The girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman who shot dead 58 people on Sunday has said she had no idea what her “kind, caring, quiet” partner was planning.<\/p>\n
Marilou Danley’s comments came hours before police suggested Stephen Paddock had been living “a secret life”.<\/p>\n
They said he may have been planning to escape instead of shooting himself dead, but did not give further details.<\/p>\n
It is not yet known why he opened fire on an open air concert, committing the worst shooting in modern US history.<\/p>\n
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said in a press conference on Wednesday:<\/p>\n
But he said Paddock’s motivations and whether there were any possible accomplices remained a mystery. The FBI has said so far no link to terrorism had been found.<\/p>\n
“We don’t understand it yet,” Sheriff Lombardo told reporters, but questioned whether he could have accomplished his plan by himself.<\/p>\n
“You’ve got to make the assumption he had to have some help at some point,” he said.<\/p>\n
Ms Danley, who spoke to the FBI on Wednesday after travelling back voluntarily from a holiday in the Philippines, expressed shock at the “horrible unspeakable acts of violence” Paddock had committed.<\/p>\n
Paddock “never said anything to me or took any action” which she understood as a warning of what was to come, she said in a statement read by her lawyer.<\/p>\n
Ms Danley added: “I loved him and hoped for a quiet future together.”<\/p>\n
US authorities named Ms Danley a “person of interest” in their investigation and said they had made contact with her shortly after the shooting.<\/p>\n
Ms Danley voluntarily flew back to Los Angeles from the Philippines on Tuesday night to speak to the FBI, just over two weeks after Paddock had surprised her with a “cheap ticket” to enable her to visit her family.<\/p>\n
While there, he wired her $100,000 (\u00a375,400), explaining it was to buy a house.<\/p>\n
“I was grateful, but honestly I was worried it was a way for him to break up with me,” she said. “It never occurred to me in any way whatsoever that he was planning violence against anyone.”<\/p>\n