At the disposal of journalists of CNN turned out to be 97-page court records for Las Vegas arrow Stephen Paddock. The document was written in October 2013, when the Paddock has filed a civil suit against a hotel, where he slipped and fell on the stairs.
According to the report, the future killer was led primarily nocturnal: during the day he slept, and at night played in the casino. He could lose more than a million dollars, but went on gambling establishments in the greased pants and flip-flops. Paddock also had a habit of coming to the gaming rooms with their drinks so as not to tip the waiters.
In turn, publishing the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that in June, the doctor prescribed the Paddock of a sedative drug valium could cause aggression in a patient.
Earlier, on 9 October, The Sun published an interview with a prostitute whose services availed Paddock. According to 27-year-old woman, he has repeatedly fantasized about the violent rape and embodied her dreams. “When I first met Steven, I was trying to recover after a relationship with bullied me man, I didn’t have anything but clothes on me. It seemed that he wanted to help. We went to the casino, and he played for hours and drank. But when he drove, we returned to the room, we were very aggressive, violent sex”, — said the woman, who asked not to be named.
2 Oct Paddock opened fire from automatic weapons by members of the festival of country music, being on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, and then killed himself. He killed 59 people, injured more than 500. In the room Paddock was found 23 weapons, including 19 guns, thousands of rounds, and at his home in Mesquite, police found explosives and its components. The investigation could not establish the motive of the offense.