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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...

Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock has a younger brother who has a warrant out for his arrest, albeit for something far less menacing ... TMZ has learned. 57-year-old Bruce Paddock is wanted in L.A. County, according to docs, and it stems from one of his laundry list of violations. Paddock was busted for vandalism in 2014 -- he jacked up a moving company's property. Paddock pled no contest and got 150 hours of community service, but kept trying to get it reduced. When he no-show'd for a 2016 court date, the judge issued the bench warrant. We broke the story...

A brother of Strip shooter Stephen Paddock said Wednesday he is trying to raise $1 million for the victims of the mass killings outside Mandalay Bay. Eric Paddock, 55, said he is offering an exclusive interview about his late brother to a national news organization in return for the money. “I want $1 million donated to a victims fund,” he said, his voice choking in a telephone interview. “It’s ripping my family up, but I have to do this.” Paddock said he understands that most news organizations do not pay for interviews, but he is hoping someone might donate the...

WASHINGTON — Marilou Danley, the woman investigators hoped would provide key details into the motive behind her boyfriend's deadly shooting attack, said she remembers exhibiting symptoms such as lying in bed and moaning, according to two former FBI officials who have been briefed on the matter. "She said he would lie in bed, just moaning and screaming, 'Oh my God,'" one of the former officials said. The other former official said Danley spoke about Paddock displaying "mental health symptoms." Investigators believe Stephen Paddock may have been in physical or mental anguish, the sources said. But so far the FBI has...

Mass killer Stephen Paddock bought a high-powered hunting rifle just hours before he arrived in Las Vegas on his mission of death, DailyMail.com can reveal. But bizarrely the rifle wasn’t one of the 23 weapon haul found by police in his sniper’s nest hotel suite.

More news is coming out this morning on Stephen Paddocks, and it is not as cut and dried as I thought. This is a very complex case, and it seems everyone is reporting different aspects of the worst mass shooting in the history of the United States. Paddocks did not act alone. FBI reports there are many significant leads around the world with many flights taken by more than one person all over the world. Possibly, and this is just my opinion, many of Paddocks gambling trips could have been a cover for arms deals and terrorist connections. Was he...

Had it not been for Jesus Campos, a hotel security guard, the deadly Las Vegas shooting could have been a whole lot worse. As authorities hail Jesus for his heroic actions, find about the man who first confronted Stephen Paddock. 1. Jesus Campos was the first man to discover Stephen Paddock. 2. Yes, he had no gun on him when he found Stephen. Imagine rushing to stop an active shooter, armed only with a club. That’s exactly what Jesus did, as he was only equipped with a nightstick when he discovered Stephen’s location. 3. He still has the bullet in...

Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock reportedly researched hotels near Fenway Park in the run up to the deadliest shooting in recent American history. No hotel nearby the park commands a clear view of the Fenway stands. Officials briefed on the investigation's details spoke to reporters on the condition of anonymity Thursday, revealing Paddock researched Boston and booked a hotel room in Chicago overlooking Grant Park when the Lollapalooza music festival would have been going on. Boston police on Thursday issued a statement saying the department is aware Paddock likely researched the city and is working with federal authorities.

Las Vegas mass killer Stephen Paddock booked two hotel rooms overlooking the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago this summer, according to a report Thursday. Paddock specifically requested both rooms to have a sweeping view of Grant Park — about 500 yards away — but never showed up, sources told TMZ. Among the 400,000 people who packed the venue in the Windy City was Malia Obama, 19, the former president’s older daughter.

The Mandalay Bay shooter, Stephen Paddock, was apparently a big gambler. Various reports have it that he played the video poker machines. He would sit in front of them for hours, often wagering more than $100 a hand, reports The New York Times The top machines at Mandalay Bay, where Paddock often played, pay out 99.17 percent, or $99.17 for every $100 wagered. You aren't living off your gamblings with that kind of losing payout. Paddock's brother, Eric, seems to think...

So up to this point, we have an individual who had practically no social media presence or public footprint, no voting record, traveled heavily, had numerous homes which were paid for in cash, a foreigner for a girlfriend, wired $100,000 offshore to the Phillipines, was reclusive and never at home, had an abundance of money, an extremely large cache of weapons for someone who was not a “gun” guy, had worked for numerous government “contractors” most of which are in the defense and aerospace industry including Lockheed Martin, and recent revelations that there are strange inconsistencies with a previously owned...

Las Vegas police released a timeline Wednesday chronicling nearly 90 minutes of terror and chaos that unfolded after a shooter opened fire on a music festival Sunday. 10:05 p.m.: First shots fired 10:12 p.m.: Officers arrive on the 31st floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel and report that the gunfire is coming from directly above them 10:15 p.m.: Final shots fired 10:17 p.m.: First officers arrive on the 32nd floor 10:18 p.m.: Security guard tells officers he has been shot and gives them the gunman's room number 10:26 p.m.–10:30 p.m.: Additional officers arrive at the hotel and begin checking rooms...