from The Epoch Times:
The shooter who killed 60 people in a Las Vegas massacre in October 2017 may have been angry at casinos after he lost a significant amount of money in the days before the incident, according to newly released FBI files.
Stephen Paddock was accused by law enforcement of shooting into a crowd of country music fans from his Mandalay Bay hotel suite after transporting dozens of rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition into his hotel room. Officials said that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound as responding officers attempted to access his room.
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But few details have been provided about Paddock, and officials have never established a motive for why a 64-year-old high-stakes gambler would carry out the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
Last week, the FBI released redacted documents following a Wall Street Journal Freedom of Information Act request showing that a fellow gambler, whose name is redacted from the hundreds of pages of documents, told the FBI that casinos had previously treated high rollers like Paddock to free cruises, airline flights, penthouse suites, rides in “nice cars,” and tours in wine country.
But in the years leading up to the mass shooting in Las Vegas, the red carpet treatment for high rollers had faded, the gambler claimed. Casinos even began banning some high rollers “for playing well and winning large quantities of money,” the documents said.
Paddock had been banned from three Reno casinos, the gambler told FBI investigators. That individual also believed “the stress could easily be what caused” Paddock “to snap.”
The FBI documents did not provide any information for why Paddock targeted a country music concert instead of shooting up a casino if he was angry about the way he and other gamblers were being treated.
The gambler also said that Mandalay Bay “was not treating Paddock well because a player of his status should have been in a higher floor in a penthouse suite.” It’s not clear how the gambler knew Paddock.
A woman who worked at the Tropicana Las Vegas casino told the FBI that Paddock would often play 6 to 8 hours per day at casinos and was “a prolific video poker player.” During a three-day-long period in September 2017—just days before the shooting—he lost about $38,000, she told the FBI.
