Police still do not know if Stephen Paddock had an accomplice, why he possessed explosives or why he targeted the route 91 Harvest festival Eric Paddock via APSomething had changed in Stephen Paddock’s life. The Las Vegas gunman, a 64-year-old retired accountant, had always been an inscrutable, private person with modest tastes, even as he amassed a fortune estimated at several million dollars through property deals and methodical gambling, which earned him $5 million in 2015 alone. Marilou Danley knew him as a “kind, caring, quiet man” but in recent months she had grown concerned about her boyfriend’s mental health, she told FBI investigators this week. “She said he would lie in bed just moaning and screaming, ‘Oh, my God,’” a former agent who had been briefed on the interview told NBC News. In June Paddock was prescribed the anti-anxiety drug Valium by a doctor in Henderson, just outside Las Vegas.

Source: The Times October 06, 2017 23:26 UTC