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| Sheriff: Las Vegas shooter had lost money, been depressed |
| 2017-11-04 |
| [Ynet] The man who killed 58 people at a country music festival in Las Vegas last month had been depressed after losing a significant amount of money in the past two years and that may have been a "determining factor" in the worst mass shooting in modern US history, the city's sheriff said. Gunman Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old high-stakes gambler and real estate investor, had lost a "significant amount of wealth" since September 2015, which led to "bouts of depression," Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said in an interview this week with Las Vegas news station KLAS-TV. "This individual was status-driven, based on how he liked to be recognized in the casino environment and how he liked to be recognized by his friends and family," Lombardo said. "So, obviously, that was starting to decline in the short period of time, and that may have had a determining effect on why he did what he did." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #11 Still don't know if any of the bullets that killed people in Las Vegas came from guns Paddock fired. Probably never will. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-11-04 16:38 |
| #10 #8 What's the difference between losing more and laundering more? If you are doing both, you are in debt to bad people. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-11-04 16:30 |
| #9 Gambling losses result in year-long firearms spending spree? I thought the guy was a gun collector: http://time.com/money/4969462/las-vegas-shooter-stephen-paddock-gambler-real-estate-guns/ Altogether, Paddock owned over 50 guns. He purchased at least 33 guns, the vast majority of which were rifles, in the 12 months before the mass shooting, an ATF official told CBS News. As to why he did what he did, note that this guy wasn't a run-of-the-mill individual. He did everything differently. How many people switch careers like he did? How many make fortunes in real estate, then decide to become professional gamblers? The odds are that when he snapped, he also did it his way. Lots of times, the only explanation is people go down blind alleys, the same way that some people become blind drunks or dope fiends. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2017-11-04 15:21 |
| #8 What's the difference between losing more and laundering more? |
| Posted by: Publius Punter 2017-11-04 14:24 |
| #7 Calling it BS. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2017-11-04 12:42 |
| #6 After a month there is still much that doesn't make sense about this mass shooting. A little transparency and honesty could quell much of the BS surrounding this shooting. Right now it still stinks. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-11-04 12:27 |
| #5 I think Cluseau is on to something: ban gambling losses |
| Posted by: Regular joe 2017-11-04 12:11 |
| #4 But wait. In October he was a mad geniusâ„¢ at gambling, winning millions |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-11-04 10:25 |
| #3 Smell the BS |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2017-11-04 09:31 |
| #2 That's why mass shooting are as frequent in Vegas as dailies are in Chicago. Or NOT. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-11-04 08:54 |
| #1 Gambling losses result in year-long firearms spending spree? How about a restful nap Sheriff Lombardo, then we'll have another go at it. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-11-04 01:59 |