Then he smashed open a pair of windows with a hammer and opened fire with a carefully assembled arsenal, murdering 58 fans gathered at an outdoor country music concert and injuring 489 more before killing himself. Last week, Stephen Paddock returned to the Las Vegas Strip, where he spent many hours and thousands of dollars at high-limit video poker machines, and eyed the fun-seekers crowding his oasis.īut this time he did so from a 32nd floor casino hotel suite. 'He was the king of microaggression,' his brother, Eric, said. Then Paddock, a denizen of hazy casinos, would take out his cigar, light it and carefully aim its smoke back into the faces of those whose puffing annoyed him.
But he was quick to notice when somebody sat down beside him and lit up.
Stephen Paddock usually kept a cigar at hand, even though he didn't smoke.
