Posted on 10/05/2017 8:18:32 AM PDT by marktwain
It was a heroic private security guard who stopped the mass killing coming from the Mandalay Bay Hotel.
In the timeline published yesterday, it was not clear if the security guard was accompanying the police, or ahead of them. Now we know. Undersheriff Kevin McMahill gave a briefing yesterday, 3 October, at 6 p.m.
In the briefing, Undersheriff McMahill details when the shooting ended. No more shots were fired at people outside the hotel after 10:19 p.m.
The information about the ending of the shooting is given between 3:17 and 5:30 on the video. McMahill releases these facts in remarkable agreement with what I concluded in yesterday's article.
The mass killer started firing about 10:08. He fired for 9-11 minutes and a dozen or so volleys. He stopped firing at 10:19.
Four officers were working the Mandalay Bay at another event. They formed a team and were approaching the room on the 32nd floor. A heroic security guard was ahead of the police. Three cameras had been placed by the mass killer. Two were in the hallway, one in the room looking out the peephole. The guard was advancing toward the room when he was shot. The shooting stopped, just after the security guard was shot.
The mass killer shot him through the door. Although wounded, he was able to give details to the police, completing the identification of the room.
We do not know for certain if the security guard was armed. Some are, some are not. It seems likely that this guard was, but we do not know as yet. It appears the mass killer killed himself at this time. There are no further reports of gunshots until the SWAT Team blew down the door.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
“One question I’ve not seen answered.... how many live rounds did this POS have left? IOW’s...was he really stopped, or did just run out of ammo?”
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The LV police said that he had plenty of ammo left.
Thanks for the mention.
Do those stock buffer springs suppress the bump stock efficiency?
BTW: Weren’t your shoulders rather sore after all those 7.62 rounds fired off?
My right shoulder may be a bit sore the next day but I don't really notice. My brother is older than me and he doesn't fire quite as many rounds as I.
I have always had a high tolerance for pain but for some reason most shoulder fired weapons haven't bothered me except for two. One was when I was out west and hunted elk with a 465 H&H Magnum. That thing really packed a punch. The second was the first time I hunted deer and had to use a shotgun. I had my old Mossberg 500 with a rifled barrel using 2 3/4" Winchester Partition Gold Sabot Slugs. I used nine rounds to sight in the scope and just pulling the trigger made me almost flinch after only two rounds and the next day my shoulder told me all about it.
I have never held any interest in those bump-fire stocks so have never used one but they were designed for those weapons so they work just fine.
Thanks for the response. Your experience with those was interesting to me.
How did the guard Jesus Compos react to their visit?
Okay. Thanks.
Ummm, the guard showed up at the door, the killer shot at him and then immediately killed himself, knowing that SWAT was not going to be far behind. Had the guard not gone to that door, the shooting would have continued. He was the ONLY intervening cause to make the shooter stop and kill himself. HE stopped the killings. There is no other way to see it. The killer had many more rounds and many more guns, and clearly planned to kill himself once he was found. The guard found him. Period.
Yep.
“”but he knew that every second and minute was critical in locating the source of the shooting and he went looking for the gunman/gunmen. WHAT A HERO!!!!””
That’s for sure and that must have been without much if any information on the catastrophe that was taking place down below. There wouldn’t have been much time in the timeline for him to have been given much information about that...We need to know more about him - where he was to begin with, how he ended up on the correct floor, age, former or retired LE, medical condition. They can knock off the speculation about the whole scene and give us some helpful information.
It’s possible I misspoke but other stories had “an unarmed security guard” who got shot in the leg with the bullet coming through the door”.
Possible, but still quite an assumption that "he clearly intended to kill himself"...... If he was ready to off himself, why even bother shooting through the door? How many easy targets were left in the kill box?
Anything is possible and saying he stopped the killing makes nice Press. I still respect the hell out of the guy - took guts to approach the door knowing that an enormous amount of fire power seemed to be in it.
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