The number of fatalities at the Mandalay Bay massacre has risen to 59, with 527 casualties, as news sources uncover that Eric Paddock was a $100 per hand video poker player who would spend between $10,000 & $30,000 gambling on the Strip.

The gunman responsible for the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history was a $100 per hand video poker player, according to a CNN interview with his brother.

The death toll has risen to 59, with 527 casualties, after Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old retired accountant from Mesquite, Las Vegas, locked himself in a hotel room at the Mandalay Bay resort where he indiscriminately opened fire on the 32nd floor, before turning the gun on himself.

Eric Paddock told CNN reporters, “He was my brother, and it’s like an asteroid fell out of the sky,” as he tried to fathom why his sibling would carry out such an act of carnage.