nep on Nostr: seems a lot of the people who knew him said he was fairly average, a lot were ...
seems a lot of the people who knew him said he was fairly average, a lot were shocked, but some weren't surprised. his brother and other family commented that they had no idea why he did this. he didn't have a criminal record, even traffic stops.
"Eric Paddock said he knew of five guns his brother kept in his safe but was shocked that a rapid-fire weapon was used in Sunday’s shooting. He said Stephen Paddock didn’t hunt and barely shot his guns, once taking Eric’s children on a skeet-shooting trip paid for by the casinos."
> "We know nothing. If you told me an asteroid fell it would mean the same to me. There's absolutely no sense, no reason he did this," said his brother Eric Paddock. "He's just a guy who played video poker and took cruises and ate burritos at Taco Bell. There's no political affiliation that we know of. There's no religious affiliation that we know of."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/10/02/las-vegas-gunman-liked-to-gamble-listened-to-country-music-lived-quiet-retired-life-before-massacre/ https://archive.is/TgkBC
> "We are in complete shock, bewilderment and horror. We have absolutely no idea how in the world Steve did this. Absolutely no concept," said one relative, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid hurting other relatives. "There was nothing secret or strange about him."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/10/02/las-vegas-gunman-liked-to-gamble-listened-to-country-music-lived-quiet-retired-life-before-massacre/ https://archive.is/TgkBC
> “We are completely dumbfounded,” said a younger brother, Eric Paddock, who broke into tears in front of his suburban Orlando, Fla., home. “We can’t understand what happened.”
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-shooter-what-we-know-20171002-story.html
> "Before Monday, Paddock had been a nonentity to local police. “We didn’t have prior run-ins with him, we didn’t have any traffic stops, we didn’t have any arrests of any kind,” Mesquite Police Officer Quinn Averett said. “It’s a newer home, a newer subdivision, a nice clean home, nothing out of the ordinary.”
> “He was always normal,” said Donald Judy, a former next-door neighbor who said he was struggling to reconcile the friendly conversations about real estate and family with carnage carried out from a hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
> Paddock’s former brother-in-law, Scott Brunoehler, recalled the gunman in the 1970s and 1980s as a smart, fun-loving person who enjoyed entertaining on his boat at Castaic Lake and Buena Vista Lake in Kern County.
>
> “He seemed like a normal, good guy. I don’t remember anything bad back then at all,” said Brunoehler, whose sister, Sharon, married Paddock in 1977. "I'm still in shock."
> For nearly a decade, he owned an apartment complex in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite. Tenant Richard Gehring said Paddock improved the Texas property by checking applicants’ credit and quickly evicting those who didn’t pay.
>
> “Some of the rougher people left,” said Gehring, a roadway engineer.
>
As he watched television coverage Monday, Gehring said it seemed impossible that the gunman was his mild mannered landlord.
>
> “He was just a nice guy, and that was it,” Gehring said. “There’s nothing really that sets him out from anybody else.”
> Donald Judy’s wife, Sharon, who lived next door to Paddock in Florida, said he described himself as a world traveler and "professional gambler by trade" and said he once showed her a picture of himself winning a $20,000 slot-machine jackpot.
"He was friendly all the time," she said.
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-shooter-what-we-know-20171002-story.html https://archive.is/JoLye
> "Steve took care of the people he loved. He helped make me and my family wealthy. He's the reason I was able to retire. This is the Steve we know, we knew. The people he loved and took care of," Eric Paddock said. He also described his brother as "intelligent" and "successful."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/victims-of-las-vegas-shooting-list-names-latest-update/ https://archive.is/GCOaD
> He said he couldn't understand what drove his brother to fire on thousands of concertgoers through two windows on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.
>
> Eric Paddock said that his brother was not insane or crazy and described him as a highly "intelligent" and "successful" person.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-vegas-shooter-brother-speaks-again/ https://archive.is/FWKtQ
> Paddock’s relatives and neighbors said they didn’t know him to be much of a gun owner
> [...]
> Eric Paddock told reporters on Monday that his brother had no religious or political affiliations. “My heart is destroyed, for all these people, but I can’t tell you why Steve did what he did,” he said.
>
> “It never occurred to me in any way whatsoever that he was planning violence against anyone,” Danley said in her statement on Wednesday.
https://www.thewrap.com/las-vegas-shooter-everything-know-stephen-paddock/ https://archive.is/CjH33
> "It never occurred to me in any way whatsoever that he was planning violence against anyone," Danley said in the statement.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/05/us/las-vegas-shooting-investigation/index.html https://archive.is/PTWOo
"Eric Paddock said he knew of five guns his brother kept in his safe but was shocked that a rapid-fire weapon was used in Sunday’s shooting. He said Stephen Paddock didn’t hunt and barely shot his guns, once taking Eric’s children on a skeet-shooting trip paid for by the casinos."
> "We know nothing. If you told me an asteroid fell it would mean the same to me. There's absolutely no sense, no reason he did this," said his brother Eric Paddock. "He's just a guy who played video poker and took cruises and ate burritos at Taco Bell. There's no political affiliation that we know of. There's no religious affiliation that we know of."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/10/02/las-vegas-gunman-liked-to-gamble-listened-to-country-music-lived-quiet-retired-life-before-massacre/ https://archive.is/TgkBC
> "We are in complete shock, bewilderment and horror. We have absolutely no idea how in the world Steve did this. Absolutely no concept," said one relative, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid hurting other relatives. "There was nothing secret or strange about him."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/10/02/las-vegas-gunman-liked-to-gamble-listened-to-country-music-lived-quiet-retired-life-before-massacre/ https://archive.is/TgkBC
> “We are completely dumbfounded,” said a younger brother, Eric Paddock, who broke into tears in front of his suburban Orlando, Fla., home. “We can’t understand what happened.”
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-shooter-what-we-know-20171002-story.html
> "Before Monday, Paddock had been a nonentity to local police. “We didn’t have prior run-ins with him, we didn’t have any traffic stops, we didn’t have any arrests of any kind,” Mesquite Police Officer Quinn Averett said. “It’s a newer home, a newer subdivision, a nice clean home, nothing out of the ordinary.”
> “He was always normal,” said Donald Judy, a former next-door neighbor who said he was struggling to reconcile the friendly conversations about real estate and family with carnage carried out from a hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
> Paddock’s former brother-in-law, Scott Brunoehler, recalled the gunman in the 1970s and 1980s as a smart, fun-loving person who enjoyed entertaining on his boat at Castaic Lake and Buena Vista Lake in Kern County.
>
> “He seemed like a normal, good guy. I don’t remember anything bad back then at all,” said Brunoehler, whose sister, Sharon, married Paddock in 1977. "I'm still in shock."
> For nearly a decade, he owned an apartment complex in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite. Tenant Richard Gehring said Paddock improved the Texas property by checking applicants’ credit and quickly evicting those who didn’t pay.
>
> “Some of the rougher people left,” said Gehring, a roadway engineer.
>
As he watched television coverage Monday, Gehring said it seemed impossible that the gunman was his mild mannered landlord.
>
> “He was just a nice guy, and that was it,” Gehring said. “There’s nothing really that sets him out from anybody else.”
> Donald Judy’s wife, Sharon, who lived next door to Paddock in Florida, said he described himself as a world traveler and "professional gambler by trade" and said he once showed her a picture of himself winning a $20,000 slot-machine jackpot.
"He was friendly all the time," she said.
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-shooter-what-we-know-20171002-story.html https://archive.is/JoLye
> "Steve took care of the people he loved. He helped make me and my family wealthy. He's the reason I was able to retire. This is the Steve we know, we knew. The people he loved and took care of," Eric Paddock said. He also described his brother as "intelligent" and "successful."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/victims-of-las-vegas-shooting-list-names-latest-update/ https://archive.is/GCOaD
> He said he couldn't understand what drove his brother to fire on thousands of concertgoers through two windows on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.
>
> Eric Paddock said that his brother was not insane or crazy and described him as a highly "intelligent" and "successful" person.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-vegas-shooter-brother-speaks-again/ https://archive.is/FWKtQ
> Paddock’s relatives and neighbors said they didn’t know him to be much of a gun owner
> [...]
> Eric Paddock told reporters on Monday that his brother had no religious or political affiliations. “My heart is destroyed, for all these people, but I can’t tell you why Steve did what he did,” he said.
>
> “It never occurred to me in any way whatsoever that he was planning violence against anyone,” Danley said in her statement on Wednesday.
https://www.thewrap.com/las-vegas-shooter-everything-know-stephen-paddock/ https://archive.is/CjH33
> "It never occurred to me in any way whatsoever that he was planning violence against anyone," Danley said in the statement.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/05/us/las-vegas-shooting-investigation/index.html https://archive.is/PTWOo