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    Las Vegas gunman was a 'stable, even-keeled personality,' longtime business associate says

    by By Adam Elmahrek, Matt Pearce and Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times Oct 06, 2017 4 minutes

    MESQUITE, Texas - Stephen Paddock, the former IRS agent and professional gambler whose shooting rampage in Las Vegas left 58 victims dead, was a laid-back "goofball" who didn't have a "serious bone in his body," a longtime employee of the gunman said Friday.

    "He was the most stable, even-keeled personality," said Lisa Crawford, who worked as a property manager in Texas for Paddock from 2006 to 2012. "He never even got frustrated."

    Crawford said she knew Paddock "better than a wife would," and had an "emotional breakdown" after Paddock was identified as the gunman in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest festival outside the Mandalay Bay hotel that also injured nearly 500 people.

    "I just pray that

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