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    Here's what we know (and don't know) about the Las Vegas shooting

    by By Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times Oct 05, 2017 6 minutes

    Investigators have painstakingly pieced together Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock's actions during his 10-minute attack on the Route 91 Harvest Festival in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.

    But neither officials nor the gunman's relatives can shed light on the biggest question still unanswered: Why did he do it?

    Here's what we know so far about the Las Vegas shooting and the ongoing investigation:

    WHO WAS STEPHEN PADDOCK?

    "We grew up poor on the side of the freeway in the San Fernando Valley," his brother Eric Paddock told reporters Wednesday. "We were troublesome kids."

    Paddock's father was a notorious bank robber. Benjamin Hoskins Paddock went by the aliases "Chromedome" and "Big Daddy." He robbed a bank in Tucson in 1960, when Stephen was 7 years old.

    Paddock spent much of his life in greater Los Angeles. Stephen and his brothers moved to Los Angeles with their mother, who raised them on a secretary's salary. He graduated from Cal State Northridge with a degree in business administration in 1977.

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