The girlfriend of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock said Wednesday that “it never occurred to me in any way whatsoever” that he was planning the massacre that killed 58 people and injured 489 others during a country music concert on the Strip. “I knew Stephen Paddock as a kind, caring, quiet man,” Marilou Danley said in a statement read by her attorney outside FBI headquarters in Los Angeles. “I loved him and hoped for a quiet future together with him. He never said anything to me or took any
action that I was aware of that I understood in any way to be a warning that something horrible like this was going to happen.” Danley was questioned by federal agents for much of Wednesday after returning from her native Philippines, where she had been for more than two weeks. In the statement, Danley said Paddock told her that he had “found a cheap ticket for me to the Philippines and that he wanted me to take a trip home to see my family.” READ MORE
