The Des Moines Register

The shooter in Sunday's massacre in Las Vegas was born in Iowa, news media in eastern Iowa have confirmed.

Television station KWQC and the Clinton Herald reported that they obtained Stephen Paddock's birth certificate, which recorded his birth at a Clinton hospital in 1953. The document said his family lived in Clinton at the time.

Stephen Craig Paddock, 64, has been identified by police as the gunman responsible for killing 58 and injuring 527 during a country music concert in Las Vegas. He turned a gun on himself as police approached.

The 1952 wedding in Reno, Nevada, of Paddock's parents, Benjamin Paddock and Delores Hudson, was announced in the Fort Madison Evening Democrat newspaper in southeast Iowa. The announcement identifies them as Chicago residents. Paddock's birth certificate lists the birthplace of Paddock's mother as Nauvoo, Illinois, which is on the opposite side of the Mississippi River from Fort Madison.

Stephen's brother Eric told reporters in Florida this week that he and Stephen Paddock have two brothers, Bruce and Patrick. Their mother also lives in Orlando.

The family left Iowa sometime in the 1950s, landing eventually in Arizona. Benjamin Paddock was taken into custody in 1960, when Stephen was 7, for a string of bank robberies, essentially leaving the boys fatherless. Benjamin Paddock spent years on the lam in the late 1960s and 1970s, and at one point earned a spot on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list. He died in 1998.

In Florida, Eric Paddock this week choked back tears while speaking with reporters as he wondered aloud if there was something he could have done to stop his brother.

"This is what I'll carry for the rest of my life: Had I called him back instead of texting, would I have heard something in his voice? Would he have given up something? I don’t know. I can't say," Paddock said, referring to a text he got from his brother after Hurricane Irma asking if their mom was OK. "That’s what I'm going to carry for the rest of my life, that maybe I could have intervened."

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