Stephen Paddock lived in a community of senior citizens in the small town of Mesquite, north-east of Las Vegas.
He reportedly lived with a woman called Marilou Danley who is out of the country in Japan, and does not appear to be involved.
The last time Eric Paddock heard from his brother, Stephen Paddock had texted to find out how their 90-year-old mother was doing.
It was mid-September and Hurricane Irma had cut power in the Orlando, Florida, neighborhood where she lived. Stephen Paddock, who lived in Nevada, followed up with a call to their mother. Later, he sent her a walker to help her get around, Eric Paddock said.
About two weeks after the text, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock would be dead of a self-inflicted gun shot after police say he opened fire on a country music festival in Las Vegas.
Stephen Paddock killed himself in a Las Vegas hotel room, police say.
Stephen Paddock killed himself in a Las Vegas hotel room, police say.
The news doesn't square with Eric Paddock's image of his older brother, he told reporters Monday -- a poker-playing accountant with no apparent political or religious affiliation, "as far as I know," he hastened to add.
To his brother, Stephen was "just a guy," an "army of one" with no known children despite a string of relationships. Someone you might see nursing a drink alone at a bar. Someone who went on cruises and played $100-a-hand video poker. Someone who sent boxes of cookies to his mother.
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"There's absolutely no way I could conceive that my brother would shoot a bunch of people that he didn't know," Eric Paddock said outside his home Monday, shaking his head as he fumbled for words.
"Something just incredibly wrong happened to my brother."
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