[mass55th]

"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.

[Enterprise]

"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."

Is it possible that the shooting where he injured someone at the door was the first time armed personnel arrived, and not later when SWAT arrived.