By KEN RITTER, MICHAEL BALSAMO and BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history led a “secret life” that has so far thwarted investigators trying to figure out a motive for the attack, authorities said Wednesday. In an effort to try to crack Stephen Paddock’s …
The man who shot at a crowd of concertgoers while perched from his 32nd floor hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, was an unknown outsider to his neighbors in a close-knit retirement community in a Mesquite, Nevada, neighborhood. Reuters reports that Paddock’s neighbors in Mesquite, Nevada, knew little about Paddock, …
The gunman who killed 59 people at a country music concert Sunday night might have originally targeted another Las Vegas festival a week earlier. A law enforcement source told the Daily Beast that they’re investigating whether Stephen Paddock rented several condos at The Odgen. The 21-story tower’s north side overlooked this year’s “Life Is Beautiful” …
By KEN RITTER and MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas gunman transferred $100,000 overseas in the days before the attack and planned the massacre so meticulously that he even set up cameras inside the peephole of his high-rise hotel room and on a service cart outside his door, apparently to spot …
By KEN RITTER and GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press MESQUITE, Nev. (AP) — Stephen Paddock had a penchant for guns, high-limit video poker and real estate deals. His father was a notorious fugitive bank robber. He had a recent live-in girlfriend and two ex-wives and seemed to live a comfortable life in a Nevada retirement community. His …
The late father of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock was reportedly a bank robber who was placed on the FBI Most Wanted list. Eric Paddock, the shooter’s brother, told the Orlando Sentinel that their father was Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, who also went by Patrick Benjamin Paddock. Historical newspaper articles obtained by Fox News indicated that Benjamin was …
Shooter’s brother: “He was a guy who had money. He went on cruises and gambled.”
