IMPORTANT - "Paddock described himself as a gambler" & "he lived by gambling"

[highplainsdem]

From the Palm Beach Post:

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime--law/breaking-vegas-gunman-once-owned-home-melbourne/Ze4TrBOc9L2ssTgGicIkRK/

The man police say sprayed deadly gunfire into a county music concert in Las Vegas late Sunday owned a home on the Space Coast as recently as 2015, records show.

Stephen Paddock, 64, owned a home in Heritage Isle, a 55-plus community off Wickham Road in Viera, a neighborhood of Melbourne in Brevard County, according to real estate records.The neighborhood is about 120 miles north of West Palm Beach.

Records show Paddock bought a two-bedroom house on a quarter-acre lot on Sansome Circle in April 2013 and sold it in May 2015. It was unclear how much time he spent in Florida while owning the property.

Neighbors told Florida Today on Monday that Paddock described himself as a gambler and said he wasn’t around much during the two years he owned the home. A couple who lived next door said that he and his girlfriend, Marilou Danley, came to the sparsely furnished home perhaps five times in all.

“First time we ever met him, he handed us the key to the house and said, ‘Hey would keep an eye on the house, we’re only going to be here every now and then,’ ” Sharon Judy, one of the neighbors, told Florida Today on Monday.

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You have to be fairly well off to be that casual about property.

And this meshes with what Paddock's brother Eric has said, according to ABC, which reported earlier this morning that Eric Paddock had said his brother was well known to Vegas casionos, and that at one time Stephen Paddock owned several pieces of property in Vegas.

My recollection is that the TV report made it sound as if Paddock no longer owned that Vegas property.

If he'd suffered dramatic financial losses -- which is common with gamblers -- he might have decided to kill himself...and take countless others with him.

His girlfriend, now reportedly out of the country, should be able to answer a lot of questions.


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More from that Florida today article:

http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/crime/2017/10/02/las-vegas-shooter-lived-melbourne-reports-show/722411001/

Neighbors said Paddock wasn't around much during the two years he owned the home. Don and Sharon Judy, who have lived at the residence next door to Paddock's house since 2013, said he and his girlfriend, Marilou Danley, only came to the home about five times in the two years he owned it.

“He seemed normal, other than that he lived by gambling. He was very open about that," Sharon Judy said. "First time we ever met him, he handed us the key to the house and said, 'Hey, would keep an eye on the house, we’re only going to be here every now and then.'"

The house was sparse, the Judys said. Some chairs, a bed in each bedroom and laptops were all they saw when inside the house. Paddock told them that he and his girlfriend would stay up all night gambling.

The few times the Judys went inside Paddock's house, they didn't see any weapons.

"Now I'm really shocked," Sharon said. "Really really shocked that he could be so normal and then all of a sudden do something like this. I mean, there was nothing about him."

[highplainsdem]

1. Kick

[highplainsdem]

4. Again

[ChoppinBroccoli]

2. Kinda Rules Out Him Being A Recent Muslim Convert Too

The RW propaganda machine is floating the idea that he recently converted to Islam. Muslims don't gamble.

[highplainsdem]

3. Good point.

[linuxman]

5. My my sister-in-law, Brother-in-law, and myself all gamble. We're all Muslims.