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Who is Stephen Paddock? Vegas Shooter's 'Psychopathic' Dad Was on FBI's Most Wanted List

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Stephen Craig Paddock, the 64-year-old man who police say killed at least 59 people and injured more than 500 others at a country music concert in Las Vegas, was a wealthy retiree and a high stakes gambler with no criminal history.

Paddock was found dead by officers in a hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Casino. Police say Paddock had as many as 23 guns, including rifles, with him. Some of his guns had scopes and he had knocked out two windows to create sniper's perches he used to rain bullets on the crowd of 22,000.

Authorities say he also put a camera inside the peephole of his hotel room to see down the hallway as he opened fire on the crowd of concertgoers.
  
Undersheriff Kevin McMahill told reporters Tuesday that Stephen Paddock also set up two cameras in the hallway outside his room at the Mandalay Bay casino-hotel so he could watch law enforcement or security approach.
  
He says Paddock fired on and off for nine to 11 minutes and unleashed a dozen or so volleys
 

The FBI is shedding some more light on Paddock's background, saying his father was a notorious bank robber who tried to run down an FBI agent with his car in Las Vegas in 1960. Benjamin Hoskins Paddock was on the agency's most wanted list after escaping from a federal prison in Texas in 1968.

Stephen Paddock was a teen when the FBI issued a "wanted" poster saying his father had been "diagnosed as psychopathic."

The suspect's brother, Eric Paddock, told CNN Monday his brother was an accountant who gambled large sums of money.

"He was a wealthy guy playing video poker," he said.

Eric also confirmed their father was a notorious bank robber who was once on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. Their father died a few years ago.

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Eric Paddock also said his brother had been married once but didn't know if he had any children. He last communicated with him over text, asking if their 90-year-old mother was okay after she lost power during Hurricane Irma.

Connection to ISIS?

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, saying Paddock was a soldier for the terror group who converted to Islam a few months ago. However, the group provided no evidence.

When asked if the massacre was a suspected "act of terrorism," Sheriff Jospeh Lombardo said "no."

"Not at this point," he said. "We believe it was a local individual. He resides here locally. I'm not at liberty to give you his place of residence yet, because it's an ongoing investigation, we don't know what his belief system was at this time. …Right now we believe he is the sole aggressor at this point and the scene is static.

Police have yet to find a motive for the attack.  

"I can't get into the mind of a psychopath at this point," Lombardo said.

A Lone Wolf

Authorities also believe Paddock acted alone but had identified his female companion, Marilou Danley, as a person of interest. Danley lived with Paddock in his single-family home in Sun City Mesquite, a retirement community along the Nevada-Arizona border.
 
Authorities said they don't believe she was involved and was out of the country at the time of the shooting but they wanted to speak to her when she returned.
 
Paddock bought the one-story, three-bedroom home about 80 miles north of Las Vegas in 2015 for about $370,000.

A preliminary review of police records does not indicate that authorities had any contact with him, but police are still investigating.

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