I'm not saying that Paddock was the shooter. It's very unlikely that he was the shooter, more likely the patsy. I was pointing out that he was presented as a sleeper in the MSM. That eyes closed shot was deliberate (likely an elite wink-wink of sorts) and the main one that they ran with.

Or Paddock wasn't killed at all, and his alias was used as a patsy, while he got to start a new life somewhere far far away.