Police ‘Dramatically’ Revise The Timeline Of The Vegas Massacre

Authorities still have not identified a clear motive for the Vegas massacre, but there are new developments. However, these developments only give us more questions than answers.

In the initial timeline, police said Stephen Paddock shot Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos in the leg after unleashing the massacre.

They had credited Campos, who was shot in the leg, with stopping the 10-minute assault on the concert crowd by turning the gunman’s attention to the hotel hallway, where Campos was checking an alert for an open door in another guest’s room.

Scratch that. All of it.

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo “dramatically” changed the timeline Monday. Police now say Paddock shot Campos before opening fire on concertgoers below. Paddock shot him at 9:59 p.m. and opened fire on the crowd six minutes later. According to the report, Paddock “fired 200 rounds into the hallway.”

In a timeline released last week, investigators said Paddock had stopped firing at the concert across the street at 10:15 p.m., and the first police officers arrived on the floor at 10:17 p.m. and encountered the wounded Campos at 10:18 p.m., who directed the officers to Paddock’s suite.

This new timeline raises so many questions.

“Mr. Campos was encountered by the suspect prior to his shooting to the outside world,” Lombardo said at a Monday news conference.

 

Police officers who started searching the hotel after the shooting began didn’t know a hotel security guard had been shot “until they met him in the hallway after exiting the elevator,” Lombardo said. He didn’t say whether Campos notified casino security after he was shot.

A police spokesperson did not immediately respond to several follow-up questions from the Los Angeles Times seeking clarification on the new timeline.

 

Charles “Sid” Heal, a retired Los Angeles County sheriff’s commander and tactical expert, said the new timeline “changes the whole perspective of the shooting.”