Vegas killer’s brother terrorized auto shop where he squatted
Las Vegas mass killer Stephen Paddock’s younger brother, who was arrested on child porn charges, planted hidden cameras around an auto repair shop where he squatted, according to a report.
Bruce Paddock was busted Wednesday at an assisted living facility in North Hollywood, Calif., after police found over 600 child abuse images on a computer he left at the garage, the Sun of the UK reported.
The sicko had squatted in the attic of the Sun Valley, Calif., garage since 2014 but was eventually evicted after becoming “violent and aggressive” with staff and customers, the paper reported.
Hector Cruz, the shop’s owner, gave cops the computer, but Paddock disappeared and police had been hunting for him until tracking him down after his brother unleashed his massacre.
“He put cameras up around the shop and nobody knew about it,” garage employee Brian Cruz told the Sun. “I think it was to control people or to watch people, I don’t know why really. It’s very weird.
“They took the cameras down now but you can still see where they were. They were inside and outside. They were covered so you couldn’t tell they were there,” he said.
Hector previously told KTLA that Paddock had threatened to kill him, according to the Sun.
The two men got into a fight after Paddock tampered with equipment and told the owner: “If you keep f—— with me, I am going to kill you and drop you in the desert.”
Another time, Paddock threatened to set the garage on fire with a gas canister.
“Yes, he was violent to workers and even to customers. He used to threaten people,” Brian said. “He had permission to stay here from my boss. He met him at a race event or something like that. He [Hector] is a good person and he just wanted to give him a chance.”
Brian added that after Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, “we were worried (Bruce) might come here and do something crazy.”
“To be honest, I’m nervous now — it’s all so crazy,” he said.
Bruce Paddock — who also faces 19 counts of sexually exploiting a child — is being held on $60,000 bail.
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