Posted on 11/03/2017 3:07:15 PM PDT by familyop
Gunman Stephen Paddock lost a large amount of wealth in the two years before the Oct. 1 shooting on the Strip, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said in an interview with a local television station.
Lombardo told KLAS-TV, Channel 8, that Paddock’s wealth fluctuated because of gambling, real estate transactions and “everything else that he chose to do.” Paddock lost a large amount of money after September 2015, the sheriff said.
Lombardo speculated that the financial losses might have contributed to Paddock’s decision to spray a country music festival with bullets, killing 58 people and injuring more than 500 others.
“I think that might have a determining factor on what he determined to do,” Lombardo said in the interview, which aired Wednesday night.
Later, Lombardo said, “If you look at the numbers that he did gamble, he was pretty prolific, but he was going in the wrong direction, so I don’t know if that had any effect on what he decided to do.”
Lombardo could not be reached Thursday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The sheriff told Channel 8 that Paddock was concerned with his status in casinos and with friends and family. “Obviously, that was starting to decline in a short period of time, and that may have a determining effect on why he decided to do what he did,” Lombardo said. He said authorities have not determined a clear motive for the shooting.
Investigators also have not been able to pinpoint a moment in Paddock’s life that would have led him to amass dozens of weapons since October 2016, he said. “I actually hope we find something in the pathology of his brain that will help us understand this,” Lombardo said.
Paddock’s brain tissue was sent to Stanford University School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology for a neuropathological examination, Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said in the weeks after the shooting.
Nope. Explained in post #72.
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CC
You’re buying some of the media’s narrative. This WAS NOT the biggest mass shooting in US history. That appellation goes to a race riot in the late 19th century.
CC
Thanks for the correction. But still it was a huge ghastly shooting, innocent concert goers in a barrel. I’d like to see it stay in our atemtion and more of the questions answered. Looking at his effing BRAIN????? That will tell NOTHING because any of us could have a brain tumor that is not harming our thought processes or actions at all, but post Mortem, doctors could say it might have been a cause of some action. It would be an excuse found so the search for the truth stops.
Looking at his brain? It was all over the wall. Seriously, something is not adding up on this one, that much I’ll agree with.
CC
Was Paddock right or left-handed?
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