Vegas gunman transferred $100K, set up cameras at hotel room

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Some investigators turned their focus Tuesday from the shooter`s perch to the festival grounds where his victims fell.
A dozen investigators, most in FBI jackets and all wearing blue booties to avoid contaminating the scene, documented evidence at the site where gunfire rained down and country music gave way to screams of pain and terror.
"Shoes, baby strollers, chairs, sunglasses, purses.
The whole field was just littered with things," said Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt after touring the site Monday.
"There were bloodstains everywhere.
" More than 500 people were injured in the rampage, some by gunfire, some during the chaotic escape.
At least 45 patients at two hospitals remained in critical condition.
All but three of the dead had been identified by Tuesday afternoon, Lombardo said.
As for what may have set Paddock off, retired FBI profiler Jim Clemente speculated that there was "some sort of major trigger in his life -- a great loss, a breakup, or maybe he just found out he has a terminal disease.
" Clemente said a "psychological autopsy" may be necessary to try to establish the motive.
If the suicide didn`t destroy Paddock`s brain, experts may even find a neurological disorder or malformation, he said.
He said there could be a genetic component to the slaughter: Paddock`s father was a bank robber who was on the FBI`s most-wanted list in the 1960s and was diagnosed a psychopath.
"The genetics load the gun, personality and psychology aim it, and experiences pull the trigger, typically," Clemente said.
Paddock had a business degree from Cal State Northridge.
In the 1970s and `80s, he worked as a mail carrier and an IRS agent and held down a job in an auditing division of the Defense Department, according to the government.
He later worked for a defense contractor.
He had no known criminal record, and public records showed no signs of financial troubles, though he was said to be a big gambler.
Nevada`s Gaming Control Board said it will pass along records compiled on Paddock and his girlfriend to investigators.
His brother, Eric Paddock, said he was at a loss to explain the massacre.
"No affiliation, no religion, no politics.
He never cared about any of that stuff," he said outside his Florida home.
The FBI discounted the possibility of international terrorism early on, even after the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
Eric Paddock said his brother did show a confrontational side at times: He apparently hated cigarette smoke so much that he carried around a cigar and blew smoke in people`s faces when they lit up around him.