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Off-duty paramedic, sprang into action to save his brother. >> reporter: the real moment i realized twats gunshots when i heard my brother say i got hit. and i turned around and i saw him coughing up blood. >> reporter: using a piece of plastic and some band-aids to cover his chest wound. sonny melton grabbed his wife, heather, and was ushering her to safety when he was shot in the back. he died trying to save her. >> most people started scattering and climbed the fence. i had to stay with my bu...

>> breach, breach, breach. >> swat officers did move in, find the gunman had already killed himself. the question haunting investigators and victims this morning is why. why did a man, described as a retired accountant with no known history or next to terror groups or hate groups suddenly arm himself with an arsenal of largely military style weapons and open fire from a hotel window. the answer is proving elusive at this hour. what are you hearing? you dont hear a lot of friends of the shooter, ...

Really the same picture thats emerging from the neighbors and gunmans brother. theyre expressing bewilderment the 64-year-old man who seemed to keep to himself and spent much of his time at casinos set up the arsenal in his mandalay bay hotel room and massacred more than 50 people. now heres what we know about the shooter, stephen paddock. he was 64 years old, a retired accountant, a multimillionaire according to his brother. hes twice divorced with no children. he did gamble frequently. get thi...

Suggested some type of motives, why did he haarm himself with a arsenal of weapons. we dont know. >> were also hearing from the brother of the las vegas gunman. he says he is absolutely dumbfounded. listen to eric paddock, addressing reporters outside his orlando area home. >> its like an asteroid fell out of the sky. we have no -- he hasnt -- you know, now its -- last time i talked to him he texted me to ask how my mom was after he didnt have power for five days in the neighborhood. he talked t...

In a large suite. finding another 19 weapons at a home in nearby mesquite. >> additional firearms, some explosives and several thousand rounds of ammo, along with some electronic devices we are evaluating at this point. >> investigators believe the guns were purchased legally. according to law enforcement, an initial report suggests at least one rifle was altered to function as an automatic weapon. a gun shop owner in utah is certain he sold a shotgun to paddock earlier this year. >> he didnt se...

Gunshots when i heard my brother say i got hit. i turned around and saw him coughing up blood. >> reporter: using a piece of plastic and band-aids to cover his chest wound. ushering his wife to safety, he was shot in the back and died trying to save her. >> most people climbed the fence. i had to stay with my body. >> reporter: his friend was shot three times in the chest. >> we got him over the fence once the fire stopped and slid him under a stage so we were safe. >> reporter: vanessa, an off-...

>> absolutely not. as far as i know. once again. nothing like that. he was a wealthy guy. he liked to play video poker. he went on cruises. he sent his mother cookies. big huge crazy boxes of cookies and stuff. >> paddock, the brother of stephen paddock, the 64-year-old shooter who committed this massacre in las vegas. lets get insight from charles ramsey. a cnn law enforcement analyst and police chief and philadelphia chief commissioner. whats your reaction to the comments to the words we just ...

>> ive just been handed new reporting by the associated press which i want to share with you though we have not matched this report iing at msnbc and n news. the brother of the shooting said see the f stephen craig paddock was a big spender at the casinos and often received free meals and rooms. his brother said he never showed signs he could be violent and owned several guns but never collected firearms. he described the wealth of his multimillionaire now dead brother as substantial. said it in...

Registered with faa but not up to date on medical certification meaning he couldnt legally fly a plane. eric paddock is still baffled at this that ended in deaths of people. >> i mean hes never even drawn his gun. it makes no sense. hes never hit anybody. and s.w.a.t. teams found him dead when they got in his police rom. police dont believe there are any other shooters and interviewing to find out more. >> thank you very much. ken law is live for us near the killers home in the mess kiqui comm...

We have that sound. but again, eric paddock was shocked that his brother might have been involved in this. he said he was just a guy. take a listen. >> our condolences to everyone. we just dont understand. its like i said, an asteroid just fell out of the sky. we have no reason, rhyme, rational, excuse. theres just nothing. >> so why did paddock open fire on a concert killing 58 and injuring more than 500 others? authorities are trying to piece together a motive but so far it is slow going. so f...