10-12-2017, 08:01 PM
Today, the hotel ownership provided a new version of the timeline, suggesting there was no time for hotel staff to warn police.
Stephen Paddock opened fire on Mandalay Bay hotel security guard Jesus Campos and the crowd attending a concert nearby at the same time or within 40 seconds of each other, MGM Resorts International said in a statement.
That account differed from the updated timeline Las Vegas police provided on Monday, when they said Campos had been shot six minutes before Paddock opened fire on the crowd and killed 58 people on Oct. 1. MGM said on Tuesday the revised police timeline might not be accurate.
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo, who oversees the police department, on Wednesday defended the speed of the police response in an interview with the Las Vegas CBS television affiliate.
"No matter what that timeline was, the response was as quick as possible. I don't think the response could have been any faster," Lombardo said in a video posted on the station's LasVegasNow.com website.
The revised timeline police provided on Monday had raised new questions, including why Paddock ceased firing on concertgoers once he began, and whether hotel security and police coordinated as well as first believed.
MGM, which owns the Mandalay Bay hotel, said the 9:59 p.m. time when police said Campos was shot was derived from a hotel report created manually after the fact without the benefit of information the hotel now has.
"We are now confident that the time stated in this report is not accurate," MGM said. "We know that shots were being fired at the festival lot at the same time as, or within 40 seconds after, the time Jesus Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio."
Las Vegas police officers were with armed hotel security officers in the building when Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio, MGM said. Both groups immediately responded to the 32nd floor.
"We will continue to work with law enforcement as we have from the first moments of this tragedy as they work toward developing an accurate timeline," MGM said.
Sheriff Lombardo said yesterday that he'll be presenting a more comprehensive timeline tomorrow, Friday.
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Stephen Paddock opened fire on Mandalay Bay hotel security guard Jesus Campos and the crowd attending a concert nearby at the same time or within 40 seconds of each other, MGM Resorts International said in a statement.
That account differed from the updated timeline Las Vegas police provided on Monday, when they said Campos had been shot six minutes before Paddock opened fire on the crowd and killed 58 people on Oct. 1. MGM said on Tuesday the revised police timeline might not be accurate.
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo, who oversees the police department, on Wednesday defended the speed of the police response in an interview with the Las Vegas CBS television affiliate.
"No matter what that timeline was, the response was as quick as possible. I don't think the response could have been any faster," Lombardo said in a video posted on the station's LasVegasNow.com website.
The revised timeline police provided on Monday had raised new questions, including why Paddock ceased firing on concertgoers once he began, and whether hotel security and police coordinated as well as first believed.
MGM, which owns the Mandalay Bay hotel, said the 9:59 p.m. time when police said Campos was shot was derived from a hotel report created manually after the fact without the benefit of information the hotel now has.
"We are now confident that the time stated in this report is not accurate," MGM said. "We know that shots were being fired at the festival lot at the same time as, or within 40 seconds after, the time Jesus Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio."
Las Vegas police officers were with armed hotel security officers in the building when Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio, MGM said. Both groups immediately responded to the 32nd floor.
"We will continue to work with law enforcement as we have from the first moments of this tragedy as they work toward developing an accurate timeline," MGM said.
Sheriff Lombardo said yesterday that he'll be presenting a more comprehensive timeline tomorrow, Friday.
Ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/r-update-...&r=UK&IR=T