The girlfriend of the gunman who killed 58 people in Las Vegas over the weekend says she was not aware that he was planning violence of any kind – instead fearing that a trip to the Philippines he sent her on was a way to break up with her. 
 
 Marilou Danley released a statement having returned from her trip and spending much of the day being questioned by FBI agents in Los Angeles – with authorities searching for any clues that might point to a motive behind the mass shooting by Stephen Paddock. 
 
 Authorities had previously labelled Ms Danley, 62, a “person of interest”. The statement, read by her lawyer, indicated that she plans on fully co-operating with the FBI. 
 
 “I knew Stephen as a kind, caring, quiet man,” the statement read. “I loved him and hoped for a quiet future together. He never said anything to me, or took any action that I was aware of that I understood in any way to be a warning that something horrible like this was going to happen.” 
 
 “It never occurred to me in any way whatsoever that he was planning violence against anyone,” the statement added. 
 
 “I am devastated by the deaths and injuries that have occurred and my prayers go out to the victims and their families and all those who have been hurt by these awful events,” Ms Danley’s statement said. 
 
 Ms Danley returned to the US voluntarily – and has not been arrested – after what she said was a trip that Paddock, 64, had paid for. He had sent her to the Philippines to spend time with her family. 
 
 The statement indicated that Paddock had purchased Ms Danley a ticket roughly two weeks ago, and had urged her to go visit her family. He then wired her $100,000 and told her to buy a home for her and her family. She indicated in the statement that she was grateful for the money and excited to spend time with family and friends back home, but that she was worried that the money and plane flight were his way of breaking up with her. 
 
 “It never occurred to me in any way whatsoever that he was planning violence against anyone.” 
 
 Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend, Marilou Danley pic.twitter.com/3QgwMFLsaF — Chris Boyette (@Chris__Boyette) October 4, 2017 
 
 Marilou Danley’s lawyer reads statement on her behalf claiming Paddock told her he’d found her a cheap ticket to Philippines 2 weeks ago. pic.twitter.com/OSTLwNNMSf — World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) October 4, 2017 
 
 Ms Danley flew into Los Angeles from the Philippines, her home country, on Tuesday night and was met by FBI agents who took her out of a side exit to avoid waiting television crews. 
 
 Ms Danley was captured on footage broadcast by NBC News, being swiftly pushed on a wheelchair, using her left hand to keep a baseball cap pressed down on her head. A lawyer representing her told US media she was being treated as a witness. 
 
 As police and investigative agents scramble for clues to explain what led Paddock to check into a 32nd-floor suite in the Mandalay Bay hotel overlooking a country music festival, killing 58 people and injuring 489, they are increasingly hopeful his girlfriend of several years could help fill in some blanks. 
 
 The fact Ms Danley has suggested she knows little of his motive may come as a blow, but investigators will likely be trying to gain as much information about her interactions with Paddock and their daily life. 
 
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 1/15 People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gun fire was heard Getty 
 
 2/15 People carry a person at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after shots were fired David Becker/Getty 
 
 3/15 People run from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gun fire was heard David Becker/Getty 
 
 4/15 A handout photo released via Twitter by Eiki Hrafnsson (@EirikurH) showing concertgoers running away from the scene (C) after shots range out at the Route 91 Harvest festival on Las Vegas Boulevard EPA/Eiki Hrafnsson 
 
 5/15 People lie on the ground at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after hearing gun fire Getty 
 
 6/15 A man in a wheelchair is taken away from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after hearing gun fire David Becker/Getty 
 
 7/15 People stand on the street outside the Mandalay Bay hotel near the scene of the Route 91 Harvest festival on Las Vegas Boulevard EPA/Paul Buck 
 
 8/15 FBI agents confer in front of the Tropicana hotel-casino after a mass shooting during a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Reuters/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus 
 
 9/15 Las Vegas police run by a banner on the fence at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival grounds after shots were fired David Becker/Getty 
 
 10/15 An injured person is tended to in the intersection of Tropicana Ave. and Las Vegas Boulevard after a mass shooting at a country music festival Ethan Miller/Getty 
 
 11/15 Metro Police officers pass by the front of the Tropicana hotel-casino after a mass shooting at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Reuters/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus 
 
 12/15 A woman sits on a curb at the scene of a shooting outside of a music festival along the Las Vegas Strip AP/John Locher 
 
 13/15 A cowboy hat lays in the street after shots were fired near a country music festival in Las Vegas Getty 
 
 14/15 Las Vegas Metro Police and medical workers stage in the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard South after a mass shooting at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Reuters/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus 
 
 15/15 Sheriff Joe Lombardo (2-R) speaking during a press briefing in the aftermath of the active shooter incident on Las Vegas Boulevard EPA 
 
 In an evening press conference, Sheriff Lombardo called Paddock “disturbed and dangerous” as he provided further detail on the investigation. Paddock had fired continually for 10 minutes – injuring 489 people, a total reduced from the previous update of more than 500. Mr Lombardo said that 317 of those injured had been released from hospital. 
 
 Sheriff Lombardo said Paddock rented a room in downtown Las Vegas around the same time as an alternative music festival – Life is Beautiful – held between 22 and 24 September. Paddock rented a room through Airbnb at the Ogden hotel in downtown Las Vegas but Mr Lombardo said he did not know why. He said investigators have recovered items and video from the hotel. 
 
 For years Paddock had quietly stockpiled an arsenal of high-powered weapons while pursuing a passion for high-stakes gambling at Nevada casinos, where his game of choice was video poker, a relatively solitary pursuit with no dealer and no humans to play against. 
 
 Paddock had gathered 47 guns since 1982 and bought 33 of them, mostly rifles, over the past year alone, right up until three days before the attack, said Jill Snyder, an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. 
 
 “He was a private guy. That’s why you can’t find out anything about him,” his brother, Eric Paddock, said from his home in Florida. As for what triggered the massacre, the brother said: “Something happened that drove him into the pit of hell.” 
 
 Also, casino regulators are looking closely at Paddock’s gambling habits and checking their records to see whether he had any disputes with casinos or fellow patrons. In addition, investigators are examining a dozen financial reports filed in recent weeks when he bought more than $10,000 in casino chips. 
 
 It was in a casino where Paddock met his girlfriend, who was a high-limit hostess for Club Paradise at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno, Eric Paddock told The Washington Post. “They were adorable – big man, tiny woman. He loved her. He doted on her,” he said. 
 
 Employees at a Starbucks in Mesquite, where the couple lived told the Los Angeles Times that Paddock often berated Ms Danley in public. The Starbucks is the only one in town and is inside the Virgin River Casino. 
 
 “It happened a lot,” Esperanza Mendoza, supervisor of the Starbucks, told the Times. He would verbally abuse her when Ms Danley asked to use his casino card to buy food or other things inside the casino, Mr Esperanza said. 
 
 “He would glare down at her and say – with a mean attitude – ‘You don’t need my casino card for this. I’m paying for your drink, just like I’m paying for you.” 
 
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 FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, speaking at a cyber security forum in Boston yesterday, said investigators were “reconstructing the life, the behaviour, the pattern of activity of [Paddock] and anyone and everyone who may have crossed his path in the days and the weeks leading up to this horrific event”. 
 
 “This individual and this attack didn’t leave the sort of immediately accessible thumbprints that you find on some mass casualty attacks,” he said. Paddock had no known criminal history. Public records contained no indication of any financial problems 
 
 It is known that Ms Danley was in Asia on Sunday night when the attack happened, having arrived in the Philippines on 15 September. According to immigration documents, she left on 22 September then returned three days later on a flight from Hong Kong. She holds Australian citizenship and was travelling on an Australian passport. 
 
 Philippines immigration bureau spokeswoman Antonette Mangrobang said authorities there had been working with US officials. 
 
 “From the very beginning, we have been providing them necessary information that would aid their investigation,” she said. 
 
 Ms Danley’s sisters believe Paddock sent her away so she would not interfere with his plans. 
 
 Australia’s Channel 7 TV network interviewed the sisters with their faces obscured and their names withheld. They said they believe their sister could not have known about his ideas. They said Ms Danley was a “good person” who would have sought to stop him doing anything so staggering. 
 
 Speaking from her home on Australia’s Gold Coast, one of the women said: “I know that she don’t know anything as well, like us. She was sent away. She was sent away so that she will be not there to interfere with what he’s planning.” 
 
 She added: “In that sense, I thank him for sparing my sister’s life.” 
 
 It is known that Paddock travelled at least twice to the Philippines, where his girlfriend was born, according to a Filipino official. 
 
 The official said Paddock visited the Philippines in 2013 and 2014, around his birthday, staying for five to six days on both occasions. There were no immediate details available about those trips, according to the official. 
 
 Mr Lombardo said on Tuesday that the investigation was proceeding cautiously in case criminal charges were warranted against someone else. 
 
 “This investigation is not ended with the demise of Mr Paddock,” he said. “Did this person get radicalised unbeknownst to us? [If so]...we want to identify that source.” ||||| People pause at a memorial set up for victims of a mass shooting in Las Vegas, on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017. A gunman opened fire on an outdoor music concert on Sunday. It was the deadliest mass shooting... (Associated Press) 
 
 People pause at a memorial set up for victims of a mass shooting in Las Vegas, on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017. A gunman opened fire on an outdoor music concert on Sunday. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, with dozens of people killed and hundreds injured, some by gunfire, some during... (Associated Press) 
 
 LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the mass shooting in Las Vegas (all times local): 
 
 3:15 p.m. 
 
 An attorney for the Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend says she had no knowledge of any plans by him to commit a massacre. 
 
 Marilou Danley's lawyer said Wednesday she plans to cooperate fully with the investigation of her boyfriend Stephen Paddock. 
 
 Defense attorney Matthew Lombard spoke in Los Angeles after Danley met with FBI agents to discuss Sunday's carnage on the Las Vegas strip. 
 
 She returned to the U.S. Tuesday night from the Philippines, where she was visiting family. 
 
 While she was there, Paddock, a high-stakes gambler, sent her $100,000. 
 
 Lombard says she was not expecting the money and worried that he was breaking up with her. 
 
 — This version corrects that she says she had no knowledge of any plans. 
 
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 3:04 p.m. 
 
 The high-stakes gambler who opened fire on a Las Vegas music festival crowd asked for an upper-floor suite that provided a view of the concert site. 
 
 A person who has seen Mandalay Bay hotel records that have been turned over to investigators said Wednesday they show Stephen Paddock asked for the two-room suite on the 32nd floor when he checked in last Thursday. The room wasn't available until Saturday and he moved into it then and opened fire from it the next night, killing dozens and wounding hundreds. 
 
 The person was not authorized to speak publicly and disclosed the information to The Associated Press only on condition of anonymity. 
 
 The person said Paddock was given the room for free because he was a good customer who wagered tens of thousands of dollars each time he visited the casino. 
 
 —By Associated Press writer Ken Ritter. 
 
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 1:55 p.m. 
 
 Nevada gambling regulators are poring through records to try to find out more about the high stakes gambler who fatally shot 59 people attending a country music festival in Las Vegas. 
 
 Investigators with the state's Gaming Control Board are looking for any disputes Stephen Paddock may have had as a casino patron and for mandatory transaction reports he made involving more than $10,000. 
 
 Board chairman A.G. Burnett said in an interview that investigators so far can't characterize his gambling habits. 
 
 They're also looking for information about Paddock's girlfriend, Marilou Danley. 
 
 Burnett says board investigators can obtain records about players from casinos and their corporate owners. 
 
 He says the FBI also has access to that information. 
 
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 11:30 a.m. 
 
 A law enforcement official has told The Associated Press that the Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend is being questioned by FBI agents in Los Angeles. 
 
 The official says Marilou Danley was being questioned Wednesday morning at the FBI's field office in Los Angeles and had an attorney with her. 
 
 Investigators have hoped she could shed light on what drove her boyfriend, Stephen Paddock, to fatally shoot 59 people at a country music concert from his sniper's perch in a 32nd floor hotel suite. 
 
 The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation publicly. 
 
 A receptionist at the office of Los Angeles-based criminal defense attorney Matthew Lombard confirmed he was representing Danley but declined further comment. 
 
 Danley returned to the U.S. Tuesday night from the Philippines after a trip abroad that lasted weeks. 
 
 __ Associated Press writer Michael Balsamo in Las Vegas. 
 
 8:50 a.m. 
 
 FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe says investigators are busy "reconstructing the life, the behavior, the pattern of activity" of the man who killed 59 people at a Las Vegas outdoor concert. 
 
 McCabe was speaking Wednesday at a cybersecurity forum in Boston. 
 
 McCabe says investigators are also looking at anyone who may have come in contact with Stephen Paddock in the days before the shooting Sunday night. 
 
 Asked if investigators had determined why Paddock carried out the attack, he said, "We are not there yet." 
 
 President Donald Trump was set to arrive Wednesday in Las Vegas to meet with public officials, first responders and some of the 527 people injured in the attack. At least 45 patients at two hospitals remained in critical condition. 
 
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 5 a.m. 
 
 Officials say Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock had been stockpiling guns since 1982 and bought 33 firearms in the last year. 
 
 Jill Snyder, the special agent in charge at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, tells "CBS This Morning" on Wednesday that Paddock purchased 33 firearms, mostly rifles, between October 2016 and Sept. 28, three days before he opened fire on a concert crowd. The attack killed 59 people and wounded more than 500. 
 
 Snyder said authorities wouldn't get notified of the purchase of rifles, but would get notified if there was a multiple sale of two or more handguns in one purchase. 
 
 Snyder said Paddock had rigged 12 semi-automatic rifles with devices that allowed the guns to fire like an automatic weapon. 
 
 — AP writer Bob Lentz, Philadelphia 
 
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 4:15 a.m. 
 
 A Filipino official says Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock traveled at least twice to the Philippines, where his girlfriend was born. 
 
 The official said Paddock visited the Philippines in 2013 and 2014, around his birthday, staying for five to six days on both occasions. There were no immediate details available about those trips. 
 
 The Filipino official was not authorized to discuss the trips publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. 
 
 Immigration documents show Marilou Danley had been abroad for weeks and was in the Philippines on Sunday when Paddock opened fire on a crowd, killing 59. 
 
 A U.S. law enforcement official says FBI agents met Danley at the airport in Los Angeles late Tuesday night. 
 
 — AP writer Jim Gomez, Manila, Philippines 
 
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 3:30 a.m. 
 
 Employees at two Las Vegas hotels temporarily were using handheld metal detectors to examine bags in response to a man who had opened fire on an outdoor concert from a suite in a different hotel Sunday. 
 
 The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports visitors at Wynn Las Vegas and Encore had bags checked by security upon entry beginning early Monday. The newspaper reports fewer bags were checked Tuesday. 
 
 Both resorts are managed by casino magnate Steve Wynn. A spokesman for the hotels tells the newspaper that it initiated the screenings early Monday when police didn't know if there were multiple shooters involved in Sunday night's attack. The spokesman says they've returned to the practice of only scanning bags and guests when they "believe the need arises." 
 
 Beefed up security procedures are continuing throughout the resorts. 
 
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 1:45 a.m. 
 
 The Australia-based sisters of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock's girlfriend say they believe Paddock sent her away so she wouldn't interfere with his plans to go on a shooting rampage. 
 
 Marilou Danley's sisters were interviewed by Australia's Channel 7 TV network with their faces obscured and their names withheld. They said they were surprised to learn Danley had gone to the Philippines two weeks ago. 
 
 One sister tearfully said: "I know that she don't know anything." 
 
 The woman said Danley is "a good person" who would've stopped Paddock had she been there. 
 
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 1 a.m. 
 
 A nephew of Stephen Paddock's girlfriend says he's stunned by the actions of the Las Vegas gunman and didn't even know that Paddock was interested in guns. 
 
 Jordan Knights' aunt is Marilou Danley, a 62-year-old who recently returned to the United States from a weekslong trip abroad. The Australian man says he spent time in Las Vegas with Paddock and Danley just a few months ago. 
 
 Knights told Australia's Channel 9 from his home near Brisbane, "It seemed like he just looked after my aunty and that was it." 
 
 The 23-year-old said he didn't give Paddock another thought until he was identified as the gunman who killed 59 people and wounded more than 500 on Sunday. 
 
 He said that Paddock "didn't seem like he was the type of guy to do that." 
 
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 12:09 a.m. 
 
 The investigation of a gunman who killed 59 people at a Las Vegas concert now shifts to his girlfriend, who has returned to the United States from the Philippines. 
 
 Sheriff Joseph Lombardo says investigators are hoping to get some insight from Marilou Danley on why her boyfriend Stephen Paddock opened fire on a concert crowd from a high-rise hotel room. 
 
 Danley had been out of the country for weeks before the shooting. A law enforcement official says she arrived on a flight from Manila to Los Angeles where FBI agents were waiting for her late Tuesday night. 
 
 The official wasn't authorized to publicly discuss the matter and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. 
 
 On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to arrive in Las Vegas to meet with public officials, first responders and some of the 527 people injured in the attack.
– "He never said anything to me, or took any action—that I was aware of—that I understood to be in any way a warning that something like this was about to happen," the Independent quotes Marilou Danley as saying in her first public statement after her boyfriend, Stephen Paddock, killed 59 people Sunday in Las Vegas. Danley's statement was read by her lawyer Matthew Lombard on Wednesday in Los Angeles, where she was being questioned by the FBI, the AP reports. According to NBC News, the 62-year-old Danley said in her statement she was "devastated" by what happened in Las Vegas. "I knew Stephen as a kind, caring, quiet man," she said in the statement. While Danley's statement didn't provide a possible motive for Paddock's actions, it did explain why he recently wired $100,000 to an account in the Philippines, where Danley reportedly was at the time of the shooting. Lombard said Paddock sent the money to Danley and her family to "buy a house." He said Danley was worried it was Paddock's way of breaking up with her. Danley returned to the US on Tuesday night, and Lombard said she is cooperating with investigators.