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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 buddy. >> reporter: mike kronk rushed to save his friend, shot three times in the chest. >> we got him...

>> 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 don't hear a lot of friends of the shooter, what about family members? >> it's interesting to see what people are saying about him. he does app...

Really the same picture that's emerging from the neighbors and gunman's brother. they're 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 here's what we know about the shooter, stephen paddock. he was 64 years old, a retired accountant, a multimillionaire according to his brother. he's twice divorced with no children. he did gamble frequently. get this, his father was a bank robber who spent eight years on the fbi's most wanted list back in the...

Suggested some type of motives, why did he haarm himself with a arsenal of weapons. we don't know. >> we're 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. >> it's like an asteroid fell out of the sky. we have no -- he hasn't -- you know, now it's -- last time i talked to him he texted me to ask how my mom was after he didn't have power for five days in the neighborhood. he talked to her a week or two ago and then sent her a walker because she was having trouble walking. he ...

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 didn't set off any of my alarms, anything that i felt like there's a problem in any way, shape or form with ...