Portrait of Vegas gunman missing a motive

LAS VEGAS — The heavy gambler had $2.1 million in his bank account in 2015. By last September, that had dwindled to $530,000. It was one month before Stephen Paddock carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.

But Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said the steep financial losses alone can’t fully explain why Paddock checked into the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino with guns in his suitcases and murder on his mind in the days leading up to Oct. 1.

He left no manifesto, no video message, and his reasons for killing 58 and wounding hundreds at a concert remain unknown.

Instead, a detailed 187-page report released Friday by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department revealed, through a series of witness interviews, that Paddock was a narcissist, a bit of a loner and a man becoming increasingly distant from the only person he appeared to be close to — girlfriend Marilou Danley.

The report also was definitive in identifying Paddock as the gunman who fired more than 1,000 rounds into the crowd while Jason Aldean was performing on the festival stage.

“Single shooter. No conspiracy,” Lombardo said.

The sheriff said Paddock was “an unremarkable” man who went from former postal worker, IRS employee and real estate investor to full-time gambler.

The FBI is expected to release this year a more complete behavioral profile of Paddock, but contained within the final report issued Friday are summaries of those who encountered the 64-year-old Paddock before the massacre. They provide more insight into Paddock — a balding, overweight man with bad teeth and who was also a germaphobe.

Danley was a key to the report and described Paddock to investigators as romantic at the beginning of their relationship. They moved into a condo in Reno in 2013.

Danley described to investigators how they then moved into a new, upscale home in Mesquite in 2015 and the two would travel on cruises to Asia, the Mediterranean, the Bahamas and Dubai.