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Police say they are trying to determine whether Las Vegas gunman acted alone

LAS VEGAS - The girlfriend of the gunman who killed 58 people at a country music festival in Las Vegas broke her silence Wednesday and denied advance knowledge of the attack, saying that she knew Stephen Paddock as a "kind, caring, quiet" man and that she was devastated by the violence.

As President Donald Trump and the first lady visited victims and first responders in Las Vegas, federal investigators interviewed Marilou Danley in Los Angeles, hoping Paddock's live-in girlfriend might be able to help solve the mystery of why Paddock, 64, opened fire on the festival crowd Sunday night and then killed himself.

But Danley, who

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