Accountant, investor & nobody
in Nevada, was politically disinterested and steered clear of trouble with the law.
“No affiliation, no religion, no politics,” said Eric Paddock outside his home in Waterford Lakes, Fla. “He never cared about any of that stuff. He was a guy who had money. He went on cruises and gambled.”
Stephen Paddock recently purchased a walker for his 90-year-old mom and shipped it from Nevada to her Florida home, and his brother described him as “not an avid gun guy at all.”
But authorities uncovered another side of Paddock after the mass murderer ended his bloody rampage by committing suicide in a 32nd-floor room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
His one-story, three-bedroom suburban home contained a stash of 19 firearms, explosives and several thousand rounds of ammunition.
The car that he drove to Las Vegas before the Sunday night shooting spree was also loaded with bomb-making material.
A source told the Daily News that Paddock was a frequent visitor to Las Vegas, losing up to $25,000 at a time but never considered a high roller.
The killer was reportedly gambling heavily in the weeks before he snapped on the final night of a country music festival that drew 22,000 to the Las Vegas Strip.
Despite his paternal lineage, the retired Paddock had no federal, state or local history with law enforcement before his Sunday night rampage — except for a minor citation that was disposed of in court, according to CBS.
“We had no knowledge of this individual,” said Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo. “We checked all the databases . . . . This is an individual described as a lone wolf.”
The owners of a gun shop in Mesquite where Paddock was a customer agreed there was nothing odd about him. He passed all background checks as required by federal and local laws.
“He never gave any indication or reason to believe he was unstable or unfit at any time,” read the statement from Guns & Guitars Inc.
New Frontier Armory in North Las Vegas said it also sold weapons to Paddock, who passed the required checks, NBC News reported.
Though Paddock was a fan of Las Vegas, he became “unhinged” after a failed lawsuit against the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas hotel in 2012. The slipand-fall case was dismissed be-