According the latest version from today’s press conference, the security guard did not try to break down the suite door.
The new version is that a door alarm from a room down the hall from Paddock went off, and the hotel radioed the security guard to go check the room. As he was in the hall looking at that room with the door jar, there was a burst of bullets from Paddock’s room down at the end of hall.
The security guard supposedly then retreated to the elevator bank.
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honestly that makes more sense. what unarmed security guard would ever attempt to go investigate rapid fire gun shots by himself?
He was up there investigating something else when the gun fire broke out and he was shot and retreated.