Authorities in the United States are still trying to determine why a 64-year-old man opened fire on a country music festival in Los Vegas on Monday.
It is the deadliest attack in US history.
Stephen Paddock opened fire, killing 59 people and injuring over 515 before killing himself.
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Ray White spoke to clinical psychologist Hayden Knibbs, chief psychologist in the police investigative psychology section.
The individual committing this type of a crime at a point starts to feel very frustrated or very angry because of some sort of challenge that is happening in their life, they normally feel quite wronged.
— Hayden Knibbs, clinical psychologist
At this stage, they are classically unable to deal with these emotions and because of it, they build up more frustration - and then fighting back becomes a viable option.
— Hayden Knibbs, clinical psychologist
In fact there is a lot of similarities that we see in the process akin to suicide...a lot of the time these types of perpetrators are very isolated.
— Hayden Knibbs, clinical psychologist
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