As I’ve mentioned a few times, I live about an hour and a half from Vegas, so I’m there a lot.
Every time I think about the shooting (which to be perfectly honest, is any time I drive by the Mandalay) I am equally shocked and disheartened by the feeling that we really don’t know much…
When it first happened, speculation ran wild. Conspiracy theories filled the internet. Now, over 9 months later, we rarely hear much about it… but have few more answers than we did then.
New footage has been released this week, and while it does little to answer any of our questions, it does lend a shocking new perspective to the tragedy.
Police release 911 calls, video from Las Vegas shooting | https://t.co/8ViAQ3xwzd
— Ashley “Kimber” D. (@RedIsTheNewPunk) June 7, 2018
Harrowing scenes of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history were released Wednesday as videos from the roof of Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Hotel captured the chaos that ensued during and after the gunfire.
Las Vegas released the surveillance footage from the Oct. 1 massacre. The video cameras had already been pointed toward the Route 91 Harvest Festival when gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd killing 58 people and wounding hundreds more.
The cameras recorded the packed crowd as Jason Aldean was performing on stage and then the immediate hysteria of people running for the exits while others were being struck by bullets.
The video then shows some concertgoers attempting to lead others out through the exits. Others are ducking from shots while trying to escape.
The footage appears to detail the trouble concertgoers had leaving the area and the tough time police had responding and trying to help people get out as bullets rained down.
Police have released key documents over the last few months detailing police response to the shooting and the movements of Paddock before his atrocity.
Heartbreaking…
As of now, I still don’t feel we have the answers we deserve about what exactly happened that terrible night.
…maybe someday we will.