Here is where we learn that the cops returned fire with Paddock.
Certainly is odd that the esteemed members of the Fourth Estate have shown so little curiosity in arranging an interview with the security guard Jesus Campos and giving us his first-person account, given that he was the first to confront the shooter and got shot for his trouble.
One of the accounts I read said that when the SWAT team breached Paddock’s room and entered, that the adjoining room was locked from the inside and they had to in turn breach that room to enter it.
If Paddock had to break into the adjoining room of Brian Hodge in order to break the second window, then why would the SWAT team have had to breach the door? Shouldn’t it have already been busted open?
Or maybe Paddock didn’t have to break into Hodge’s room - perhaps someone who worked at Mandalay Bay provided him (or an accomplice) with a master passkey and they simply opened Hodge’s room from the corridor and walked right in. In that case, maybe the doors between the adjoining room and Paddock’s room were never opened at all during the entire shooting event, until SWAT breached the door.