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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4940800/Las-Vegas-shooter-s-brother-says-family-dumbfounded.htmlIn 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.
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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.
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'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'.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)They'll never be able to escape the fact that he was their son/brother, etc.
LuckyCharms
(17,458 posts)They are most likely innocent, yet they must carry the weight for wheat an idiot family member did.
highplainsdem
(49,038 posts)at one time.
yellerpup
(12,254 posts)highplainsdem
(49,038 posts)HAB911
(8,914 posts)said shooter had 8 guns & 2 platforms set up to shoot from
methodical
flygal
(3,231 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)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!!
maryellen99
(3,789 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)So there is no freaking point in speculating this one did and that was the reason, is there?
atreides1
(16,093 posts)"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?
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)highplainsdem
(49,038 posts)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)Welcome to toxic masculinity. You're soaking in it!
tblue37
(65,488 posts)Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)They consistently are wrong
LisaL
(44,974 posts)Sounds like the guy was well prepared.
sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)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.