completely as much as we can without talking to the subject, what happened? And why?," Rouse said. "That's always going to take more time than people want because of the level of detail you're going to expect."

The Review-Journal asked Rouse about the initial timeline of events, which changed according to Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo in a series of press conferences following the event. Rouse refused to clarify the order of events, the paper reported.

To read the entire article, including video clips of the interview with Rouse, follow the link below to the full Las Vegas Review-Journal news piece.

FBI chief says report on Las Vegas shooting expected by anniversary

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