Photographs obtained by Boston 25 News appear to show the weapons used by mass murderer Stephen Paddock in the Las Vegas shooting Sunday night.

The Fox affiliate station’s images, apparently taken inside the Mandalay Bay hotel suite from which Paddock launched his attack, show two assault-style weapons laying on the floor.

They were uploaded to Twitter by Jacqui Heinrich, a Boston local news anchor, who said she had exclusively obtained the photographs. She gave no details about how she got them.

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They show weapons with large magazines and bullet casings scattered on the floor around them. One has a telescopic sight and a stand. There is also a hammer on the floor.

According to Las Vegas police, Paddock had stockpiled 23 separate weapons in his room. He broke two windows in the suite and used an unknown number of his guns to pump bullets into a crowd of 22,000 country music fans below. He killed 59 people and injured more than 500.

SWAT teams broke into Paddock's room a little more than an hour after he first started shooting. They blasted his door open with explosives, by which time he had already killed himself.

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