The Las Vegas shooter's autopsy didn't shed light on his motive

The broken windows in the Mandalay Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, where a gunman fired from are seen on October 4, 2017 on the Las Vegas Strip, after a gunman killed 58 people and wounded more
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Autopsy results have been released for Stephen Paddock, the gunman who killed 58 people and wounded about 500 more in a mass shooting in Las Vegas in October.

The autopsy confirmed Paddock died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and also found he had anti-anxiety medication in his system at the time of his death. Authorities say it did not shed light on his motive for the attack.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.