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'He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped' -Las Vegas shooter's brother says family is (TR)
Daily Mail ^ | October 2, 2017 | Daniel Bates

Posted on 10/02/2017 5:42:48 AM PDT by Perseverando

Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas Village early on Monday morning killing at least 50

His brother Eric tells DailyMail.com his family have no idea what happened to make him shoot

'He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something,' he said

The brother of the Las Vegas shooter said that he was a normal guy who must have 'snapped' before carrying out the worst mass shooting in American history.

In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Eric Paddock said that 'something happened' to make his brother Stephen kill at least 50 people and injure 200.

Eric said that there was 'absolutely no indication he could do something like this' and said that Stephen had no political or religious affiliation.

He said: 'He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something'.

Speaking from his home in Orlando, Florida, Eric said: 'We know absolutely nothing, this is just, we are dumbfounded.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: lasvegas; lefty; mandalaybay; paddock; stephenpaddock
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To: Perseverando

If he were a right-wing extremist it’s very dubious he would have chosen a country music venue at his Massacre site.

I’d say this is a leftist extremist or someone who was on medication and went off.

Also they are seldom saying “Pulse Nightclub shooting” which makes me think they want the public to forget completely about Lefty Muzzy shootings.

I think this is a lefty.

They’re also not saying “DC baseball field shooting”.


21 posted on 10/02/2017 5:48:28 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: x1stcav

Remember Ted Bundy’s friends and acquaintances? He was just the nicest guy and they just KNEW he was not the guy the cops were looking for. Except he was.

You don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors. A search of his internet activity would be very revealing.


22 posted on 10/02/2017 5:49:08 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Perseverando
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Eric Paddock said that 'something happened' to make his brother Stephen kill at least 50 people and injure 200. Eric said that there was 'absolutely no indication he could do something like this' and said that Stephen had no political or religious affiliation.

I'm calling BS on this garbage. I'lll wager that this brother is a registered democrat and a supporter of Bernie Sanders or Mrs. Bill Clinton.

23 posted on 10/02/2017 5:49:29 AM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: nhwingut
This was preplanned. He didn’t “just snap.”

I agree. From the reports I saw this morning, he booked a room overlooking the event, he had multiple weapons, and set up cameras so he would know when the police were closing in on him. This was not someone who just "snapped", and suddenly picked up a gun and started shooting. He put a lot of planning into this.

24 posted on 10/02/2017 5:49:31 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Perseverando

Unless LE has been in contact with family, how does the family know that the dead guy is their family member and is in fact the perp, especially if the family had no clue the dead guy was a psycho?


25 posted on 10/02/2017 5:49:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: tomkat; nhwingut

I wonder if he already owned this FULLY AUTOMATIC weapon, which required registration, or if he acquired it right before the shooting spree.


26 posted on 10/02/2017 5:49:50 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: Perseverando

A normal guy who “just snaps” punches a wall and breaks his hand, or throws his laptop out the window, he doesn’t acquire full auto weapons, load up a dozen magazines, rent a hotel room in a tower overlooking a concert and unload on a crowd.


27 posted on 10/02/2017 5:50:14 AM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Perseverando

This had to be planned well in advance. As one local pointed out on Fox, those rooms for the festival dates were sold out months in advance.


28 posted on 10/02/2017 5:50:37 AM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Perseverando

Either he snapped or something big is being missed


29 posted on 10/02/2017 5:50:39 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: nhwingut
“This was preplanned. He didn’t “just snap.””

Good point.

30 posted on 10/02/2017 5:50:44 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: A_perfect_lady

Yes, because its inconceivable that he’s just a nut who snapped.


31 posted on 10/02/2017 5:50:50 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: cyclotic

But a Muslim who “just snaps”...


32 posted on 10/02/2017 5:50:53 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Perseverando

This article references something odd..........

“Paddock apparently was the manager of the apartment complex — which was set to be searched early Monday morning — FOX 5 News reported.”

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/02/stephen-paddock-suspected-las-vegas-gunman-stashed-weapons-in-room-police-say.html


33 posted on 10/02/2017 5:51:16 AM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: Perseverando

There were reports that the San Bernadino shooter was “converted” by his wife.


34 posted on 10/02/2017 5:51:48 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Perseverando

I say BS. He knew exactly who his brother was. I’m sure he’s a full on lefty himself (Eric) and is covering for him


35 posted on 10/02/2017 5:51:54 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: nhwingut

Agreed. Considering the concert right outside the hotel, I bet the rooms booked up quickly and he chose last night because of the event going on.

He didn’t just leave work and decide he was going to book a hotel room to shoot up a concert.


36 posted on 10/02/2017 5:52:03 AM PDT by JenB987
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To: Perseverando

Bullspt.

This act took weeks or longer to plan, decide acquire set and execute.

Multiple automatic or slide fire rifles, hundreds or thousands of rounds of ammunition, magazines, cameras, cases containers reservations timing and coordination is not the virtue of a person who “snapped”. A person who snaps offs his family, a few locals and then its over. This was a planned, probably conspired event that was deliberate and a political stamen on its face.

Why a country music festival? Hmmm, flag waving redneck country boys and girls wearing cowboy boots and mostly white non leftists types ya think?

There is little possibility regardless of what the media/government push us that this was a random, spur of the moment psychotic break by a lone idiot.

Don’t be a sheep= stay out of the sheep folds.


37 posted on 10/02/2017 5:52:09 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of and they are allowed to vote!War")
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To: A_perfect_lady
"This really is weird. He’s kind of old for Islam, and kind of Vegas for Bernie, and kind of blue-collar for Antifa, from what I can tell."

So was that little fat white leftist toad that attempted to massacre the republican softball team.

38 posted on 10/02/2017 5:52:30 AM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: Perseverando

and he was going to college to become a surgeon, too?


39 posted on 10/02/2017 5:52:48 AM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: MagnoliaB

I saw an article that said he lived in a retirement community


40 posted on 10/02/2017 5:52:59 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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