The word on everyone's lip right now is, "why did he do it?" So as investigators quiz the girlfriend of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock after her return from the Philippines to the US, they will be hoping to find clues to why he carried out his deadly shooting spree. Meanwhile, a likely reason has emerged.
Marilou Danley, who was in the Philippines at the time of Sunday night's mass shooting - the worst in modern US history - has not been arrested by US officials, but lived with the 64-year-old gunman at his retirement community home in Mesquite, Nevada - which property officials have searched and found a number of weapons.
Stephen Paddock, who had no previous record of violence or crime, was prescribed an anti-anxiety drug in June that can lead to aggressive behaviour, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
It said records showed Paddock was prescribed 50 diazepam tablets by a doctor on 21 June.
Paddock bought the drug - also known as Valium - on the same day it was prescribed. He was supposed to take one pill a day.
Diazepam is a sedative-hypnotic drug in the class of drugs known as benzodizepines, which studies have shown can trigger aggressive behaviour.
Paddock sprayed a crowd below with hundreds of rounds. He took his own life before police broke into his hotel room, where they found 23 guns and 12 "bump stock" devices that can enable a rifle to fire continuously, like an automatic weapon.
Could this have been the reason the man went berserk shooting and killing tens of people while injuring hundreds more?
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Stephen Paddock, who had no previous record of violence or crime, was prescribed an anti-anxiety drug in June that can lead to aggressive behaviour, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
It said records showed Paddock was prescribed 50 diazepam tablets by a doctor on 21 June.
Paddock bought the drug - also known as Valium - on the same day it was prescribed. He was supposed to take one pill a day.
Diazepam is a sedative-hypnotic drug in the class of drugs known as benzodizepines, which studies have shown can trigger aggressive behaviour.
Paddock sprayed a crowd below with hundreds of rounds. He took his own life before police broke into his hotel room, where they found 23 guns and 12 "bump stock" devices that can enable a rifle to fire continuously, like an automatic weapon.
Could this have been the reason the man went berserk shooting and killing tens of people while injuring hundreds more?
Read More: Other world news
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