“No affiliation, no religion, no politics. Mr 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 Mr 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 US history. “There’s just nothing.”Īt least 58 people were killed and more than 500 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. “I can’t even make something up,” his bewildered brother, Mr Eric Paddock, told reporters Monday. Nothing in his background suggests why he would have been on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino with at least 17 guns on Sunday (Oct 1) night, raining an unparalleled slaughter upon an outdoor country music festival below. He was a multimillionaire real-estate investor, recently shipped his 90-year-old mother a walker and liked to travel to Las Vegas to play high-stakes video poker. MESQUITE (Nevada) - Stephen Paddock lived in a tidy Nevada retirement community where the amenities include golf, tennis and bocce.
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