FRASER, Mich. – A Michigan man made a chilling discovery Thursday when he realized Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock was a former school classmate.
Howard Badeker now lives in Fraser, but he went to school in Sun Valley, California.
Badeker said he used to live in Las Vegas. After the mass shooting Sunday night, he was busy checking on his son and sister who live in Las Vegas. They are OK.
He said the name of the shooter sounded familiar to him, but he didn't realize the connection until a news report mentioned the high school Paddock attended.
Badeker said he was eating dinner when he stopped to look at his high school yearbook. It was then that he realized he went to school with Paddock and even played on the tennis team with him.
"There was my yearbook with the picture in it," Badeker said.
He said nothing about Paddock in high school stood out to him, but his wife thinks the connection is eerie and too close.
"They were on the same page," she said.
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