Report: Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock’s brother threatened to kill friend

Las Vegas killer Stephen Paddock’s brother once threatened to kill a friend in California, TMZ reported.

Bruce Paddock had been squatting in a San Fernando Valley home in 2014, when his friend Hector Cruz, the owner, accused him of tampering with machinery, the website reported.

When Cruz confronted him, Paddock allegedly said, “If you keep f------ with me, I am going to kill you and drop you in the desert.”

The 57-year-old Paddock also told Cruz, “Hit me like a man,” and punched his antagonist in one arm.

“I am extremely afraid of Paddock, who has intimidated me by his violent character and destruction of my business office and my service bay,” Cruz said in court papers, according to the website.

Cruz alleged Paddock liked to get high and sold methamphetamine and marijuana. His behavior is “extremely erratic and unpredictable,” Cruz claimed.

A judge gave Cruz a temporary restraining order against Paddock.

Stephen Paddock, 64, built a sniper’s nest in a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas strip Sunday night and rained bullets on more than 22,000 people at an outdoor country music concert.

He used high-capacity magazines and bump-fire devices, which convert semi-automatic rifles to near fully automatic rifles.

Fifty-eight people died. Just under 500 people were injured — either shot, trampled or hit by shrapnel.