Update from about a half hour ago. The interesting thing here is a continued backing away from the absolute declaration last night that this was not terrorism. It's back to the "we don't suspect it, but we don't know" phase.
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/i-team-who-is-lakeisha-hollowayAlthough police have a suspect in the deadly rampage on the Las Vegas Strip, many questions remain about her and a possible motive for this horrific act.
Who is Lakeisha Holloway? And is there something in her past that might explain what happened?
Several obvious areas are being explored.
First, was there drug or alcohol impairment? Police say alcohol is not likely, but drugs possibly played a role.
Another question was whether this attack was pre-meditated or a possible act of terror?
Police don't suspect terror, at this point, but can't rule it out until they know more about Holloway's background.
Out of the carnage that claimed one life and left dozens of others changed forever, there is a question that perhaps only the suspect can answer.
"What caused her to do this? We need to be more comfortable in the reasons behind that and -- in particular -- what her background is that we need to be aware of," said Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo.
A video featuring Lakeisha Holloway can be found online. It was made five years tells a story of how she beat the odds. Holloway was homeless teen and a single parent with alcohol problems. In 2012, she was honored as a role model by the Portland, Oregon Opportunity Industrialization Center.
Holloway ended up graduating high school, attended college and landed a job with the forest service. In the video, Holloway describes her transformation.
"Today, I'm not the scared little girl I used to be. I'm a mature young woman who has broken many generational cycles that those before me hadn't."
How Holloway went from apparent success story to accused killer in a vehicle rampage on the Strip remains a mystery. But it does appear she'd been in Las Vegas about a week living out of her car with her 3-year old daughter who is now in protective custody.
"We haven't determined to the exact fact what the motive was," Lombardo said. "We believe she had some disassociation with the father of her child."
"Her being in Las Vegas for approximately a week and homeless and residing in her vehicle -- we don't know exactly the percipient event that caused her to snap and/or whether it was planned previously.
The child's father, Lombardo says, appears to live in the Dallas, Texas area and Holloway may have been working her way toward Texas via Las Vegas. Though a motive is still only speculation -- Lombardo says video from surveillance cameras shows the attack itself was clearly intentional.
Wolfson says additional charges are likely as the investigation continues and those charges might include a slew of attempted murder charges for each person injured or forced to flee from the attack.
