Las Vegas shooter had been losing money for two years and 'was going in the wrong direction,' sherif

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Las Vegas shooter had been losing money for two years and 'was going in the wrong direction,' sheriff says

By David Montero

The man who shot hundreds and killed 58 at the Route 91 Harvest music festival a month ago was a narcissist who may have seen his image as a high-rolling gambler declining, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said as the investigation into the Oct. 1 shooting rampage entered its second month.

“He was going through some bouts of depression. But he was status-driven,” Lombardo said in a wide-ranging interview with 8 News Now in Las Vegas that offered the first hints of what might have driven 64-year-old Stephen Paddock to open fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.

Paddock had been losing money for two years, Lombardo said, and had been showing signs of depression.

“Since September 2015, he's lost a significant amount of wealth, and I think that might have been a determining factor on what he was determined to do,” Lombardo said in his Wednesday night interview.

“This individual was status-driven based on how he liked to be recognized in the casino environment and how he liked to be recognized by his friends and family. So obviously that was starting to decline in the short period of time and that may have had a determining effect on why decided to do what he did," the sheriff said.
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more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-shooting-sheriff-20171102-story.html


Holy crap ! Narcissists can turn dangerous when forced to face reality ? Who knew ?

[BigmanPigman]

1. Have they investigated his lost lawsuit against

a casino? That could have added to his downward spiral.

[SharonAnn]

2. Funny, that was my first guess about what triggered the shootings.

[Thor_MN]

3. "Narcissists can turn dangerous when forced to face reality ?"

Gee, thanks for that thought right before going to bed...

Since we have a malignant narcissist with access to nuclear launch codes.

Like I really wanted to feel like I was prepping for a colonoscopy.

[JayhawkSD]

4. The article actually doesn't say anything.

If a guy with $20 million loses $1 million he has "lost a significant amount of money." Is that loss going to send him into any kind of severe depression or make him desperate? It's hard to think so. And yet all this clown in uniform tells us is that the shooter had "lost a significant amount of money." Nothing about how much, where, or what portion of his wealth it represented.

He also says he was "going in the wrong direction." What does that mean? Did he take the wrong freeway exit?

So this uniformed self-styled psychologist says that the loss of "a significant amount of wealth" and taking the wrong freeway exit "I think that might have been a determining factor" in him going on a killing spree.

Why does a supposedly reputable newspaper print such drivel?

[Blue_Tires]

5. So he was just a degenerate gambler angry over his losses?

And as a result all those people had to die??

[raccoon]

6. So why didn't he just go and quietly shoot himself? Nt