The security guard got there within ten minutes. Paddock had jammed the stairway doors, otherwise he would have gotten their sooner. He saw the guard on his surveillance camera and shot him through the door, then shot himself because there were no more shots after the guard was shot.
The guard stopped it just by showing up. Paddock was a total coward, obviously, and he didn’t want to take a chance on engaging anyone who could shoot back.
the security guard story is still sketch. we’ve been given a couple different versions.
I have wondered if the hotel could have cut the power to his room or turned on the sprinklers....
There’s that blocked stairway story again. What was blocking the way? We’ve yet to hear of anything. An ailing 64 year old couldn’t have blocked them so much that a 20 something year old security guard or several cops couldn’t get through. The door opens into the stairwell so the blockage would be on the stairwell side. What, after sprinting up 32 floors, they merely turned around, ran up another set of stairs, waited for the elevator and came back down on it? How much time did that waste?
Security guard was there in 4 minutes. That is key to understanding how the shooter was put down.
If he hasn't he could have killed perhaps another 100.
It makes no sense that he killed himself what would have been worse than a shot to the head? Why would he have stopped shooting until he was killed?