Las Vegas gunman described as wealthy gambler, loner
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Stephen Paddock appeared to be settling into a quiet life two years ago when the wealthy 64-year-old apartment manager and high-stakes gambler bought a home in a rural Nevada retirement community, an hour's drive from his beloved Las Vegas casinos.
Those who knew him say there was no indication he was capable of holing up in a room on the 32nd floor of one of those casinos, the Mandalay Bay, and opening fire on a country music festival across the street, killing 58 people and wounding more than 500 others the worst mass shooting in modern US history.
"He was a wealthy guy and he liked to play video poker and he liked to go on cruises," the gunman's seemingly baffled brother, Eric Paddock, told reporters from his doorstep in Orlando, Florida, on Monday, the day after the shooting. "He's never drawn his gun, it makes no sense," Eric Paddock said. He said he was aware that his brother had a couple of handguns he kept in a safe, perhaps a long rifle, but no automatic weapons.
