APNewsBreak: The FBI finds no specific pattern in the filming of Vegas

A player who rained a shower of gunfire on a crowd of country music fans, killing 58 people, carried the pattern of the 2017 attack to his grave, the FBI announced on Tuesday. term of investigation on the most lethal murder in the history of the United States.

The agency found no "single or clear motivational factor" as to why Stephen Paddock had conducted the attack from his suite in a casino hotel located in a high-rise building . The 64-year-old police officer was shot dead while the police were closed.

"It was not about MGM, Mandalay Bay or a casino or specific venue," said Aaron Rouse, the FBI's chief office officer in Las Vegas. Associated Press. "It was all about doing the maximum damage and getting a form of infamy."

The conclusion is contained in a long-awaited report, written by the FBI's Behavior Analysis Unit, a group of experts who spent months looking at several factors that might have led to the rampage.

"This report is as close to understanding the why we are ever going to get," said Rouse.

Nearly 900 people were injured during October 1, 2017. Attack on an outdoor concert.

Paddock wanted to die of infamy, partly inspired by his father's reputation as a bank robber who was once on the FBI's most wanted list, according to the report . In many ways he was similar to other active shooters investigated by the FBI.

His "decision to murder people while entertaining them was in keeping with his personality," the report says.

The shooter was not led or inspired by any group and was seeking to advance any agenda. According to the report, he did not leave a suicide manifesto or suicide note, and federal agents think he planned to kill himself after the attack.

Paddock was a postal services retiree, an accountant and a real estate investor who owned rental properties. and homes in Reno and a retired community more than an hour's drive from Las Vegas. He also held a private pilot license and liked to bet tens of thousands of dollars at a time by playing high stakes video poker.

His younger brother, Eric Paddock, called him the "king of micro-aggression" – narcissistic and detail-oriented. and perhaps bored with life to plan an attack that would make him famous. His ex-wife told investigators that he had grown up with a single mother in a financially unstable home and that he felt the need to support himself.

Police described him as solitary without religious or political affiliation who had started storing weapons about a year before the attack. He spent more than $ 1.5 million in the two years preceding the shooting and moved away from his girlfriend and family.

He sent his girlfriend, Marilou Danley, to visit his family in the Philippines two weeks before the attack and fired him $ 150,000. She was there. Danley, a former casino employee in Reno, returned to the United States after the shooting and told the authorities that Paddock had complained of being sick and that the doctors had told him that he was suffering from a "chemical imbalance" and that he could not cure it.

Danley, who is Catholic, told investigators that Paddock had often told him, "Your God does not love me."

A Reno car salesman told the police that in the months leading up to the shooting, Paddock had told him that he was depressed and that he had relationship problems. his doctor offered him antidepressants. Paddock would only accept a prescription for anti-anxiety medications, the seller said.

Paddock's gambling habits made him a sought after casino client. Mandalay Bay employees willingly let him use a service lift to carry several suitcases in the suite at $ 590 a night, which had been provided to him free of charge. Authorities said he had asked for the room offering breathtaking views of the Strip and the concert halls of Route 91 Harvest Festival, located across the street.

On the night of the massacre, Paddock used assault rifles to shoot more than 1,000 shots. 11 minutes in the crowd of 22,000 music fans. Most of the rifles were equipped with anti-bullet devices and high capacity magazines. Some had bipod splints and litters. The authorities stated that Paddock's weapons had been legally purchased.

Las Vegas police closed his investigation last August and Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said the police work was over after hundreds of interviews and thousands of people. hours of investigation. Lombardo vows to never again pronounce Paddock's name in public

Another report, released in August and involving the Federal Emergency Management Agency, revealed that communications were intercepted during and after the shooting . Police, firefighters and medical staff were overwhelmed by calls to 911, false reports of other shootings in Las Vegas casinos and the number of victims. Media organizations, including the PA, have shown that police used explosives to blow up the door of the hotel suite on the 32nd floor where Paddock had been found dead.

He left no explanation.

"He acted alone, he committed a heinous act and died with his own hand," said Rouse. "If he wanted to leave a message, he would have left it in short, he did not want people to know."

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Associate journalist Michelle L. Price of Las Vegas contributed to this report.