Las Vegas shooter’s brother says family is ‘dumbfounded’

The brother of the Las Vegas shooter said that he was a normal guy who must have ‘snapped’ before carrying out the worst mass shooting in American history.

In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Eric Paddock said that ‘something happened’ to make his brother Stephen kill at least 50 people and injure 200.

Eric said that there was ‘absolutely no indication he could do something like this’ and said that Stephen had no political or religious affiliation.

He said: ‘He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something’.

Speaking from his home in Orlando, Florida, Eric said: ‘We know absolutely nothing, this is just, we are dumbfounded.

 

Hope she's not involved: Eric Paddock, the shooter's brother, said of Marilou Danley: 'She has nothing to do with this, at least from my perspective.'

Hope she’s not involved: Eric Paddock, the shooter’s brother, said of Marilou Danley: ‘She has nothing to do with this, at least from my perspective.’

At least 50 people are dead and 200 injured after the Sunday shooting at the Las Vegas music festival 

At least 50 people are dead and 200 injured after the Sunday shooting at the Las Vegas music festival 

Three people lie on the ground, one covered in blood, after the shooting at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Sunday

Three people lie on the ground, one covered in blood, after the shooting at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Sunday

A police officer takes cover behind a police vehicle during the shooting near the Mandalay Bay resort and casino

People take cover at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival

A police officer takes cover behind a police vehicle during the shooting near the Mandalay Bay resort and casino (left); people take cover at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival (right)

‘We have absolutely no idea. Our condolences go to the victims and all their families’.

Eric said that he and Stephen, 64, lived on different coasts – Stephen’s last address was in Mesquite, Nevada – and that they did not speak that often.

He said that his mother was ‘in shock’ and struggling to cope with the news.

He said: ‘Our family is OK, we’re sitting in here in our house hoping that everyone doesn’t attack us.

‘My mother is 90 years old, lives down the street from me, we’re just completely dumbfounded

You can imagine how this is affected her.

‘He’s my brother, we don’t have a very close relationship but we talk occasionally. There’s no rhyme or reason here, it makes no sense’.

Eric said that they were hoping that the police do not shoot dead his brother’s girlfriend Marilou Danley, 62, who is wanted by the FBI and was living with Stephen in Mesquite.

He said: ‘She has nothing to do with this, at least from my perspective.

‘He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something, he was just a guy.

‘He has no political affiliation, no religious affiliation, as far as we know. This wasn’t a terror attack’. 

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