Las Vegas: Older Brother Of Stephen Paddock Narrates The Story Of His Brother And Family History.
Bruce was tracked down in California after Stephen was identified as the perpetrator of Sunday's attack.
The men's father was serial bank robber Benjamin 'Big Daddy' Paddock who was on the FBI's most wanted list.
Their mother tried to shield them from his criminal activity and created a normal, suburban life for them in Tucson, Arizona.
Benjamin was on the run for years before he was arrested in 1960 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
On New Year's Eve in 1968, he broke out of the Federal Correctional Institution at La Tuna, Texas.
After breaking out of prison, Benjamin began using the alias 'Benjamin Erickson' and 'Bruce Erickson' - an amalgam of two of his children's names.
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He moved to Oregon where he restyled himself as the 'Bingo King of the State', opening the first bingo parlor in the state, running his own 'non-denominational' church on the proceeds of bingo.
He was finally re-captured by the FBI in September 1978, after the feds found him while they were staking out a Springfield bingo center.
A year later, he was released on parole and then appeared to live out his days in Texas until his death in 1988.
Stephen took his own life on Sunday in his 32nd floor suite at the Mandalay Bay hotel before SWAT teams could get to him.
His hail of bullets killed 59 people and injured 527. They were all attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival when he opened fire on them.
In further details, he added: "It is not clear whether Stephen had yet begun making the 'millions' Bruce described in interviews after Sunday's shooting".
Information about Stephen's life is slowly pouring in in the aftermath of his massacre.
He once worked for the IRS and the postal service and had dozens of homes in various states.
Las Vegas: Older Brother Of Stephen Paddock Narrates The Story Of His Brother And Family History.
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