Las Vegas shooter’s brother says he was ‘not a normal guy’

A brother of the suspect in the worst US mass shooting in the modern history says Stephen Paddock was “not a normal guy” and frequently played high stakes video poker.

Eric Paddock in an interview in Orlando, Florida, says his 64-year-old brother once “texted me a picture that he won $40,000 on a slot machine.”

He says his brother was “not a normal guy” and “played high stakes video poker.”

Eric Paddock says he last had contact with his brother via text messages in September.

He says hearing his brother named by authorities as the shooting suspect was “like if an asteroid fell out of the sky.”

Earlier, Paddock had told the Daily Mail his brother was “just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something.”

AP, Times of Israel staff

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