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🗓️ 25 December 2019
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0:00.0 | Stephen Paddock, the mind of a mass murderer. |
0:07.0 | October 1st, 2017. The Route 91 Harvest Music Festival was in full swing on Vegas Boulevard, |
0:19.0 | right in front of the Luxor and across from Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. |
0:24.0 | Everyone was having fun. |
0:26.0 | Country singer Jason Aldine |
0:28.0 | was performing his last song of the set |
0:30.0 | as the crowd of 22,000 people sang and danced along. |
0:35.0 | At around 10.05 p.m. amidst all the music, shots began to ring out in rapid succession. |
0:47.0 | One by one people drop to the ground, concert goers rushed out in masses trying to get to safety, then 10 minutes later the gunfire stopped. |
0:58.1 | Over 800 people were injured, trampled or hit by gunfire, while 52 people lost their lives. |
1:02.0 | Completely dumbfounded. |
1:04.0 | Eric Paddock from Orlando, Florida was completely dumbfounded |
1:09.0 | when he found out his brother Stephen had gone on a shooting spree. It felt like Mars just fell into the earth, as he put it. |
1:17.0 | For him, he knew his brother was just a guy who stayed at hotels on the strip, gambled his money, and attended various shows. |
1:25.0 | Born in Clinton, Iowa, Stephen was the oldest of four sons by Benjamin Paddock, |
1:32.0 | a bank robber who was once arrested for his crimes in 1960. |
1:37.0 | After escaping prison in 1969, Benjamin was listed on the FBI's Most Wanted list. |
1:44.0 | Stephen graduated from California State University with a degree in business administration. |
1:50.0 | He worked for the U.S. Postal Service for two years. |
1:53.5 | After that, he started working for the IRS until 1984. |
1:58.1 | By the end of the 80s, he was an internal auditor for a company |
2:01.5 | that went on to merge with Lockheed Martin. On the side of his main job, |
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