Bruce Paddock, 59, appeared in court Friday

The brother of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock has been ordered to stand trial in Los Angeles for possession of child pornography.

When questioned about his brother as he left a preliminary hearing in court Friday, Bruce Paddock, 59, declared 'I don't have a brother' and called Stephen 'a piece of s**t'.

Bruce was taken into custody after running from the police for more than two years for child pornography.

He was arrested three weeks after his brother Stephen opened fire at a Las Vegas concert - the deadliest mass shooting in US history.

In court, 19 of the 20 criminal charges against him, save for one felony possession charge of the child pornography, were dropped.

After his appearance, he remained mum on his case, but was vocal in dissociating himself from his brother.

'I don't have a brother named Stephen Paddock. He's an entity that died a long time ago. Some piece of s**t entity I once called my big brother,' he said according to the Daily News.

Bruce also complained about his lawyer Peter Korn to reporters.

'I don't need you talking and telling me not to talk. What a jerk. Shut up,' he said, speaking on his lawyer.

Bruce pictured above in October pleading not guilty to felony charges after he was arrested that same month, after his brother Stephen murdered 58 and injured more than 500

He was arrested in the assisted-living facility where he stayed and taken in after a complaint was filed against him for child pornography discovered by police in 2014

The hearing revealed that investigators found more than a thousand images of child pornography on 236 CDs that allegedly belonged to Bruce, according to the Daily News.

This is in addition to the 600 child pornography images found on his computer, according to police.

The computer and CDs were found in 2014 in a Sun Valley auto repair shop where he squatted in 2014 and left the content behind.

Los Angeles Police Department Officer Anthony Keller said that 90 per cent of the content on the CDs involved children under the age of 12 and one displayed a nude child tied to a locker room bench.

Stephen Paddock, 64, committed the deadliest mass shooting in US history on October 1, 2017

Some displayed Bruce in 'different sexual poses' which in some cases meant 'there would be a bottle up his rectum', Keller said.

Eyes turned to Bruce after his brother Stephen killed 58 and injured more than 500 in the slaughter on October 1, 2017 where he opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel in downtown Las Vegas.

Stephen shot himself in the mouth after the massacre. His motive remains a mystery.

After the horrific mass murder, media attention turned to the family of the shooter, setting focus on Bruce Paddock.

He was arrested in October 25, 2017 after his brother's attack.

He allegedly bragged about being related to Stephen in the assisted living center where he stayed, which led authorities to make a background check and arrest him, according the Daily News.

A 20-page criminal complaint was filed against him after the pornography was found in 2014. However police could not trace him because Bruce was evicted from the property he was squatting in.

Stephen opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Hotel in Las Vegas, shooting at concert-goers below before turning the gun on himself. His motive remains a mystery

Concert-goers flee the scene that saw 58 killed and more than 500 injured last year

The shooter perched in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and fired at the music concert guests below

An FBI poster from 1969 revealed that Bruce and Stephen's father Benjamin Hoskins Paddock was wanted for bank robberies

Police say the crimes happened between January 1, 2014 and August 30, 2014.

'Paddock had been squatting inside the business and after his eviction, the evidence was discovered. At the time of the initial investigation, Paddock was a transient and could not be located,' the Los Angeles Police Department said.

In the wake of the massacre Bruce told reporters he couldn't believe his brother was capable of such violence.

'I don’t know how he could stoop to this low point, hurting someone else. It wasn’t suicide by cop since he killed himself. He killed a bunch of people and then killed himself so he didn’t have to face whatever it was,' he said to NBC News.

Bruce is due in court on March 16 for further arraignment as well as a remaining charge of felony possession of child pornography.

Crime seems to run in the Paddock family. Bruce and Stephen's father, Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, was a notorious bank robber who was on the FBI's most Wanted List for nearly a decade, as displayed in a 1969 poster.