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| Las Vegas police name suspect in deadly attack | |
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| Police have named Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old from Mesquite, Nevada, as the gunman who opened fire on a country music concert in Las Vegas, killing at least 50 people. | Police have named Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old from Mesquite, Nevada, as the gunman who opened fire on a country music concert in Las Vegas, killing at least 50 people. |
| Paddock killed himself before police could reach him, said Sheriff Joe Lombardo. He had perpetrated the worst mass shooting in contemporary American history. | Paddock killed himself before police could reach him, said Sheriff Joe Lombardo. He had perpetrated the worst mass shooting in contemporary American history. |
| Paddock was a resident of a retirement and golf community of about 20,000 people about 80 miles north of Las Vegas and near the Arizona state line, a police spokesman confirmed. | Paddock was a resident of a retirement and golf community of about 20,000 people about 80 miles north of Las Vegas and near the Arizona state line, a police spokesman confirmed. |
| “We don’t have a lot on Mr Paddock,” a Mesquite police spokesman, Quinn Averett, said. Mesquite PD records held no report of any contact with Paddock, Averett said: no calls for service, no arrests, not even a record of a traffic stop. | “We don’t have a lot on Mr Paddock,” a Mesquite police spokesman, Quinn Averett, said. Mesquite PD records held no report of any contact with Paddock, Averett said: no calls for service, no arrests, not even a record of a traffic stop. |
| Mesquite is just minutes away from Bunkerville, Nevada, the site in 2014 of an armed standoff at the Bundy ranch between federal agents and a family and the citizen militia members who came to support them. | Mesquite is just minutes away from Bunkerville, Nevada, the site in 2014 of an armed standoff at the Bundy ranch between federal agents and a family and the citizen militia members who came to support them. |
| Mesquite typically sees about one murder a year, Averett said. | Mesquite typically sees about one murder a year, Averett said. |
| Heavily armed police were seen searching Paddock’s home early on Monday morning. Mesquite’s police chief, Troy Tanner, said officers surrounded and entered the the one-story, three-bedroom home where Paddock lived with 62-year-old Marilou Danley. | Heavily armed police were seen searching Paddock’s home early on Monday morning. Mesquite’s police chief, Troy Tanner, said officers surrounded and entered the the one-story, three-bedroom home where Paddock lived with 62-year-old Marilou Danley. |
| Danley was not at the house, and police saw “no movement” inside before serving a search warrant at the ranch-style home in the Sun City Mesquite retirement community. | Danley was not at the house, and police saw “no movement” inside before serving a search warrant at the ranch-style home in the Sun City Mesquite retirement community. |
| Early on Monday, Las Vegas police cleared Danley of any involvement. “Marilou Danley is no longer being sought out as a person of interest,” the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement to CNN. | Early on Monday, Las Vegas police cleared Danley of any involvement. “Marilou Danley is no longer being sought out as a person of interest,” the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement to CNN. |
| A photo of the residence taken by an ABC correspondent after police entered the home showed the metal garage door crumpled in the driveway. Tanner said detectives from Las Vegas and North Las Vegas were at the scene. | A photo of the residence taken by an ABC correspondent after police entered the home showed the metal garage door crumpled in the driveway. Tanner said detectives from Las Vegas and North Las Vegas were at the scene. |
| Public records listed previous addresses for Stephen Paddock in Texas and California, as well as a 2010 license to hunt and fish in Alaska. Paddock lived in central Florida as recently as 2015, according to media outlets in the state. | Public records listed previous addresses for Stephen Paddock in Texas and California, as well as a 2010 license to hunt and fish in Alaska. Paddock lived in central Florida as recently as 2015, according to media outlets in the state. |
| Florida Today spoke to residents of Heritage Isle retirement community in Viera, where records show Paddock owned a two-bedroom house from 2013 until 2015. Mick Anderson, who bought the house from Paddock, said he never met or spoke with him. | Florida Today spoke to residents of Heritage Isle retirement community in Viera, where records show Paddock owned a two-bedroom house from 2013 until 2015. Mick Anderson, who bought the house from Paddock, said he never met or spoke with him. |
| “It was all done through my realtor and his realtor,” Anderson told the newspaper. “The only thing I can tell you is that the documents were regularly late.” | “It was all done through my realtor and his realtor,” Anderson told the newspaper. “The only thing I can tell you is that the documents were regularly late.” |
| Next-door neighbors Don and Sharon Judy said they saw Paddock and his girlfriend only rarely during the two years he owned the property. | Next-door neighbors Don and Sharon Judy said they saw Paddock and his girlfriend only rarely during the two years he owned the property. |
| Eric Paddock, a man identified by several news outlets as the suspect’s brother, said the family was “dumbstruck” by news of the mass killing. | Eric Paddock, a man identified by several news outlets as the suspect’s brother, said the family was “dumbstruck” by news of the mass killing. |
| “We are completely dumbfounded. We can’t understand what happened,” he told the Orlando Sentinel. The newspaper reported that Eric Paddock, who lives in the central Florida city, had given a statement to police. | “We are completely dumbfounded. We can’t understand what happened,” he told the Orlando Sentinel. The newspaper reported that Eric Paddock, who lives in the central Florida city, had given a statement to police. |
| Speaking to a CBS reporter, Eric Paddock described the suspect as “not an avid gun guy at all.” | Speaking to a CBS reporter, Eric Paddock described the suspect as “not an avid gun guy at all.” |
| “The fact that he had those kinds of weapons is just, where the hell did he get automatic weapons?” he continued. “He has no military background or anything like that…He’s a guy who lived in a house in Mesquite, drove down and gambled in Las Vegas.” | “The fact that he had those kinds of weapons is just, where the hell did he get automatic weapons?” he continued. “He has no military background or anything like that…He’s a guy who lived in a house in Mesquite, drove down and gambled in Las Vegas.” |