So far, Paddock doesn’t seem like a typical mass murderer, said Clint Van Zandt, a former FBI hostage negotiator and supervisor in the bureau’s behavioral science unit. Police also searched a two-bedroom home Paddock owned in a retirement community in Reno, 500 miles from Mesquite. Eric Paddock described her as kindly and said she sometimes sent cookies to his mother. Paddock lived there with his 62-year-old girlfriend, who authorities said was out of the country when the shooting happened. Heavily armed police searched Paddock’s home Monday in Mesquite, about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas near the Arizona border, looking for clues. He never said he’d lost four million dollars or something. He said he was not aware that his brother had gambling debts.
He described his brother as a multimillionaire and said they had business dealings and owned property together. Las Vegas Shooting Area Map: Mandalay Bay, Festival Grounds & SurroundingsĮric Paddock recalled receiving a recent text from his brother showing “a picture that he won $40,000 on a slot machine. Their mother spoke with him about two weeks ago, and when he found out recently that she needed a walker, he sent her one, Eric Paddock said. Stephen Paddock, who had worked previously as an accountant and never served in the military, was “not an avid gun guy at all,” though he had a couple of handguns and a long gun, he said.Įric Paddock also told The Associated Press that he had not talked to his brother in six months and last heard from him when Stephen checked in briefly by text message after Hurricane Irma. He never cared about any of that stuff,” Eric Paddock said as he alternately wept and shouted. “No affiliation, no religion, no politics. Eric Paddock, who spoke with reporters outside his home near Orlando, Florida, said even if his brother had been in financial trouble, the family could have bailed him out. Public records offered no hint of financial distress or criminal history. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility, without offering evidence, but Aaron Rouse, the FBI agent in charge in Las Vegas, said investigators saw no connection to international terrorism.Īsked about a potential motive, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said he could not “get into the mind of a psychopath at this point.” The 64-year-old gunman killed himself in the hotel room before authorities arrived. It was the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. Las Vegas Shooting Eyewitnesses Share Firsthand Accounts: 'I Kept Saying That This Was My Time'Īt least 59 people were killed and nearly 530 injured in Paddock’s attack on the Route 91 Harvest Festival, where country music star Jason Aldean was performing for more than 22,000 fans.
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