NBC: Vegas Suspect Wired $100,000 To Girlfriend’s Home Country Last Week

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Stephen Paddock, the man accused of killing 59 people and injuring more than 500 in a mass shooting in Las Vegas Sunday night wired $100,000 to the Philippines last week, NBC reported Tuesday, citing multiple senior law enforcement officials.

While the shooter’s live-in girlfriend is from the Philippines, authorities said it wasn’t clear who the money was intended for.

Authorities initially believed Marilou Danley was traveling with Paddock at the time of the attack, but have since confirmed she’s been traveling overseas since Sept. 25 and was in the Philippines at the time of the attack, NBC reported.

Paddock, who authorities believe killed himself before police were able to apprehend him, had been dating Danley for less than a year.

Danely is scheduled to return to the U.S. on Wednesday, officials told NBC.

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  1. The murderous bastard was preparing for his eventual suicide.

  2. Cheapo bastard!, only 100K for the girlfriend? Unless she intends to stay in the Philippines that’s not going to last for long.

  3. I support and admire the first responders. I don’t mind if a person has a rifle for hunting or a gun for protection or both. But the 40 or more killing instruments this man had is beyond imagination. And apparently all legal. We need more protection from this kind of excessive weapons. If this is not the time to talk about that, when is it?

  4. I can see the new Alex Jones/Cernovich/Posobiec theory forming right now: Marilou Danley was kidnapped by Muslim insurgents in the Philippines, and the $100K was to secure her freedom. When the Muslims realized they had a patsy on a string, they upped the ante and demanded he slaughter as many God-fearing country music fans as he could or they would kill her.

  5. My theory is that he was paying off his bookie.

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