Stephen Paddock's brother calls him 'piece of s--t' after hearing

The brother of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock called his shooter sibling a "piece of s--t" Friday, minutes after a Los Angeles judge ordered him to stand trial for felony possession of child pornography.

Bruce Paddock, 59, refused to talk about his criminal case with the Daily News but berated his now-dead brother and lashed out at his defense lawyer Peter Korn as they left a Los Angeles courthouse, with Paddock in a wheelchair.

"I don't need you talking and telling me not to talk. What a jerk," Paddock said, referring to the lawyer who minutes earlier succeeded in getting 19 of his 20 criminal charges dropped at his preliminary hearing. "Shut up."

Asked about his mass-murdering brother, he said, "I don't have a brother named Stephen Paddock. He's an entity that died a long time ago. Some piece of s--t entity once called my big brother."

In other comments after his hearing, Paddock proposed a dinner date with a female reporter and complained about his landlord trying to reject his rent and evict him.

He is due back in court March 16 for further arraignment on his one remaining charge of felony possession of child pornography.

During the morning hearing, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Anthony Keller said investigators found more than a thousand images of child pornography on 236 CDs allegedly belonging to Paddock.

The CDs were collected in 2014 from a business where Paddock was squatting in the Sun Valley section of Los Angeles, authorities said.

Keller said 90% involved children under the age of 12. He said one image was of a nude child tied to a locker room bench.

(Bruce Paddock, brother of accused Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock via LAPD)

He said other images involved Paddock "in different sexual poses."

When Deputy District Attorney Angela Brunson tried to move on from there, Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Kristi Lousteau asked Keller to explain what was meant by "sexual poses."

"There would be a bottle up his rectum," Keller said.

Paddock sat quietly through the hearing, often resting his elbows on the defense table with his chin in the palm of his hand.

Korn nearly succeeded in getting the whole case tossed, arguing the statute of limitations on all the charges had run out.

After much back and forth that seemed to be leaning in Paddock's favor, Lousteau ruled that the 19 misdemeanor counts of sexual exploitation of a child filed against Paddock in October were too old.

She then upheld the felony count and said there was "sufficient cause" for Paddock to stand trial.

Paddock was arrested last October, about three weeks after his brother opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, killing 58 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Bruce Paddock allegedly bragged about his ties to the shooter while a patient at an assisted living facility. That led officials to do a background check and find his active warrant for child pornography.

Authorities have yet to uncover a motive in the Las Vegas massacre, in which Stephen Paddock opened fire from his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay casino-hotel, killing the 58 people and injuring more than 700.

Amid their investigation, detectives also uncovered "several hundred images of child pornography" on Stephen Paddock's computer.