Brother stirred ‘extreme’ fear

LAS VEGAS killer Stephen Paddock’s unbalanced brother once threatened to kill a friend in California, court records show.

Bruce Paddock was living without permission in a friend’s San Fernando Valley home in 2014 when the pal, Hector Cruz, accused him of tampering with machinery, the records filed in Los Angeles show.

When Cruz confronted him, Paddock allegedly said, “If you keep f---ing with me, I am going to kill you and drop you in the desert.” The 57-year-old Paddock also told Cruz, “Hit me like a man,” and punched his antagonist in one arm. Cruz said he got the menacing message. “I am extremely afraid of Paddock, who has intimidated me by his violent character and destruction of my business office and my service bay,” his filing said. Cruz told the Daily News and said in his court papers that Paddock liked to get high and sold methamphetamine and marijuana. His behavior is “extremely erratic and unpredictable,” Cruz claimed. “He was extremely intelligent, but he was just trash.”