Shooter Stephen Paddock (above in his driver’s license photograph) had no criminal record but his younger brother Bruce has a long rap sheet
The estranged brother of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock is currently wanted by police, it has been revealed.
Bruce Paddock, Stephen’s younger brother, is being sought by officers after he skipped bail over a vandalism charge.
Bruce, who has a long criminal history including arrests for arson, theft, and selling marijuana, entered a plea of no contest to the vandalism charge in 2014 and was given 15 hours of community service.
But he kept trying to get the charge reduced, and when he failed to show for a hearing in 2016 he was hit with a bench warrant, according to TMZ.
The site previously reported that Bruce, who expressed shock over his brother’s actions, has a long rap sheet including four felony arrests.
The charges are for a range of alleged crimes including the sale of marijuana, theft and burglary.
TMZ claims he also has been arrested for arson, criminal threats and driving on a suspended license.
In 1992, Bruce filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy claim in Los Angeles County Court. In the same year, he was ordered to pay $1,080 to another man in a civil dispute.
It is not clear whether his older brother Stephen had yet begun making the ‘millions’ Bruce described in interviews after Sunday’s shooting.
Information about Stephen’s life is slowly pouring in in the aftermath of his massacre.
He once worked for the IRS and the postal service and had dozens of homes in various states.
Bruce appears to take more closely after the men’s father, the late bank robber Benjamin ‘Big Daddy’ Paddock who was on the FBI’s most wanted list for breaking out of prison in the 1960s. He died in the late 80s
Eric Paddock, the third brother, lives a quiet life in Florida. He broke down outside his home on Tuesday as he told reporters he had no idea what drove Stephen to commit mass murder
In recent years he appears to have developed a gambling obsession, blowing $10,000-a-day on video poker at times.
This is how he is suspected to have met his live-in girlfriend Marilou Danley, 62, who was flown back from the Philippines to the US on Wednesday to face questioning from the FBI.
Paddock’s other brother Eric, who lives in Florida, told reporters through tears yesterday that Stephen had given their mother money to retire comfortably and that he was at a loss over what may have driven him to commit mass.
‘My heart is torn… is destroyed for all of these people. But I can’t tell you why Steve did what he did. It’s so far over the side of the cliff from the Steve that I knew,’ he said.
Stephen made millions through real estate but also worked for the IRS and postal service at some time in his life. He is pictured in 2014
Bruce was tracked down in California after Stephen was identified as the perpetrator of Sunday’s attack.
The men’s father was serial bank robber Benjamin ‘Big Daddy’ Paddock who was on the FBI’s most wanted list.
Their mother tried to shield them from his criminal activity and created a normal, suburban life for them in Tucson, Arizona.
Benjamin was on the run for years before he was arrested in 1960 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
On New Year’s Eve in 1968, he broke out of the Federal Correctional Institution at La Tuna, Texas.
After breaking out of prison, Benjamin began using the alias ‘Benjamin Erickson’ and ‘Bruce Erickson’ – an amalgam of two of his children’s names.
He moved to Oregon where he restyled himself as the ‘Bingo King of the State’, opening the first bingo parlor in the state, running his own ‘non-denominational’ church on the proceeds of bingo.
He was finally re-captured by the FBI in September 1978, after the feds found him while they were staking out a Springfield bingo center.
A year later, he was released on parole and then appeared to live out his days in Texas until his death in 1988.
Stephen took his own life on Sunday in his 32nd floor suite at the Mandalay Bay hotel before SWAT teams could get to him.
His hail of bullets killed 58 people and injured 489. They were all attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival when he opened fire on them.
Stephen Paddock’s girlfriend Marilou Danley, 62, pictured with him above, left, in the Philippines in 2013 and right in her own driver’s license photograph, is now being questioned by the FBI
Paddock slaughtered 58 people as he rained bullets on the Route 91 Harvest Festival on Sunday night. Above, concert goers running for their lives as he sprayed bullets at them