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Scrooj from Nevada
Who was the peddy, who arranged the most massive execution in the latest history of the United States, - The New Times looked at the foreign press
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For a week and a half, which took place after shooting in Las Vegas, as a result of which 58 people and hundreds were injured, the police failed to figure out what forced Stephen Paddok to arrange a mass execution during the country of music music.
Calm and inconspicuous
Almost 60 years ago, there was also shooting in Las Vegas. In 1960, the FBI agents on a strange radio antennary on the roof of the car calculated the robber, which shortly before this cleaned three banks in Arizona totaling almost $ 25 thousand. The offender directed his car directly to the FBI agents. One of them shot, the bullet broke through the windshield, but the robber disappeared. A few days later he was still caught. The car was clogged with a weapon. The name of the robber is Benjamin Paddok, father of Stephen Paddok.
The neighbors of Paddoks then, in 1960, expressed extreme surprise when they heard what their neighbor Benjamin got into. They described him as a very calm and completely inconspicuous man. However, the same thing today is said about the Steve Paddok. His 62-year-old girlfriend, Philippine from Australia, Maryl Danley, in her appeal read by lawyer Matthew Lombard, said that “she knew him as a good, caring and calm person. He never said anything or did something that would alarmed me or would have a thought that something terrible could happen. ” “Boys like Paddok, we go into our store 50 thousand times a day,” says Chris Michael seller, in the store of which a shooter from Las Vegas bought his ammunition.
Stephen Paddok. Photo: au.news.yahoo.com
Paddok had a house in Meskita (Nevada), but in recent years he lived in a small microdistrict where rich pensioners live, in another state of state - Renault. The neighbors of Paddok and Danley say that the couple led a closed lifestyle, although in their compound everyone communicates with each other. Windows and doors have always been closed. The couple was often away, traveled a lot. But when they were in place, Maryle, for example, could take part in the annual meeting of neighbors and even prepare many Philippine dishes, but Stephen never appeared there. Could, like Dickensky Scrooj, say nothing in response to Merry Christmas - pass by, without even looking towards the congratulator.
In conversations with investigators, Mariel nevertheless recalled that her lover sometimes shouted “OH, My God” in a dream and moaned in bed. She also informed the investigation that back in June, the doctor prescribed him a sedative medicine to relieve symptoms of anxiety.
Employees of the Starbax cafe, which is located next to their house, now recall that Paddok could have reported his girlfriend for all. And on the eve of October 1, when everything happened, Paddok complained several times to the administrator about his too noisy neighbors from below in that ill-fated hotel in Las Vegas. All these indications may indicate that he had problems with the psyche. And they may not testify. In any case, former FBI officers who performed NBC News, said that these problems were not so serious as to bring Paddok to what he had done. Or were they the top of the iceberg - the natural manifestations of the inner tension in which was Paddok, who planned to arrange a slaughterhouse?
"Starts like Paddok, we go into our store 50 thousand times a day"
While the father is on the wanted list
Neither 64-year-old Steve Paddok, nor his brother Eric, as the latter admitted to the British publication The Independent , had nothing to do with their unconscious father. In general, there are four brothers, and Stephen of them the oldest, and Eric is the youngest. With two average they have not communicated for twenty years. After that arrest, the father received 20 years in prison, but escaped, having served eight years. But all the next eight years, Benjamin Paddok was in the first ten of those who have been looking for the FBI. The boys were born, and the father was on the run all the time. They were raised by mom.
While his father was on the federal wanted list, his eldest son graduated from the polytechnic gymnasium and entered the University of California, which graduated from the specialty of business invoices. He worked in state institutions, in the US postal service, made an audit in different companies. In the 1990s he acquired several real estate objects throughout the country and lived at the expense of income from their delivery. Relatives of Paddok estimate his fortune at about $ 2 million.
Eric told The New York Times that from an early age, Stephen knew that he could not rely on anyone, that he should control everything himself and was terribly afraid of poverty. Eric himself completely relied on his brother, entrusting his savings to his management and becoming a partner in his real estate management company: "I knew that he would succeed."
Stephen was married twice and divorced twice. There were no children. He showed no particular interest in politics, religion, nor in social activity. Now, brother Eric cannot name anything that would greatly interest his older brother, except for the Poker game.
Interestingly, the love of gambling players from Las Vegas seemed to inherit from his father. In 1977, Bedzamin Paddok even opened Bingo-Salon (a kind of Russian lotto) in Oregon, for which he later even received the nickname Bingo Bruce (there is a clear hint of Bruce Lee).
Eric completely relied on his brother, entrusting his savings to his management and becoming a partner in his real estate management company: “I knew that he would succeed”
No movements, only hands
“He was not particularly prompted. It’s not to say that he smiled a lot and was friendly, ”recalls in an interview with The New York Times the executive director of Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Renault (Nevada) John Winerych, where Paddok was a once frequent client. There he met Mariel Danley. -Sitting behind a poker automat, Paddok resembled a statue. His body almost did not move, only his hands. ”
Poker automans, who preferred Paddok, are also not one of those that attract attention. They do not call with lights and do not emit excess noise. Paddok could sit behind them for hours, often winning a hundred dollars per party. He had his own manner of playing - intuitive, decisive, calculating. He played silently, only pupils and his agile fingers moved. With such a concentrated game in an hour, he managed to play hundreds of parties in poker.
His methodical style and level of skill allowed him to play gambling and from time to time to win tens of thousands of dollars per sitting. In addition to money, he received various bonuses. For example, at the end of September, in gratitude for his loyalty to the Bay Resort and Casino Mandelia (Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino) gave Paddok free accommodation in that very elite number on the 32nd floor.
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Farewell gift
Stephen played gambling as he lived - always weighing the risks. He was careful and loved to plan everything in advance, did not want to rely on the will of chance. Eric recalls that his older brother always carried with him two mobile phones with SIM cards of different operators-just in case, if there are problems with the network.
He also methodically prepared the departure of his lover on the eve of the conceived operation in Las Vegas. Surprisingly, it was Maryl who managed to melt this cold and prudent person. According to Eric Paddok, with her he was not imperious and demanding, which could be with others. “When Steve was late, he believed that people are obliged to wait for him. But he himself could not wait for others. And he allowed her to be late. He allowed her that he would not allow all of humanity. Even me, ”recalls Eric.
“Sitting after a poker automat, Paddok resembled a statue. His body almost did not move, only his hands "
Two weeks before the execution in Las Vegas, Stephen gave Maryla a ticket to the Philippines so that she could see his relatives. And when his girlfriend was already in place, Paddok transferred her $ 100 thousand to buy a house.
“I was afraid that in this way he decided to tell me that he was leaving me,” said Marila.
One way or another, this money turned out to be his last gift of his lover before he locked himself in a room in the “Magns-Bay” with 23 units of weapons and opened shooting at the crowd relaxed music ...
Weapons: for and against
The Guns and Guitars weapons store, where Paddok was the last time purchased, has now become famous for the whole world. But in the store this is not very happy. One of the employees told the journalist Lasvegas Review Journal that after a massacre in Las Vegas he was threatened several times on the phone, one indignant local resident even came to his house. Someone wrote by car "Die". But there were those who stood up for the store. One of the visitors went to find out about the pistols. He called himself just Scott, said that he had never had weapons before, although he thought that there should be something to protect in the house. Shooting at the Bay Mendel and his wife finally convinced them - time came.
Thus, a regiment of supporters of maintaining a second amendment to the US Constitution, which guarantees the right to freely store and carry weapons, was replenished with at least another person. But, obviously, people also increased in the regiment of those who would be ready to support its cancellation. The line between simply irritation and the desire to shoot everyone, apparently, is much thinner if there is a weapon at hand. And sometimes it turns out, so ghostly that even the closest people do not notice her.