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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
A Henderson doctor wrote a prescription for the drug diazepam for Stephen Paddock, 64 of Mesquite and he filled it the same day in Reno, according to a state Prescription Monitoring Program record obtained by the Review-Journal.
This compilation of images widely reported in the media show Stephen Paddock and some views inside the Mandalay Bay hotel room following Sunday night’s shooting.
Why Stephen Paddock decided to unleash rapid gunfire into a crowd of more than 22,000 people from his Mandalay Bay corner suite remains the million-dollar question, and the one person who may have answers was halfway around the world in the days following the deadly Route 91 Harvest Festival attack.
The brother of Strip mass killer Stephen Paddock wept Monday morning as he reacted to the news of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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