Las Vegas shooter’s girlfriend, others still stumped by motive

Those who knew Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock best have been unable to provide substantial clues to his motive. “He never said anything to me or took any action that I was aware of that I understood in any way to be a warning that something horrible like this was going to happen,” Paddock’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley, said in a statement read by her lawyer outside FBI headquarters in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Danley returned to the United States from the Philippines on Tuesday night. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said at a news conference Wednesday that Paddock must have had some help with the shooting, given his huge arsenal, the explosive materials found in his car, and his meticulous plan, but investigators don’t know who that might be. They do know he went on a weapon-buying spree a year ago and he rented an apartment in a Las Vegas high-rise overlooking another music festival the weekend before Sunday’s shooting. He was a major gambler who played video poker, and he was allowed to stay for free in the suite at the Mandalay Bay hotel where he carried out the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history. The Clark County coroner recently revised the death toll in the massacre down to 58, not including Paddock, who appears to have committed suicide.