MGM is starting to release some of their recorded communications, through this link. https://www.today.com/video/las-vegas-shooting-new-audio-captures-first-shots-fired-1069738563795
NBC didn’t play the complete unedited radio recordings, just the beginning at 9:59.The SWAT team got there 19 minutes later.
The maintenance worker radioed to his superiors and said, “Call the Police.” MGM allowed this employee to interview and provide this information to NBC News exclusively. While they may say “we cannot comment on an ongoing investigation” they are also working on their PR campaign in other ways, like this.
I want to hear the rest of the recorded information that NBC has now, it should reveal if Mandalay employees actually did call the cops a full 5 min. before the shooter started killing people in the crowd.
Wow, that’s interesting.
I actually think the response time of the LVPD was pretty damn good. They appear to have had officers on the scene and apparently on the 32nd floor very quickly considering all of the many chaotic factors in play.
I know that’s not a popular opinion, and I know a lot of people are going to squabble over the 72 minutes before they actually breached the room.
But I think you have to give them the benefit of the doubt at this point, based on the info we have so far. By the time they got to the 32nd floor, the shooting was over, and they were facing a long hallway out of which some nutball had already shot a couple hundred rounds of quasi-automatic gunfire.