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What's The Motive? The Latest Updates On The Las Vegas Shooter — 'He Was Just A Guy... He Snapped' Brother Claims

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Oct. 3 2017, Updated 6:41 p.m. ET

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On October 1, 2017 domestic terrorist Stephen Paddock opened fire on a packed crowd at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, killing at least 58 people, and injuring over 500. Click through for the latest updates on this developing story.

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Stephen's brother Eric has spoken out about the 64-year-old's state of mind when he rained bullets down on the strip from his hotel window.

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"He was just a guy," Eric told the Daily Mail. "Something happened, he snapped or something."

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"There was absolutely no indication he could do something like this," he claimed, adding that Stephen was not particularly political or religious.

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"We know absolutely nothing, this is just, we are dumbfounded," he continued. "He's my brother, we don't have a very close relationship but we talk occasionally. There's no rhyme or reason here, it makes no sense."

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According to reports, Stephen was a licensed pilot and hunting enthusiast, and owned a home worth nearly $400,000 in a Nevada retirement community.

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Stephen's live-in girlfriend, 62-year-old Marilou Danley, who is in Asia on vacation, was named as a person of interest in the case. However, Eric claims she was not part of the crime. "She has nothing to do with this, at least from my perspective."

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According to witnesses, a woman with a male companion had been kicked out of the concert after telling people they were going to die. "There was a lady who came running up behind us in the concert and she started to play with people's hair acting crazy and she told us that we're all going to f*****g die," a concertgoer recounted.

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So far, it is unclear what, if any, connection the incident had to the shooting.

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The Las Vegas Police Department has asked that families searching for missing loved ones call 1-866-535-5654.

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