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Police took 72 minutes from first emergency call to reach Las Vegas shooter [false]
foxnews ^ | 10/03/2017

Posted on 10/03/2017 3:16:33 PM PDT by Sopater

The Las Vegas gunman’s exact location took police 72 minutes to reach after the first 911 call.

Police received the first 911 call regarding Sunday’s shooting at the country music concert at 10:08 p.m. local time, NBC News reported. By the time, Stephen Paddock was done shooting, at least 59 people were dead and 515 injured.

Officers began their search for the gunman following the call and responders discovered the gunfire was coming from a window of the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino after seeing muzzle flashes, dispatch tape showed, The Mercury News reported.

Police began searching the hotel’s 29th floor before determining the gunman was on the 32nd floor, NBC News reported.

Authorities, however, eventually located the shooter due to the large amount of smoke from the gunfire, The Washington Post reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: fakenews; leo; lvmassacre; mandalaymassacre; paddock; stephenpaddock
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To: KC_Lion

[ My Sister was there, she was walking along the strip from cirque de ole and her husband wanted to make his way towards the Mandalay and the concert but she was tired and begging him to go back to the Tuscany Hotel.

She said she heard shots fired and then about five minutes of running towards the Tuscany she said she saw more police cars race down the strip than she ever knew existed. ]

OMG!!! I am glad she is okay!


41 posted on 10/03/2017 3:39:45 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: Dusty Road

Caution! Picture of shooter, it’s bloody.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/duplicates/741vq9/unconfirmed_photo_of_vegas_shooter_dead_graphic/


42 posted on 10/03/2017 3:40:41 PM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“I. DIDN’T. POST. THIS. THREAD.”

I know. I posted about the numerous naysayers that are posting now. Was intended to be in support of your post saying you did not post the thread.


43 posted on 10/03/2017 3:41:01 PM PDT by DOC44 (Have gun will travel.)
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To: jonrick46

The shooter came out the door of his suite, and shot someone in the hallway. There being no place to use for cover on the hallway, the normal officers had no choice but to hold in place and wait for swat.

The use of the term Keystone Cops here is ridiculous. Officers arrived at the hallway to the room relatively quickly and handled the situation professionally.

Other officer across the city were rescuing people and rendering medial aid as much as they could.

Officers handled this situation very well. They quickly cut off the hallway to his room so nobody would venture into a bad situation.

The swat team was at the room within one hour and ten minutes.

You have to plan for the breach of the exact location so that officers are not killed on scene.

They need to know the layout of the room, and exactly what they are facing.

Please that you anti-Cop rant and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.


44 posted on 10/03/2017 3:41:51 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: GraceG
Thank You Grace!

(Hug)

45 posted on 10/03/2017 3:42:12 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: Sopater
At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, maybe that is exactly what he did after shooting Paddock.

I thought of that at the beginning before we had as much info as we have now. I thought how easy it would be for a gunmen to barge in and take over a hotel room, fire rounds, kill the room holder and leave - penning it on the room holder. However we have all those guns that belong to Paddock & presume his prints on those guns. We also have the fact that the gunman was alive when LEAs approached the room and he shot through the door injuring a guard ... before the perp offed himself.

So there doesn't appear to be any question that Paddock did the deed.

46 posted on 10/03/2017 3:42:38 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: KC_Lion

I am so very glad that your sister and her husband are safe.


47 posted on 10/03/2017 3:43:14 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: plain talk
So there doesn't appear to be any question that Paddock did the deed.

I agree that it seems to be less and less likely all the time.
48 posted on 10/03/2017 3:45:15 PM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: MeganC
Thank You Megan!

So am I.

(HUGS)

49 posted on 10/03/2017 3:46:02 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I believe the shooting lasted about 5 to 10 minutes.

It was almost 2 hours before police entered the room.

Picture of dead Stephen Paddock showed blood had congealed. He had been dead for a while.

Why did one shooter, a 64 year old retired accountant with no experience in shooting, take 24 guns and an enormous amount of ammunition up to the room? Why did he modify the rifles? Why did no one in the hotel including cleaning service and maids notice the many guns?

Paddock also supposedly set up a tripod and platform for one of his rifles. He also set up cameras and linked them to his personal computer in the room.

Why did Paddock break two windows on separate sides of the suite? If he was the only shooter one window would be enough. Authorities said several weapons were fired. Why did he switch weapons?

Original reports said multiple shooters were involved.

No motive whatsoever. ISIS claims killer was a soldier of the Islamic State.

Many unanswered questions.


50 posted on 10/03/2017 3:49:00 PM PDT by detective
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To: Sopater
Gosh!!! 911 is realy Fast SARCASIM
51 posted on 10/03/2017 3:49:55 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: KC_Lion

Big hugs, my friend. Big hugs.


52 posted on 10/03/2017 3:54:29 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: KC_Lion

A few years back, while I was driving on the 15, I saw a stream of at least 20 siren-blaring police cars doing 100 mph before entering an offramp to the strip. It was up there with any chase scene in the movies. I found out later they were responding to a shooting at the bellagio fountains.

The lvpd treat violence on the strip as if it were a pending bomb explosion. They cannot afford to lose the strip to violence. The success and safety of the strip pays their bills.

And now that the worst had happened on the strip, it may be a devastating blow to the future of vegas.


53 posted on 10/03/2017 3:57:16 PM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: Sopater

I heard the recorded police scanner conversations.

They announced his room location between 13 and 15 minutes in, and asked for a “swat”.

It took a long time after that for the swat team to get there, but they already had a few people right there


54 posted on 10/03/2017 3:57:47 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Sopater
"By the time the police arrived at the room, had the shooter already been dead for nearly an hour? What was going on during that time? "

The article said when the cops arrived at the door to his room, he fired through it hitting a security guard in the leg, so he wasn't dead.

55 posted on 10/03/2017 4:00:38 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: narses
10:57 p.m.: Officers have locked down the hallway outside the gunman's room. I have “multiple rifles and plenty of officers,” an officer says over the radio.

The next 20 minutes are filled with confusion as false reports of additional shootings and a possible bomb threat pour in from all of the neighboring casinos. Officers are worried that the other reported shootings could be a diversion, but teams are sent to check out each potential threat.

That is an interesting entry in the timeline.

56 posted on 10/03/2017 4:04:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Sopater

The number one lesson on mass shootings is the first cop on the scene, either alone or with others MUST make entry to try and stop the killer. Its called suicide entry but it has to be done. That lesson was learned at Columbine.


57 posted on 10/03/2017 4:05:35 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Sopater
The New York Post reported that face book admitted releasing fake information on the Las Vegas shooting:http://nypost.com/2017/10/02/facebook-admits-it-promoted-fake-vegas-massacre-stories/

Anyone picking up this false information and spreading it would believe Fake Book lies and may be misrepresent it as they passed it on. I trust the information that came out as much as a weather forecast of promises of a politician.

58 posted on 10/03/2017 4:10:13 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Uncle Sam 911

Suicide entry???

LOL....

Yeah whatever...


59 posted on 10/03/2017 4:11:13 PM PDT by JP1201
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To: Secret Agent Man
Good questions, and I can't even imagine either what he would have been thinking. The barricades would have been very effective for the door, but SWAT could have placed shaped explosive charges on walls in adjoining rooms for dynamic simultaneous entry if needed. Man I just don't know though.

One scenario was that he was engaged by armed personnel early and he might have shot himself at that time. A different explanation was that he was shooting through the door when SWAT arrived, and that when they entered, they found him dead.

Some of the accounts were that he shot anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes? Why not more? If he wasn't dead, I would have expected him to keep on shooting until he was absolutely overwhelmed, which would have meant that many more than 59 people would have been killed, and many more injured because he had a lot of time, and still a lot of ammunition.

I can buy into a belief though that he was not going to be taken alive. My question is when he actually died? Early or later? An early death would explain why he apparently stopped shooting. A later death makes one wonder why he didn't keep shooting.

60 posted on 10/03/2017 4:27:41 PM PDT by Enterprise (Do away with all symbols of past slavery. Start with the Democrat Party.)
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