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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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To: A_perfect_lady

Perhaps parallels to OKC Bomber Timothy McVeigh. Mind-altered to believe some purpose in mass murder. Tragic. Investigate his every move and contact.


41 posted on 10/02/2017 5:53:03 AM PDT by Broker (Sept. 11.. Never Forget)
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To: Fresh Wind

...Is just normal


42 posted on 10/02/2017 5:53:23 AM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Perseverando
Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too


43 posted on 10/02/2017 5:53:57 AM PDT by 11th_VA (Kudos to President Trump for denouncing ALL violence)
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To: Perseverando

This is playing out exactly like one of the books by Matt Bracken.

I admonish all free purse to buy and read them.


44 posted on 10/02/2017 5:53:59 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Manly Warrior

It could just be that he knew it was a target rich environment. Country music fans run the gamut these days. A lot of it isn’t even “country music”. It’s more like “pop music”, one level above boy bands. .


45 posted on 10/02/2017 5:54:43 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: nhwingut

found this on youtube,,,some really scary moments...people yelling “firecrackers” as gun shots ring out...last two minutes tough to watch- people using medical barricades as makeshift stretches...young girl evidently lay dead on barricade..

LAS VEGAS SHOOTING HORRIFYING FOOTAGE CAUGHT ON CAMERA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpsqirFRdTo


46 posted on 10/02/2017 5:54:47 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Perseverando

Hmm.


47 posted on 10/02/2017 5:54:55 AM PDT by redgolum
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To: Perseverando

Full auto weapons cost in the 10s of thousands. Take a long time to get. Unless he stole it (them) or already had them, this was not a spur of the moment attack.


48 posted on 10/02/2017 5:54:56 AM PDT by umgud
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To: Dusty Road

Is that a tat or perhaps a scar? Trach maybe?


49 posted on 10/02/2017 5:55:24 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: Perseverando

He was playing solitaire and turned over the red queen.


50 posted on 10/02/2017 5:55:26 AM PDT by I-ambush (If we make it, we'll all sit back and laugh, but I fear tomorrow I'll be crying)
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To: All
OAN now reporting over 400 injured and blood donors are needed.
51 posted on 10/02/2017 5:55:26 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Space for rent.)
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To: nuconvert

This definitely showed some skill. I know everyone thinks automatic weapons are easy, but...


52 posted on 10/02/2017 5:55:46 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: bigdaddy45

No, I know it happens. But it always strikes me as weird, because there’s no goal when a nut does this. No goal I understand, anyway. Political goals I understand. Just wanting to watch people scream and panic and die, I don’t understand.


53 posted on 10/02/2017 5:55:57 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: fwdude

I know, right? Just a mild-mannered, non-political, non-religious, non-violent, non...... anything. No social media, no voter records, no affiliation with anybody or anything what so ever. “Just a guy in the neighborhood” kinda guy.

I know TONS of people like that..... /sarc


54 posted on 10/02/2017 5:56:10 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: spacejunkie2001

Covering for him? Hell, his brother probably helped him plan the whole thing too. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve been at some of those Antifa riots. I’m scanning the video of Hillary’s aborted “victory” party on the night of the election right now to see if they were there along with the rest of the losers who were sobbing.


55 posted on 10/02/2017 5:56:31 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Perseverando
Pull quotes regarding the brother:

Eric said that he and Stephen, 64, lived on different coasts - Stephen's last address was in Mesquite, Nevada - and that they did not speak that often.

'He's my brother, we don't have a very close relationship but we talk occasionally. There's no rhyme or reason here, it makes no sense'.

Eric said that they were hoping that the police do not shoot dead his brother's girlfriend Marilou Danley, 62, who is wanted by the FBI and was living with Stephen in Mesquite.

And this quote, which I find interesting giving the previous ones: He said: 'She has nothing to do with this, at least from my perspective.

Hold on there, Eric, if you two lived on different coasts, you don't have a close relationship with your brother, you don't speak that often (when's the last time you spoke with him? Has it been months? Years?), what's with this "She has nothing to do with this, at least from my perspective"?

56 posted on 10/02/2017 5:56:36 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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To: Perseverando
If I were in that guy's shoes I would not be saying jack.

Curious that he is saying something, honestly. Is he trying to cover for someone?

57 posted on 10/02/2017 5:57:04 AM PDT by OKSooner
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To: Perseverando
Daily Mail describes "companion" Marilou Danley as being "of Indonesian origin". Other news sources say she is no longer a person of interest.
58 posted on 10/02/2017 5:57:07 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Perseverando

If you want to kill a lot of trump supporters often your efforts would be stymied because there’s a secret service and cops all over the place.

what if you wanted to avoid all that security but hit people who are likely supporting Donald Trump..?

I submit it would be an event like this.

My guess is he’s an inveterate, seething hater of Donald Trump.


59 posted on 10/02/2017 5:57:17 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: AppyPappy

At a presser right now they said he wasn’t known to police so I don’t know what the place would be searched for.


60 posted on 10/02/2017 5:57:24 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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