It does appear to be the case.
This is infuriatingly confusing. Am I to believe that Paddock was in the hallway as he fired at Schuck? I mean, that's what we've got to believe since "rounds started coming down the hallway", right?
"Maybe that's enough time to get the first patrolman onto the floor but the first patrolman is not going to go knock on that customer's door and say 'What's going on with 200 holes in the door?'" Hosko said.
But this suggests that Paddock was inside his guestroom and shooting into the hallway through the door. I guess both can be true if Paddock's door was perpendicular to the hallway. Is that the case?
It does appear to be the case.
I believe if you check the pictures, the food service cart was in front of the smaller room (32105). The entrance to the suite (32104) had a double door and the bottom part of the left door (when facing the suite) is where all the bullet holes were found.... see the diagram in Post 13. This suggests that Paddock was in a prone shooting position when he shot the security guard and his shots would have been going down the hallway toward the elevator. What not known is where exactly Schuck was when he was referring to "started to go to the door to my left." If he was coming on to the hallway from some point on the right side of the hallway (when looking down the hallway from the suite toward the elevator, then his statement makes sense.
The clips showing the windows knocked out suggest he had a corner suite, so maybe the hallway was perpendicular.
This is infuriatingly confusing. Am I to believe that Paddock was in the hallway as he fired at Schuck? I mean, that’s what we’ve got to believe since “rounds started coming down the hallway”, right?
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Paddock had set up cameras outside the hotel room.
“if Paddock’s door was perpendicular to the hallway.”
In the schematics I’ve seen, the door to the main part of the suite was smack-dab at the end of the hall. If a camera had been placed in the peep hole, and I read that it had been, he could’ve seen the entire long hallway.
There was another door to the suite — a bedroom in it — that was on an adjacent wall, and across that hallway was a stairwell.
The building has three wings and Paddock had a large suite at the end of the wing, the double door to his room was the end of the hallway. So, if he fired through the door those rounds would tend to travel down the hallway.
My question: Forget the maintainence guy. Why was the sucurity guard there? Was he sent first because someone had called frantically about the jambed door? What did the security guard do to prompt Paddock to fire through the door? Did Paddocks room connect (was adjoining) with the room with the jambed door and the security was requesting that Paddock allow the people to pass through?
It seems like Paddock, for whatever reason, saw the security guard as an immediate threat. Otherwise, why not wait it out and the security guard would likely leave. Then he could get on with it as planned. Why shoot someone in the hallway bringing immediate attention to your exact location sooner? Unless there was no choice at that point.
Or...did a guest notice the camera hidden in the food service cart by Paddock and tell the security guard (possibly in person) that there is a pervert on my floor. The security guard then goes to confront Paddock and Paddock panics.