Killer was casino high roller

MOTIVE: LAS VEGAS POLICE NO CLOSER TO FINDING OUT WHY PADDOCK CARRIED OUT ATTACK

Las Vegas mass killer Stephen Paddock was a compulsive player of video poker who took the anxiety drug Valium, CNN reported on Monday. The report gave new details about the background of the 64-year-old who, on October 1, gunned down 58 people and wounded almost 500 for reasons which investigators still have not been able to fathom.

Paddock said in a 2013 court deposition that he was “the biggest video poker player in the world,” according to CNN, which obtained a copy of the 97-page document.

The deposition was turned over to the FBI, the news network said.

It was part of a civil lawsuit against the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where he slipped and fell on a walkway in 2011.

Paddock at times seemed to be arrogant and sarcastic during the deposition, according to CNN.

In another development, the sheriff of Las Vegas Joseph Lombardo told reporters on Monday that a security guard who was injured by Paddock was in fact shot six minutes before the gunman opened fire on the crowd.

Security guard Jesus Campos was previously hailed as a hero and credited with stopping the assault on the concert crowd by turning the gunman’s attention to the hotel hallway.

The new revelation raises questions about why police could not locate Paddock sooner – and indeed why he ended his attack.

As a high roller, he often lived at the casinos where rooms were provided free “95% of the time” and where he wandered about in black Nike sweat pants and flipflops, Paddock said.

Paddock lost his lawsuit against the Cosmopolitan Hotel, CNN said. –