re: Mass shooting on Vegas Strip discussion

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If they fired 200 bullets at the security guard, then why did it take the police so long to locate the shooters room? The security guard got shot like 6 mins or so before the people in the crowd got unloaded on.

Surely if someone fires off 200 rounds at you, you know where it came from if it were inside the hotel hallway.

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He didn't fire 200 rounds at the security guard, Jesus Campos.

They said that at last Thursday morning's presser. At Thursday night's presser, they amended it to say that the 200 rounds were fired at the first group officers, who were NOT the SWAT team, that arrived on the floor around 12 minutes after the shooting started.

According to Sheriff Lombardo:

Jesus Campos met the regular patrol officers who had formed a unit to take down Paddock, as they came up the stairs, and directed them to the room he was shot from. They went down the hall to approach Paddock's room, but Paddock saw them coming and fired 200 rounds through the door at them. The hall is pretty long, and they were probably walking slowly, so they were far enough away to retreat safely, which they did immediately. They didn't fire back because they didn't have a clear line of sight since Paddock was shooting through the door. They didn't know if he had hostages or a bomb they might hit. At this point, he stopped firing on the crowd, so they decided to wait on swat and just secure the floor.

Also, we don't see 200 bullet holes, because the top half of the door on the left was blown apart when SWAT breaches the room!



Preface to the next series of events:

What happens next depends on who you heard it from, but I'm going with the version that makes the most sense to me based on the timeline, and the leaked crime scene photos. As well as the fact Sheriff Lombardo and other LEs have all insisted Paddock was trying to escape. Additionally, a local Vegas reporter stated that she was told Paddock accidentaly shot himself in the lower abdomen while gathering guns, and then committed suicide.

Event story continued(partial speculation):

After firing at the officers, Paddock started trying to gather some of his guns together to try and escape. This is backed up by the leaked photos. In the picture with the 2 chairs pushed together to make a makeshift table, you see a stack of guns, and in the floor behind the chairs, an open suitcase surrounded by more guns, magazines, and other accessories.

During his scramble to escape, he probably picked up one of the guns that had been jammed in the shooting and it went off, hitting him in the lower abdomen. He fell against the table with the note for support, and then fell into a sitting or laying position. But probably laying because of the blood flow from his suicide.

This is backed up by the blood on his shirt, and the blood on the side of the table where the note was. All of the blood from his suicide went up his face, despite shooting himself in the mouth, he didn't even have blood on his chin. This means the blood on his shirt, and the blood on the table, had to come from somewhere else. This scenario also explains why his foot is under the gun at awkward angle, because he was already laying down when he killed himself.

The gun was up above his head because the officers kicked it away just in case he was still alive.

And the reason we don't see a second gunshot wound is because the leaked pictures were not intended to reveal any information we didn't already know. The only "new" information we got from the pictures was the note's existence, which I think was simply a mistake by the leaker. At the time the pictures were released, they still didn't know if he'd been shot by himself, an officer, or someone else. So the photographer was trying to make sure they did not release sensitive material like a second gunshot. Notice that all of the pictures showing Paddock's body purposefully miss a section of his body, the lower right abdomen.

Realizing escape was impossible because of how badly he was hurt, he then committed suicide to avoid facing the police.