Shot 6 mins. before massacre began

INVESTIGATORS STILL piecing together the Las Vegas massacre changed the time line of events Monday, saying Stephen Paddock shot a hotel security guard a full six minutes before opening fire on a country music concert.

Police previously had said Mandalay Bay guard Jesus Campos approached Paddock’s room after he launched his attack on the crowd.

But Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Campos went to the room after hearing some drilling on the other side of the door.

Paddock, who had placed a security camera outside the room, shot through the door. Campos was hit in the leg.

“Mr. Campos was encountered by the suspect prior to his shooting to the outside world,” Lombardo said at a Monday news conference.

Lombardo also said Paddock had personal protection equipment in his room, and that he had attempted to shoot at gas tanks in a possible effort to divert attention while he tried to get away.

Paddock slaughtered at least 58 people and injured nearly 500 others on Oct. 1. He fatally shot himself before police officers could reach his room.

Investigators remain mystified by the maniac’s motives — but a deposition he gave in 2013 offers a glimpse into his strange life spent prowling casinos.

The document, tied to a slipand-fall lawsuit Paddock once filed, paints a portrait of him as a night owl who made high-stakes bets, dressed like a slob and hated the sun.

The 64-year-old millionaire real estate investor even boasted to lawyers taking the deposition that he was the “biggest video poker player in the world.”

“How do I know that? Because I know some of the video poker players that play big,” Paddock said. “Nobody played as much and as long as I did.”

He said he would bet as much as a $1 million in one night and at his peak, in 2006, his poker play time “averaged 14 hours a day, 365 days a year.”

CNN reported the contents of the deposition on Monday. The document stemmed from his lawsuit against the Cosmopolitan hotel after he fell there in October 2011. He eventually lost the case.

In his deposition, Paddock talked about living in comped casino hotel rooms, keeping a doctor on retainer and having a happy disposition.

When lawyers asked at the deposition if he was drunk at the time of his accident, he testified he was “perfectly sober.”

“I was my normal, happy-golucky self,” he said.

Despite his whopping wagers, Paddock didn’t dress the part of a high roller — he said in his deposition that he preferred sweatpants and flip-flops. And he kept to a simple routine.

“I’ll gamble all night. I sleep during the day,” he said.

When lawyers asked if he ever visited hotel pools, he blanched at the suggestion. “I don’t do sun,” he replied. Paddock also said that he would take Valium for “anxiousness,” but told lawyers that he had no criminal record or history of mental illness.