Paddock’s doctor offered him antidepressants, but told investigators that Paddock would only accept a prescription for anxiety medication. after the shooting and told authorities that Paddock had complained that he was sick and that doctors told him he had a “chemical imbalance” and could not cure him.ĭanley, who is Catholic, told investigators that Paddock often told her, “Your God doesn’t love me.”Ī Reno car salesman told police that in the months before the shooting Paddock told him he was depressed and had relationship troubles.

Danley, a former casino worker in Reno, returned to the U.S. He sent his girlfriend, Marilou Danley, to visit her family in the Philippines two weeks before the attack and wired her $150,000 while she was there. He spent more than $1.5 million in the two years before the shooting and distanced himself from his girlfriend and family. Police characterized him as a loner with no religious or political affiliations who began stockpiling weapons about a year before the attack. His ex-wife told investigators that he grew up with a single mom in a financially unstable home and he felt a need to be self-reliant. His younger brother, Eric Paddock, called him the “king of micro-aggression” - narcissistic, detail-oriented and maybe bored enough with life to plan an attack that would make him famous. He also held a private pilot’s license and liked to gamble tens of thousands of dollars at a time playing video poker. Paddock was a retired postal service worker, accountant and real estate investor who owned rental properties and homes in Reno and in a retirement community more than an hour’s drive from Las Vegas. “How could this have happened and how could we have let this happen?”

“How did he get the chance to do it? That’s what upsets me the most,” the Las Vegas woman said.

Kimberly King, who along with her husband was hurt at the concert, said Paddock was “just a sick person.” She doesn’t care why he carried out the attack. He did not leave a manifesto or suicide note, and federal agents believe he had planned to fatally shoot himself after the attack, according to the report. The gunman was not directed or inspired by any group and was not seeking to further any agenda.

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