Stephen Paddock | |
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Born | Stephen Craig Paddock April 9, 1953 |
Died | October 1, 2017 | (aged 64)
Occupation(s) | Accountant, real estate investor |
Known for | Perpetrator of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting |
Parent | Benjamin Paddock |
Details | |
Date | October 1, 2017 ≈ 10:05 – 10:15 p.m. |
Location(s) | Las Vegas Strip, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
Target(s) | Route 91 Harvest music festival audience |
Killed | 61 (including himself) |
Injured | 851[1] |
Stephen Craig Paddock (April 9, 1953 – October 1, 2017) was an American mass murderer.
Paddock killed 60 and injured 489 people during a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada on October 1, 2017. After being discovered by the police in Mandalay Bay resort, he committed suicide by shooting himself.
According to police, Paddock acted alone. His motive remains unknown.[2][3][4][5] There has been some discussion around brain pathology.[6][7]
He was born in Clinton, Iowa and grew up in Tucson, Arizona and Sun Valley, Los Angeles. He lived in Mesquite, Nevada, and was a retired accountant.
His father Benjamin Hoskins Paddock (1926–1998) was a bank robber.