Las Vegas mass shooting, updated as of this hour

Patrick Benjamin Paddock - violent bank robber & father of Las Vegas shooter.
The father of the suspect in a deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas on Sunday night was a bank robber who escaped from prison and wound up on the FBI's most-wanted list, the suspect's brother reportedly said.
In an interview with the news media on Monday, the brother, Bruce Paddock, said their father was Patrick Benjamin Paddock, NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander tweeted. The father went by the alias Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, according to accounts from the time.
Around 1960, the older Paddock, then said to be 34, was accused of robbing at least three banks in Phoenix, according to archival newspaper accounts. He allegedly stole more than $20,000, the equivalent of around $165,000 today. In 1960, FBI agents reportedly arrested him in Las Vegas after a bank employee gave police information about the getaway car. He reportedly appeared in a lineup before bank employees and was later sentenced to 20 years in prison.
According to[/a] a newspaper account. Under his alias, he appeared on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. A "wanted" notice from 1969 described him as having a scar above his right eyebrow and as an "avid bridge player." The notice also said that he had been "diagnosed as psychopathic," and that he might be suicidal and "should be considered armed and very dangerous." The notice is signed by J. Edgar Hoover, the famous FBI director from that era. Life magazine published his "wanted" picture. The New York Timesmentioned him, too, saying he also went by the aliases "Big Daddy" and "Old Baldy." In 1971, an FBI agent described Paddock, then on the run, to theTucson Daily News as "a glib, smooth-talking man who is egotistical and arrogant."


Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers patrol after a mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas. A gunman, suspected to be a man named Stephen Paddock, opened fire, leaving at least 58 people dead.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers patrol after a mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas. A gunman, suspected to be a man named Stephen Paddock, opened fire, leaving at least 58 people dead.
Ethan Miller/Getty
Eugene Register-Guardreported at the time. He was reportedly then the manager of a bingo parlor in the Eugene, Oregon, area and living under the name Bruce Werner Ericksen. It was not immediately clear what happened after that arrest. Public records indicate that he died in 1998.
Newsweek could not immediately verify the reported claim by Bruce Paddock." Newsweek could not immediately verify the reported claim by Bruce Paddock.
Stephen Paddock, 64, who the police said is now deceased, is suspected of committing the shooting in Las Vegas late Sunday that left at least 58 dead and at least 515 injured. From the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, he is believed to have fired a gun or guns at a crowd that had gathered for a country music concert.

 

They found some stuff in his car also.We may not know the motive for months.Investigators will need to sift thru all his text messages emails phone calls social media ect.It sounded like he had a pretty good life.Real nice home,money normal type of guy.This senseless crime has baffled many because this killer doesn't fit the profile of a crazy man.

 

Intelligence reports are coming in and antifa is taking the credit.
They're bragging about it in their private groups.

 

They hate Trump; so wonder who they voted for.....lol.

 

That was my initial instinct but I hesitated to mention it until I got more information. Those people like to battle with clubs and baseball bats.

 

^^^^lol what a bunch of fruitcakes. Trump supporters support genocide of minorities? So that makes it ok to slaughter innocent whiteys? I just can't wrap my head around how many stupid people there are on this planet.

 

AMAZING....WOW...

White guy kills (terrorizes) a group of Americans having a good time, and the first thoughts are "he prolly has a tumor"

LMAO.

Label him by correctly by his desired effect: A white terrorist. Period.

 

Because everyone should have their voice heard and treated with respect and dignity!

 

Antifa thinks you should only have your voice heard if your voice matches what they want you to say

 

Every American (Who swears allegiance to the flag or not)....is Antifa

Whether you like it or not. Your grandparents fought the NAZI's & Fascists in WWII and guess which side was the USA? The side of anti-nazi & anti-fascists

So as much as you may want to have disdain to Antifa, you have the blood of Antifa's ....LOL