Vegas shooter showed off his ‘gun room’ to houseguest
Mass killer Stephen Paddock once gave an acquaintance a tour of his Nevada home, where he made sure to point out his “gun room” – and stressed that firearms shouldn’t fall into the hands of “the wrong people,” according to a report.
Adam Le Fevre — who was in a relationship with the sister of Marilou Danley, Paddock’s partner – said he visited the future mass killer’s two-bedroom home, where he learned about his obsession with guns.
“As we walked through that small area, Steve said, ‘Bedroom … sitting room … and gun room …’ Aah, gunroom?” Le Fevre told Australian news program “A Current Affair,” news.com.au reported.
“And he said, ‘Well, most people in the US have firearms and they need to be protected, and of course you don’t want firearms falling into the hands of the wrong people,’” he said.
“Retrospectively, I wish I’d have picked up on that earlier,” he added.
Le Fevre said he did not get to actually see the guns, but realized they were clearly an integral part of Paddock’s life.
“It never occurred to me that he was planning violence against anyone,” he said.
Le Fevre said he was introduced to Paddock in 2013 when they both traveled to the Philippines. He later met up with him on a trip to Vegas.
“Steve was very generous because of his success in high rolling. I would say I had no reason not to like him,” Le Fevre said.
But then came the news about the massacre.
“The first reaction was shock, disbelief and then, of course, not long after I realized I had this association with this terrible, terrible tragedy,” he said.
“It is a very chilling thought to know that the person that is at the center of the world’s largest story at the moment was somebody that I knew, somebody that I was welcomed into their home, into their family, into their life,” he added.
“Not in my wildest dreams … would I have ever thought that anybody could do this, let alone someone who I — at the time — had the pleasure to meet.”
Le Fevre said Paddock became very defensive when asked about the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.
“I raised that question with Steve and it’s something that he came back at me with an incredible degree of vigor,” he said.
“He was very strict and very firm on the fact that it’s a right. It’s the freedom of every American to participate, to own a gun and use it … when need be. I was shocked. There was no compassion in regard to my question.”
As investigators have noted, Le Fevre said it took “military precision” to plan for the attack.
“With Stephen Paddock, that doesn’t surprise me because everything he did seemed to be with precision,” he said.
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Le Fevre also said Paddock described himself as a “professional gambler.”
“‘I operate with $1.5 million to $2 million a year and that can generate me anywhere between $200,000 to $300,000 a year,’” he said Paddock told him. “He had no qualms in telling me of the millions that he’d used.”
Le Fevre said he “without a doubt” believed Danley when she insisted that she knew nothing about what Paddock had been planning.
“I know Marilou and the family well enough. All of them are very loving, a very good Catholic family,” he said. “I believe if she had the slightest inkling something was not right, of of what’s occurred, she would have shared that with her family.”