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Why Did He Do It? Authorities Still Baffled By Vegas Shooter

Hopes have faded that gunman Stephen Paddock's girlfriend would shed light on why he committed the worst massacre in modern U.S. history.
President Trump talks with Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo (right) after arriving at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport on Wednesday to meet with victims and first responders of the mass shooting. / Evan Vucci / Shutterstock.com

Police and the FBI acknowledge that they are not much closer to a motive in this week's massacre in Las Vegas after the girlfriend of shooter Stephen Paddock said she had little to offer investigators.

Authorities say that Paddock — who sprayed gunfire from his 32nd-floor hotel room on Sunday, killing scores and wounding hundreds — kept to himself and stayed away from social media, leaving virtually none of the usual breadcrumbs that investigators typically rely on

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