Father Of Vegas Shooter From Sheboygan

The father of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock was born in Sheboygan and later became a serial bank robber and psychopath. Benjamin Paddock was born in 1926 — and more than 50 years later, the Sheboygan Press said the city’s police had no contact with him except for a poster showing that he was on the F-B-I’s Ten Most Wanted List. Paddock was put on the list in 1969 — he escaped from prison in ’71 from a bank robbery sentence — he was arrested in Oregon in ’78 for running an illegal bingo hall — and he died in 1998. His son Stephen Paddock killed at least 59 people and wounded 527 when he opened fire on a country music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort in Vegas Sunday night. Benjamin Paddock reportedly had several aliases, and newspaper columnist Don Bishoff said he once claimed to be a pro football player and wrestler, a Dixieland singer, and an auto racing crew chief — and as Bishoff wrote, “Some of that may have been true.”