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Inte långsökt att Stephen Paddock kan ha utvecklat ett allmänt hat mot samhället, efter att hans far burades in när han var 7 år. Kanske en troligare motivbild, än konvertering.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11929685
Neighbours in several states where he owned homes in retirement communities described him as surly, unfriendly and standoffish.
Relatives say the roots of Paddock's loner lifestyle may have been planted July 28, 1960. On that day, when Paddock was 7, a neighbour from across the street took him swimming. The neighbour at the time told a local newspaper that she knew authorities were coming for his father, a bank robber, and she wanted to spare the boy the trauma of seeing his father hauled away by authorities.
From that point on, Paddock's family was never the same.
His mother struggled to raise him and his brothers on her own. His father escaped from prison - twice - and had little more contact with them, relatives say. As they grew older, Stephen, the eldest, and the youngest brother, Eric, kept in touch, but Stephen Paddock drifted almost completely out of touch with his two other brothers, Bruce and Patrick.
Eric said that Stephen stopped talking to his brother Bruce because Bruce used to beat him up when they were kids and that Stephen stopped talking to Patrick because they're very different people.
Even with Eric he never talked much. They created a lucrative real estate investment business together, but Stephen would only text Eric now and then.
"We didn't talk much. We talked when there was something to talk about," Eric Paddock said. "Steve had no help. Steve did not take help. He was a stand-alone guy."
Choking up as he talked, Eric said: "Steve was like a dad surrogate. He took me camping. I liked my brother. He was a good guy."
Relatives say the roots of Paddock's loner lifestyle may have been planted July 28, 1960. On that day, when Paddock was 7, a neighbour from across the street took him swimming. The neighbour at the time told a local newspaper that she knew authorities were coming for his father, a bank robber, and she wanted to spare the boy the trauma of seeing his father hauled away by authorities.
From that point on, Paddock's family was never the same.
His mother struggled to raise him and his brothers on her own. His father escaped from prison - twice - and had little more contact with them, relatives say. As they grew older, Stephen, the eldest, and the youngest brother, Eric, kept in touch, but Stephen Paddock drifted almost completely out of touch with his two other brothers, Bruce and Patrick.
Eric said that Stephen stopped talking to his brother Bruce because Bruce used to beat him up when they were kids and that Stephen stopped talking to Patrick because they're very different people.
Even with Eric he never talked much. They created a lucrative real estate investment business together, but Stephen would only text Eric now and then.
"We didn't talk much. We talked when there was something to talk about," Eric Paddock said. "Steve had no help. Steve did not take help. He was a stand-alone guy."
Choking up as he talked, Eric said: "Steve was like a dad surrogate. He took me camping. I liked my brother. He was a good guy."
Inte långsökt att Stephen Paddock kan ha utvecklat ett allmänt hat mot samhället, efter att hans far burades in när han var 7 år. Kanske en troligare motivbild, än konvertering.
