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highplainsdem

(49,038 posts)
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 08:58 AM Oct 2017

Las Vegas shooter's brother says family is 'dumbfounded' at massacre and have no idea of motive

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4940800/Las-Vegas-shooter-s-brother-says-family-dumbfounded.html

The brother of the Las Vegas shooter said that he was a normal guy who must have 'snapped' before carrying out the worst mass shooting in American history.

In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Eric Paddock said that 'something happened' to make his brother Stephen kill at least 50 people and injure 200.

Eric said that there was 'absolutely no indication he could do something like this' and said that Stephen had no political or religious affiliation.

He said: 'He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something'.

Speaking from his home in Orlando, Florida, Eric said: 'We know absolutely nothing, this is just, we are dumbfounded.

-snip-

Eric said that he and Stephen, 64, lived on different coasts - Stephen's last address was in Mesquite, Nevada - and that they did not speak that often.

He said that his mother was 'in shock' and struggling to cope with the news.

He said: 'Our family is OK, we're sitting in here in our house hoping that everyone doesn't attack us.

'My mother is 90 years old, lives down the street from me, we're just completely dumbfounded

You can imagine how this is affected her.

-snip-

'He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something, he was just a guy.

'He has no political affiliation, no religious affiliation, as far as we know. This wasn't a terror attack'.

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Las Vegas shooter's brother says family is 'dumbfounded' at massacre and have no idea of motive (Original Post) highplainsdem Oct 2017 OP
Feel awful for them, the victims and their families bearsfootball516 Oct 2017 #1
Me too. I always feel sorry for the families of these killers. LuckyCharms Oct 2017 #4
ABC: Eric Paddock said brother well known around casinos, had owned several pieces of Vegas property highplainsdem Oct 2017 #2
Sounds like a brain tumor. n/t yellerpup Oct 2017 #3
We just don't have enough info at this point. highplainsdem Oct 2017 #6
@KTNV Beth Fisher, citing police source, HAB911 Oct 2017 #5
yeah, he's been a gun nut for some time with that arsenol and ready for action. not snapped. flygal Oct 2017 #10
Just a normal guy.... lunasun Oct 2017 #13
Charles Whitman The Texas Tower had a brain tumor nt maryellen99 Oct 2017 #16
Most mass shooters don't have brain tumors. LisaL Oct 2017 #19
Excuse me??? atreides1 Oct 2017 #7
Exactly. Historic NY Oct 2017 #8
He was just speaking based on his own experience, his own knowledge of his brother. highplainsdem Oct 2017 #14
"He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something, he was just a guy." WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2017 #9
Just a guy with access to a lot of firepower. nt tblue37 Oct 2017 #11
The last people that you ever believe are the criminal's family Not Ruth Oct 2017 #12
I'd say. LisaL Oct 2017 #17
Sure as hell doesn't sound like "snapping" to me. LisaL Oct 2017 #15
Sorry but it was most definitely a terror attack. sinkingfeeling Oct 2017 #18
Professional terrorists are now envious for not thinking of this Not Ruth Oct 2017 #21
I wonder if this guy was part of the Bundy Standoff back in 2014 nt maryellen99 Oct 2017 #20

bearsfootball516

(6,377 posts)
1. Feel awful for them, the victims and their families
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:05 AM
Oct 2017

They'll never be able to escape the fact that he was their son/brother, etc.

LuckyCharms

(17,458 posts)
4. Me too. I always feel sorry for the families of these killers.
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:06 AM
Oct 2017

They are most likely innocent, yet they must carry the weight for wheat an idiot family member did.

highplainsdem

(49,038 posts)
2. ABC: Eric Paddock said brother well known around casinos, had owned several pieces of Vegas property
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:05 AM
Oct 2017

at one time.

HAB911

(8,914 posts)
5. @KTNV Beth Fisher, citing police source,
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:06 AM
Oct 2017

said shooter had 8 guns & 2 platforms set up to shoot from

methodical

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
13. Just a normal guy....
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:28 AM
Oct 2017

Also I have known someone with a brain tumor so that reply is not so normal either. Violence and excessive gun ownership Is not a symptom of brain tumors!!

LisaL

(44,974 posts)
19. Most mass shooters don't have brain tumors.
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:38 AM
Oct 2017

So there is no freaking point in speculating this one did and that was the reason, is there?

atreides1

(16,093 posts)
7. Excuse me???
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:16 AM
Oct 2017

"Eric said that he and Stephen, 64, lived on different coasts - Stephen's last address was in Mesquite, Nevada - and that they did not speak that often."


"Eric said that there was 'absolutely no indication he could do something like this' and said that Stephen had no political or religious affiliation."



If they didn't speak very often, then how does he know what his brother may have gotten involved in?

highplainsdem

(49,038 posts)
14. He was just speaking based on his own experience, his own knowledge of his brother.
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:32 AM
Oct 2017

He isn't pretending to know all the details.

I don't know about your family, but in my extended family, as well as lots of other families I've known, relatives often stay in touch occasionally, think they're keeping up with what's going on, and then discover they hadn't known about a relative's problems and affiliations until some crisis or emergency makes those problems more generally known.

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,436 posts)
9. "He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something, he was just a guy."
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:22 AM
Oct 2017

Welcome to toxic masculinity. You're soaking in it!

 

Not Ruth

(3,613 posts)
21. Professional terrorists are now envious for not thinking of this
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:45 AM
Oct 2017

Old, married white guy with local knowledge and no criminal record attacks 300,000 mostly white people in an open square, from a high, easily defended position and kill himself before he can be questioned. A casino regular who could have been waiting years for an opportunity like this.

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