[DOGHEAD]

My opinion is that this is obviously a planned leak.
2 former FBI officials have been briefed. Why?
and
the first thing they do is contact NBC?

This is ridiculous.

One thing that bothers me:
The unarmed guard identified the room where the shooting was coming from and was wounded.
THEN
a whole hour elapses.
THEN
they breach the door and go in and find the man dead.

The sheriff said that there were at least 8 other cops right there nearly at the same time the unarmed guard was hit. It took a whole hour for SWAT to get in position?
we have an active shooter spraying people and it takes an additional hour to breach the door? I mean I wasn’t there , but that seems like a big risk to leave that guy inside that room for a whole hour.

[MMaschin]

The sheriff said that there were at least 8 other cops right there nearly at the same time the unarmed guard was hit. It took a whole hour for SWAT to get in position? we have an active shooter spraying people and it takes an additional hour to breach the door? I mean I wasn’t there , but that seems like a big risk to leave that guy inside that room for a whole hour.


They covered that last night in the press briefing. Police arrived on the floor right after the guard was shot, but the shooting had stopped. So, at that time there was no 'active shooter'. The swat team searched and evacuated adjoining floors, before they breached the shooters room. When they found Paddock, it appeared that he had been dead for a while.

It appears that Paddock killed himself soon after shooting the guard. Because that is when the shooting stopped. This bothers me a bit, why stop shooting, and kill yourself, when you still have, time, ammunition, and targets? I just find that strange.

[piasa]

He’d stopped shooting. That hour of waiting was after the last shot. Then all being quiet they were reasonably sure he’d killed himself. So then it was time to make sure there were no boobytraps.

[21twelve]

“...we have an active shooter spraying people and it takes an additional hour to breach the door?”

Maybe the security guard heard the single shot, then no more shooting and they figured he killed himself. Regardless, with no more shooting it isn’t so urgent anymore. So then they can bring in the bomb sniffing dogs, cameras, infrared, etc. to see if there is a device that will blow that half of the hotel off when they enter. Or - making sure all the guests are out of that area of the hotel. I have no idea what actually happened either of course - or if any of that would be protocol.