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Las Vegas shooting: Stephen Paddock 'sent girlfriend abroad' before going on rampage | Las Vegas shooting: Stephen Paddock 'sent girlfriend abroad' before going on rampage |
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The Las Vegas gunman sent his girlfriend abroad so she could not interfere with his deadly rampage, it has been claimed. | The Las Vegas gunman sent his girlfriend abroad so she could not interfere with his deadly rampage, it has been claimed. |
Marilou Danley, 62, was in the Philippines for some weeks before Stephen Paddock carried out the mass murder of 59 people on the Las Vegas Strip. | Marilou Danley, 62, was in the Philippines for some weeks before Stephen Paddock carried out the mass murder of 59 people on the Las Vegas Strip. |
In an interview with Australia's Channel 7 TV network, Ms Danley's sisters said they were surprised to learn she had travelled to the Philippines. | In an interview with Australia's Channel 7 TV network, Ms Danley's sisters said they were surprised to learn she had travelled to the Philippines. |
One said: "I know that she don't know anything [about the killings]." Her sister is "a good person" who would have tried to stop Paddock, she said. | |
Another of the sisters, who live near Brisbane, Queensland, said they believed Ms Danley knew Paddock had guns, but not as many as he had. | |
Ms Danley is now back in the US and investigators hope she will answer their questions about her partner's massacre of concert-goers on Monday. | |
Police had called her a "person of interest" but she is not thought to be under arrest. | |
Investigators are trying to discover why Paddock transferred $100,000 (£75,000) to the Philippines in the days before the massacre. | |
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