Pull quote 1: Pull quote 2: Las Vegas — The quest by police to comprehend why a retiree shot 58 people to death in Las Vegas has turned to the gunman’s girlfriend, who has flown back to the US from the Philippines facing investigators’ questions about what she knew of his motives. Stephen Paddock, who killed himself moments before police stormed the hotel suite he had transformed into a sniper’s nest on Sunday night, left no clear clues as to his reasons for staging the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. Law enforcement authorities are hoping to obtain some answers from the woman identified as Paddock’s live-in companion, Marilou Danley, who Clark County sheriff Joseph Lombardo called a "person of interest" in the investigation. Danley boarded a Philippine Airlines passenger jet in Manila, where she had traveled to before the shooting rampage, for a non-stop flight to Los Angeles International Airport, landing there as scheduled on Tuesday night. A police official in Ma...
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