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LAS VEGAS — Stephen Paddock was a contradiction: a gambler who took no chances. A man with houses everywhere who did not really live in any of them. Someone who liked the high life of casinos but drove a nondescript minivan and dressed casually, even sloppily, in flip-flops and sweatsuits. He did not use Facebook or Twitter, but spent the past 25 years staring at screens of video poker machines.Mr. Paddock, a former postal worker and tax auditor, lived an intensely private, unsocial life that exploded into public view on Sunday, when he killed 58 people at a country music...

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Go to 3 minutes in. Can clearly here the first few shots (.308) the Sheriff says were aimed at the airplane fuel tanker near the concert. The steady firing starts at 3:50, but sounds like a shot or two goes off at the same time as the steady firing starts.

America waits, while the FBI lags. For goodness sake the FBI Agent-In-Charge looks like he is taking his mid-day snooze at all the Pressers. Here is a list of things we should know already. - What is the political history of this guy? Is he a Republican, Democrat or, something else? Has he voted? Has he attended any political rallies? Has he donated any money to any political figures, Obama, Clinton, Sanders, Trump, etc.? - What does his Filipina girlfriend really know? The "bull" story of her telling the FBI that he was a kind, gentle man that she loved,...

Dr. Mark Christian, a former Muslim imam and expert on Wahabbist and Salafist Islamic teachings, said he believes ISIS is milking the Las Vegas massacre for all it’s worth and will, in time, provide some type of evidence of its involvement, possibly a video. “How would ISIS have known that U.S. investigators wouldn’t find a different motive that would debunk their claim?” said Christian, founder and director of the Global Faith Institute. *snip Former secret service agent Dan Bongino said the case is unlike any other mass shooting he’s seen. “This case is really an enigma,” he told Fox News’...

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On Sunday some people on my Facebook feed were claiming that the biggest challenge facing America was NFL players deciding to kneel during the National Anthem, but on Monday the mayhem in Las Vegas brought them some much-needed perspective. After news of the massacre, the worst in modern American history, broke, a crowd of commentators stepped forward to warn us all not to debate or politicize it. “Show some restraint, they scolded us. Show some class. It’s too soon.” Too soon? Do you remember similar calls for restraint after 9/11? Do you recall conservative commentators warning us that now was...

Investigators acknowledge at least one other person could have known about Stephen Paddock’s plan to execute dozens of country music concertgoers in Las Vegas. Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McCahill, after declaring law enforcement had already chased more than 1,000 leads, said Friday they remained unsure if someone had advance word of the carnage. “I can tell you this: We are very confident that there was not another shooter in the room,” McCahill said. “What I cannot confirm to you, and what we continue to investigate, is whether anybody else might have known about this incident before he carried it out.”...

Shooter tried to buy tracer rounds Paddock tried to buy tracer ammunition at a gun show in the Phoenix area in recent weeks, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation tells CNN. Paddock bought other ammunition at the show, but he couldn't obtain the tracer ammunition -- bullets with a pyrotechnic charge that, when the round is fired, leaves an illuminated trace of its path -- because the vendor didn't have any to sell, the official said.

Gateway Pundit is sharing a report from SunOnline which appears to contradict the framework of what Marilou Danley has stated to law enforcement. At least as it has been described by media. Previously, media have stated Marilou Danley had no idea Stephen Craig Paddock had dozens of rifles and weapons stored in the house. Additionally, again according to media reports, Danley and Paddock lived together and she left for a vacation to visit friends before he went on the attack in Las Vegas. However, according to neighbors of the house in Reno, these media reports don’t match the actual behavior:...

“King of Instagram” Dan Bilzerian begged a cop for his gun during the Las Vegas massacre, and the officer told him to “get the f–k away.” The millionaire gambler asks for a weapon while viewers hear gunshots ring out overhead. Bilzerian, best known for posting snaps of himself with a harem of scantily clad women on Instagram, was criticized for allegedly running from the carnage without helping the injured. As many as 59 people were killed and more than 500 injured when warped killer Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire on a music concert from the window of his hotel room...

The killer was a white guy, a Christian by birth if not belief. He was not radical, just a crazed man given the means by the gun lobby to terrorize innocent concertgoers in Las Vegas on Sunday night, shooting to death 59 of them. Stephen C. Paddock was, by all accounts so far, an ordinary American. That is what most terrifies the right. And so, some on the far right have convinced themselves that Paddock could not be what he seems, what the authorities say he is. They say facts—alternative facts, perhaps—will inevitably reveal the truth, even as mainstream media...

Investigators are trying to nail down whether anyone else was in the hotel suite reserved by the Las Vegas gunman during the time he was registered there, multiple senior law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation into the shooting told NBC News. The investigators are puzzled by two discoveries: First, a charger was found that does not match any of the cell phones that belonged to Stephen Paddock, the man who killed himself inside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino after sending a barrage of bullets down on a crowd of 22,000 people below. And second, garage records show that...

On the night before Stephen Paddock carried out the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, he twice called security at the Las Vegas hotel where he was staying to complain about loud music, a law enforcement source told CBS News. The noise was coming from the floor below his suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel casino on the Las Vegas Strip, CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton reports. Albert Garzon of San Diego told The New York Times that security guards asked him to turn down the country music playing in his suite on...

As more details emerge about the life of Stephen Paddock, one thing is clear: on paper, he does not appear to fit a typical profile of a mass shooter. The 64-year-old former accountant who carried out the deadly massacre in Las Vegas on Sunday night was a successful real estate investor who stayed in touch with family and took care of his mother. He was a gambler, but not a reckless one. It appears Paddock liked to have a strategy. Over the past three decades, Paddock was involved in nearly a dozen real estate deals. At first, he invested in...

Investigators in Las Vegas are sifting through evidence they've gathered from the homes of the man who sprayed a concert crowd with gunfire. They've begun to interview his girlfriend. They've learned quite a bit about Stephen Paddock's past and preparation, but there is still no explanation why he damaged and destroyed so many lives. Ken Russell is a retired wildlife biologist who lives in the same neighborhood where the Las Vegas shooter lived, in the sunny retirement community of Sun City Mesquite. That the carnage on Sunday night was carried out by someone living there was a shock, he said....

Danley met Paddock in Vegas. From 2010-2013, Danley worked at Atlantis Casino Resort Spa which Paddock frequented as a high-stakes gambler. In 2015 Danley divorced her husband of 25 yrs. (Geary Danley) while specifying one of Paddock’s homes as her address. One Atlantis employee said, “Then she was just gone one day … I asked some fellow workers and they said she went off with Stephen.”

The Las Vegas gunman was allergic to certain chemicals and medications — and often wore gardening gloves around so he wouldn’t get rashes, his brother said Wednesday. (snip) It also emerged Wednesday that Paddock was prescribed 50 10-milligram tablets of diazepam — commonly called Valium — on June 21 by Dr. Steven Winkler, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

From the professor who brought us 2016’s “All I want for Christmas is White Genocide” tweet, comes another inane and callous blurb capturing his depravity as it relates to the slaughter in Las Vegas Sunday night. Ciccariello, the professor of politics at Drexel University who is known to go on white supremacist tirades, tweeted, “White people and men are told that they are entitled to everything. This is what happens when they don’t get what they want.” He explains that for the past 40 years a “nar

"We’re wealthy people," Eric Paddock said. "$100,000 isn’t that much money.... He gambled that much through a machine in hours.... He’s got the highest level of membership card at a lot of these [casino] hotels. If a lot of these hotels say they don’t know Steve, they’re lying." (snip) Paddock remembered his brother as a man who used his money to take care of his family financially. "He helped make me and my family wealthy. I mean, he’s the reason I was able to retire three years ago when I got really burned out doing the job I did," Eric...