Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend returns to the U.S.; AAPI victims

Stephen Paddock and Marilou Danley

A LAW ENFORCEMENT officer told the Associated Press that the girlfriend of Stephen Paddock - the man who killed 59 and wounded more than 500 others at a Las Vegas concert - has arrived in the U.S.

Marilou Danley, 62, who lived with Paddock in Nevada, was met by the FBI at the airport after her plane from the Philippines landed.

Also, a Vietnamese/American insurance agent was identified as one of the people who was fatally shot and a Filipino/American who was wounded at the concert was recovering in a Las Vegas hospital.

Michelle Vo

Michelle Vo, 32, a Los Angeles insurance agent, only recently became interested in country music and was attending her first country music festival. She had just sat down with her new friends when the shots rang out. A second volley of shots hit her in the chest.

"She got hit and I turned and saw her immediately fall to the ground," said Kody Robertson, who met Vo that night. "She was literally right beside me, maybe two feet away." With the help of another concertgoer they carried Vo to a pickup truck that was heading to a hospital.

He later walked to the hospital where he waited hours to find out if his newly made friend survived. Thirteen hours after the carnage began, the medical staff told him that she did not survive.

Arthur "Arty" Andrade Jr. was running away from the concert grounds when he was shot in the stomach. His friend helped him escape when they fell. 

According to his father, his son said "The hell with this," and moved off the grounds on his own until he found an ambulance.

Arturo Andrade Jr.

"It went through his stomach," said Arthur Andrade Sr. "through the large intestine, and out his side. He was truly blessed."

Doctors said that his son was on the road to full recovery.

Late last night, the FBI met Danley at LAX and took her into custody. Late night TV news footage showed her in a wheelchair.

The Clark County Sheriff has said Danley is considered a "person of interest" hoping that she could shed some light on what could possibly by Paddock's motivation to commit this assault, the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. 

Paddock, reportedly had sent $100,000 to a bank account in the Philippines, before he checked into the Mandalay Bay Resort, across the street from the outdoor concert venue. It is not clear if the money was sent for Danley.

Danley’s LinkedIn profile reportedly listed her as working as a “high limit hostess” at Atlantis Casino in Reno between 2010 and 2013. 

She has a daughter from a previous marriage, according to her Facebook page, which has since been deleted.

An Australian newspaper, Brisbane’s Courier-Mail, reported Monday that Danley was an “Australian citizen originally from the Philippines.”

As expected, there were calls for some kind of legislation to keep guns out of mentally disturbed individuals or to limit the number of guns one person can own. (Paddock had 23 guns in his hotel room that he used as a snipers nest and 19 more at his home.)

In Washington, D.C., Republican Congressional members of the House put on hold legislation that would make it easier to buy and sell silencers and armor-piercing bullets. 

Also, as expected, Republicans and gun advocates said the same line that they've used too many times before: "Now is not the time ..."

They said it after Newtown. They said it after Aurora. They said it after Orlando and they said it after San Bernardino. They said it after John Kennedy was assassinated and they said it after Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were killed. And so on and so on.

Tell me: When is the right time?

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