Las Vegas shooting: gunman was on losing streak and possibly bipolar, police say

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Las Vegas shooting: gunman was on losing streak and possibly bipolar, police say

Associated Press in Las Vegas
Sun 21 Jan 2018 02.43 GMT

After three months of investigation, police have learned that Stephen Paddock, who carried out the Las Vegas shooting in October, was a high-stakes gambler on a losing streak, obsessed with cleanliness, possibly bipolar and was having difficulties with his live-in girlfriend.

But hundreds of interviews and thousands of pieces of evidence have not answered the key question: why did Paddock open fire from a high-rise hotel suite, killing 58 people and injuring more than 800 in the deadliest shooting in modern US history?

Clark County sheriff Joe Lombardo released a preliminary report on Friday on the 1 October attack on an outdoor concert staged from a room at the Mandalay Bay casino-hotel. He said he did not expect criminal charges to be filed against Paddock’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley, who had been named as the only person of interest in the case.

Investigators believe Paddock acted alone. He did not leave a suicide note or manifesto before he was found dead in the room.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/20/las-vegas-shooting-police-report-gunman-motive-mystery-stephen-paddock

[lunasun]

1. Child pornography on his laptop HmmmHis brother was arrested for that after his death I think

"...phones were found inside his hotel suite. On one of the computers, investigators found hundreds of photos of child pornography. The same computer was used to search for the height of the Mandalay Bay".....

[shenmue]

2. ...

[mr_lebowski]

3. Roughly, are we talking pics of 7 year olds ... or 17 year olds? Any idea?

To my thinking there's a world of difference, but perhaps that particular distinction is immaterial in terms of whatever point it is that you were ... making, I guess?

[lunasun]

4. Just that he had multiple issues going on . The case on his brother started before the shooting

http://www.lapdonline.org/newsroom/news_view/63073
Losing streak , OCD, bipolar girlfriend trouble & perhaps knew the lapd were on to his brother who gave him the child porn and could lead to him .

[k8conant]

5. ...and probably MALE.