45 Facts About Stephen Paddock

Stephen Craig Paddock was an American mass murderer who perpetrated the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.

Stephen Paddock killed himself in his hotel room following the shooting.

Stephen Paddock's motive remains officially undetermined, and the possible factors are the subject of speculation.

Stephen Paddock was a real-estate investor, property manager, accountant, private pilot and video poker gambler who lived in Mesquite, Nevada.

Stephen Paddock was born on April 9,1953, in Clinton, Iowa, where his family lived at the time.

Stephen Paddock was the oldest of four sons of Benjamin Paddock and Dolores Hudson.

Benjamin was a bank robber who was arrested in Arizona in 1960 when Stephen Paddock was seven years old.

Dolores proceeded to move her sons to the Sun Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles, where Stephen Paddock spent his remaining childhood and adolescence in a low-income household.

Stephen Paddock went on to graduate from California State University, Northridge in 1977, with a degree in business administration.

Stephen Paddock worked as a postal worker from 1975 to 1978.

Toward the end of the 1980s Stephen Paddock worked for three years as an internal auditor for a company that later merged into Lockheed Martin.

Stephen Paddock was known to have run a real-estate business with his brother Eric.

Stephen Paddock lived in the Greater Los Angeles Area and owned personal property in Panorama City, Cerritos, and North Hollywood from the 1970s to early 2000s.

Relatives said Stephen Paddock was worth at least million when he sold off the real-estate business.

Stephen Paddock was an avid gambler, and although the extent to which he profited from it is not clear, his reported gambling winnings might have been substantial.

Stephen Paddock was sometimes seen in high-limit rooms, but he was not well known among high-stakes gamblers in Las Vegas and was not considered a "whale" by the casinos.

Stephen Paddock usually gambled after dark and slept during the day; he disliked being out in the sun.

Stephen Paddock was married and divorced twice and had no children.

Stephen Paddock was first married from 1977 to 1979 and for the second time from 1985 to 1990, both marriages in Los Angeles County, California.

Stephen Paddock lived in Texas and California, and then in a retirement community in Melbourne, Florida, from 2013 to 2015.

Stephen Paddock lived in Mesquite with his girlfriend whom he had met several years before in Reno, Nevada.

Many Mesquite residents recalled only seeing him around town; those familiar with Stephen Paddock described him as someone who did not speak much and kept a low profile.

Stephen Paddock was conversant in gun laws and in defending his view of the Second Amendment.

In 2010, Stephen Paddock applied for and received a United States passport.

Stephen Paddock went on 20cruise ship voyages, visiting several foreign ports including ones in Spain, Italy, Greece, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates.

Stephen Paddock was accompanied by his girlfriend on nine of them.

Stephen Paddock had his pilot's license since at least 2004 and owned two small planes, one being a Cirrus SR20.

Stephen Paddock's only recorded interaction with law enforcement was a minor traffic citation years before the shooting, which he settled in court.

Stephen Paddock's girlfriend stated that he did not talk at length about politics and did not belong to any political organizations.

Stephen Paddock was reported to have filled prescriptions for the anti-anxiety drug Valium in 2013, in 2016, and finally again in June2017, the latter being four months before the shooting.

Stephen Paddock's autopsy revealed he was not under the influence of any psychoactive drugs or alcohol at the time of the shooting, though his urine did contain benzodiazepines.

Stephen Paddock purchased over 55firearms, the majority of them rifles, according to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Stephen Paddock's girlfriend noticed the increase of firearm-related purchases but believed his interest in guns was just a hobby.

Stephen Paddock bought her a surprise airline ticket and soon after wired her $100,000 to buy a house there.

Stephen Paddock was spotted in Las Vegas with another woman, reported by investigators to be a prostitute.

Two days prior to the shooting, Stephen Paddock was recorded by a home surveillance system driving alone to an area for target practice located near his home.

Stephen Paddock stayed in both in the days leading up to the shooting.

Stephen Paddock's arsenal included a large quantity of ammunition in special high-capacity magazines holding up to 100 cartridges each.

Audio recordings of the attack indicated Stephen Paddock used these stocks to fire at the crowd in rapid succession.

At 10:05pm, Stephen Paddock began firing hundreds of rounds in rapid succession at the crowd below.

Stephen Paddock initially started off with a few single gunshots before firing in prolonged bursts.

Stephen Paddock was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.

However, investigators clarified that while Stephen Paddock had "nefarious intent" with the material, he did not appear to have assembled an explosive device.

Stephen Paddock's remains were sent to Stanford University to receive a more extensive analysis of his brain.

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the shooting, saying that Stephen Paddock had converted to Islam six months prior to the terrorist attack, and had renamed himself Abu Abdul Barr al-Amriki, but United States law enforcement officials have given no evidence of a connection between Stephen Paddock and IS.