A team of Review-Journal reporters were in Mesquite looking into Stephen Paddock’s past on Friday. They report on what they found during their interviews at businesses and with Mesquite officials.
The Shooter
The father of Mandalay Bay shooter Stephen Paddock represented himself as a self-ordained minister who married couples in the late 1980s and planned to open a church in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas police think Stephen Paddock might have shot at a fuel tank near the Route 91 Harvest country music festival before opening fire on the crowd but have yet to find a motive for the massacre, Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill.
Stephen Paddock, the gunman who sprayed bullets on concert-goers last Sunday in Las Vegas, was “very unfriendly” while his girlfriend was just the opposite, says a Dayton man who interacted with both.
An Oklahoma City man faces charges of threatening to blow up a temporary employment agency while referencing the deadly Las Vegas shooting.
The man who killed 58 people on the Las Vegas Strip before turning a gun on himself purchased at least 33 firearms over the past year, including from stores in Las Vegas, Mesquite and St. George, Utah.
Australian police are assisting their U.S. counterparts on the investigation into Las Vegas shooter’s girlfriend Marilou Danley.
“Psychopath has become a shorthand term for a sadistic, extraordinarily violent individual,” says UNLV professor who has researched psychopaths for years. “… That’s not Paddock.”
Las Vegas police announced they found Hyundai Tucson they had been seeking in connection with Sunday’s mass shooting investigation.
Investigators are looking into whether gunman Stephen Paddock scoped out bigger music festivals in Las Vegas and Chicago — and perhaps Boston’s Fenway Park — before setting up his perch in a casino hotel and raining deadly fire on country music fans.
Stephen Paddock’s casino game of choice — video poker — was a perfect means to win money in a way that he could get complimentary rooms, like the Mandalay Bay suite where he died Sunday night, without raising suspicion.
The brother of Strip shooter Stephen Paddock said Wednesday he is trying to raise $1 million for the victims of the mass killings outside the Mandalay Bay.
Diazepam, the anti-anxiety medicine prescribed for Las Vegas gunman less than four months before the mass shooting, has a deserved reputation as a Jekyll-and-Hyde drug, calming some and causing others to become more aggressive.
The Las Vegas shooter was prescribed anti-anxiety medication in June. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Stephen Paddock was a ghost in the place he called home before killing at least 59 and injuring at least 527 people during a country music festival Sunday night.
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