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Photos showing the 64-year-old’s dead body and 23-gun arsenal were leaked to the public earlier this week.

Laying at Paddock’s feet is a note top of a side table – on what appears to be a yellow slip of paper next to a pen.

This revelation sparked questions worldwide as people desperately search for a motive for the massacre of 58 people at the Route 91 Harvest Festival.

Top cop Sheriff Joe Lombardo has now spoken out about the so-called note.

Paddock’s reasons for killing have not been revealed to the public, and there were hopes a “suicide note” may help solve the mystery.

The millionaire property developer was found dead with a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound after spending nine minutes unloading hundreds of rounds at the crowd gathered just-off the Strip.

Sheriff Lombardo, of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, addressed the paper in a press conference, clarifying it was “not a suicide note”.

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In last night’s briefing, he was asked “In the leaked photos there appears to be a yellow note, can you tell us anything about that?”

The cop responded: “No I don’t. I can’t recall.”

When pressed, he said “No, no. It was not a suicide note. I am comfortable in saying that.”

However, Sheriff Lombardo failed to clarify what – if anything – was written on the slip.

Pictures of the room show shell casings littering the floor, a bipod mounted weapon lying next to Paddock, and an arsenal of guns scattered about the room.

The paper is placed next to his body, with what appears to be a pen a roll of green tape.

Elsewhere in the room, neat stacks of unspent ammo are piled up, and cops revealed somewhere in the room Paddock had placed a camera.

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Paddock’s motives are feared to never be fully understood, but police admitted today he may not have acted alone.

Officers investigating the killer believe he lived a “secret life” and spent decades hoarding weapons for his meticulously planned massacre.

His girlfriend Marilou Danley – who was quizzed by the FBI – said she had no idea Paddock was going to commit the slaughter.

Sheriff Lombardo said: “At face value he had to have some help at some point and we want to ensure that that’s the answer

“Maybe he was a superhuman who figured this out all on his own but it would be hard for me to believe that.”

Gambling debts, illness, mental health problems and radicalisation have all be suggested as motives for the massacre on Sunday.

ISIS claimed responsibility, but the authorities have rubbished this as the death cult being desperate.

However, jihadis continue to release propaganda claiming Paddock had “converted six months ago” and was acting on orders from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.